Last Week In AWS Podcast

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By: Corey Quinn

The latest in AWS news, sprinkled with snark. Posts about AWS come out over sixty times a day. We filter through it all to find the hidden gems, the community contributions--the stuff worth hearing about! Then we summarize it with snark and share it with you--minus the nonsense.

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Happy 20th Birthday EC2, You Beautiful Disaster
#735
Today at 10:30 AM

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 31st, with Corey Quinn. 

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AWS Lambda functions now support full IAM resource-based policiesAWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) now supports budget controls and finding revalidationAWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Cisco Security Platform and NetskopeAutomating filtered Cost and Usage Report exports with AWS Data ExportsAWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 supportHappy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI.AWS and DuckLabs: Building t...


London Gets an AZ, You Get an Outage
#734
08/24/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 24th, with Corey Quinn. 

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AWS CloudShell now includes a built-in visual file editorAWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports third-party models on Amazon BedrockAWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) RegionAWS Billing and Cost Management Introduces Managed Dashboards for Instant Cloud Financial VisibilityIn the works: AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and SĂŁo PauloAmazon Linux default SSM parameter will now track the latest kernelIntroducing public preview runtimes on AWS Lambda, starting with Node.js 26 and Python 3.15AWS and Amazon WorkSpaces recognized as a Leader in...


The Week AWS Explained Its Own Error Messages
#733
08/17/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 17th, with Corey Quinn. 

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Amazon EC2 introduces application status checksAWS IAM Identity Center supports one-click multi-Region option for new organization instancesAmazon S3 adds additional policy details to access denied error messagesAWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Jenkins and SonarQubeBurst to Region: Overflow AWS Outposts workloads to Amazon EC2Designing for failure: Building resilient systems on AWSAmazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you workIntroducing the next-generation AWS VPN Client with CLI support and admin controlsAWS Certificate Manager will discontinue email validation to prove d...


DynamoDB Does Vectors Now, Because Of Course It Does
#732
08/10/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 10th, with Corey Quinn. 

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Amazon ECR now supports image layers up to 200 GBAWS Lambda announces scalable network bandwidth up to 3,000 Mbps for functions outside a VPCAWS Security Hub Extended adds supply chain security as its 10th categoryOpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1 million token context windows on Amazon BedrockHow to understand and estimate combined AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced costsAmazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scaleRuntime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreAmazon Connect Service Quota M...


BGP, Oracle, and Other Things That Hurt
#731
08/03/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 3rd, with Corey Quinn. \

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Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logsAWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in GAAWS announces aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWSAWS Direct Connect now supports BGP route visibility on Virtual InterfacesAWS IAM Identity Center extends multi-Region support to Identity Center directoryAWS announces general availability of Policy-Based Routing on AWS Transit GatewayIAM Policy Simulator moves to the IAM console and adds additional capabilitiesAmazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports scaling down ingest capacity with...


New Tools, Ancient Failures, Same Old AWS
#730
07/27/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 26th, with Corey Quinn. 

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Amazon ECS now provides Action Logs for deployment and orchestration visibilityAmazon Managed Service for Prometheus supports 1.5B active metrics and 200K rules per workspaceAmazon SES introduces pricing plansAWS Network Load Balancer now supports Listener Rules for custom traffic routingAWS Organizations increases RCP quota to 2,000 per organizationAWS now supports automatic credit memo application preferencesAWS Secrets Manager now publishes secret update notifications to Amazon EventBridgeJVM memory, CPU, and classpath best practices for Java containers on AWSConnection pooling strategies in Amazon Aurora DSQLCustom OS installation n...


You Owe Your Country's GDP to AWS
#729
07/20/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 20th, with Corey Quinn. 

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Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces intelligent tiering for storageAmazon Cognito now supports importing users with password hashesIntroducing Amazon GuardDuty AI Protection for AWS AI workloadsAWS Organizations now applies account departure security controls by default for new organizations created via AWS Organizations consoleAWS Lambda announces self-managed code storageAmazon S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IAAmazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scaleAnnouncing Lambda MicroVMs: serverless compute environments with VM-level isolation and near-instant startupEliminating Java cold starts w...


United Solved IP Exhaustion, You Won't Believe How
#728
07/13/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 13th with Corey Quinn. 

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AWS Security Hub extends unified security management to Microsoft AzureAmazon EKS Auto Mode reduces GPU management fees by up to 60%Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26aiAWS Builder Center Now Offers Free Sandbox EnvironmentsAWS Security Hub now offers Network Scanning to identify publicly reachable resourcesAmazon Cognito now supports self-service provisioned API rate limitsAWS Security Hub adds impact analysis for exposure findingsBlazing a Trail: How Peloton Rebuilt the SDLC for the Agentic Era with Amazon BedrockHow United Airlines solved IP exhaustion w...


AWS Discovers ACME Isn't Just Roadrunner Stuff
#727
07/06/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July, 6th with Corey Quinn. 

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Announcing general availability of Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agentsAmazon CloudWatch supports creating alarms from log queriesECS Service Connect now supports Zone-Aware routingHow InterWiz reduced AI costs by 90% with Amazon BedrockAccelerate your infrastructure deployments by up to 4x with AWS CloudFormation Express modeAutomate public TLS certificate issuance with ACME support in AWS Certificate ManagerUpgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacksSafely Releasing Frontier Models to CustomersAccelerating government FinOps with Amazon QuickFour CVEs: AWS reads half your request, leaks the rest


Open Governance for MySQL Plot Twist
#726
06/29/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 29th, with Corey Quinn. 

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Amazon CloudWatch launches OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKSAmazon GuardDuty AI-powered investigations accelerate threat response (Preview)Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver now supports sharing DNS Views between AWS AccountsAutomate AWS Invoice Retrieval with New Programmatic APIsRun isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMsUpgrading Lambda function runtimes at scale with AWS Transform customHuntington Bank: Redacting sensitive data from 400M+ documents with AWSOpen Governance for MySQL: A Step Forward for the CommunityHow AWS and a local community organization built a developer engagement m...


MySQL 5.7 Will Outlive Us All
#725
06/22/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 22nd, with Corey Quinn. 

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AWS Marketplace announces AI-assisted product listingAmazon CloudWatch introduces Log Analytics for unified log analysisAmazon EKS now supports customer-routed control plane egressFree Network Bandwidth Amazon GameLift Servers is Here!AWS announces AWS Blocks, an open-source framework for composing application backends on AWS (Preview)AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EBS volume recommendations with additional performance metricsIntroducing AWS Continuum for security at machine speedAWS Management Console Private Access now works without internet connectivityAWS Security Agent announces support for Threat ModelingGrok 4.3 from xAI now available in Amazon BedrockAmazon A...


27 Security Bulletins and Other Bedtime Reading
#724
06/15/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 15th, with Corey Quinn. 

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AWS announces AWS Workload Credentials ProviderAnnouncing the public preview of AWS FinOps AgentIntroducing AI-Powered Cost Investigations For Cost AnomaliesAmazon CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 23 new query commands and functionsIntroducing Target Coverage in Savings Plans Purchase AnalyzerIntroducing the AWS Credits Detail PageAnthropic Claude Fable 5 on AWS: Mythos-class capabilities with built-in safeguards now availableNow available: Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by new AWS Graviton5 processorsTry the new console experience in Amazon Bedrock, optimized for Anthropic- and OpenAI-compatible APIsAWS Nitro Isolation Engine: F...


OpenAI on Bedrock and Other Strange Bedfellows
#723
06/08/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 8th, with Corey Quinn. 

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AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps tierOracle Database@AWS is now available in twenty AWS RegionsAmazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replicationAmazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.36Amazon SES now supports tenant-level suppression listsAWS Compute Optimizer now supports 32-day lookback for EBS volume and ECS service rightsizing recommendationsAWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now supports Athena and Redshift integrationAmazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports durabilityUnderstanding how backups work in Amazon AuroraOpenAI models and Codex on Amazon Bedrock a...


The Week AWS Remembered GovCloud Exists
#722
06/01/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 1st, with Corey Quinn. 

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Monitor AWS Budgets directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with new Budgets widgetIntroducing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for building your agentic AI applicationsOptimize costs in Amazon AuroraHow AWS DevOps Agent uses multi-agent reasoning to find root causesClaude Opus 4.8 is now available on AWSBest Practices for TCP Connection Management on EC2Introducing US-based, US citizen, 24/7 technical support for AWS GovCloud (US) customers: Your mission never sleeps, neither do weWell-architected best practices for software supply chain securityAutomate Amazon EBS gp2 t...


AWS and Oracle Together at Last, Apparently
#721
05/26/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 25th, with Corey Quinn. 

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Amazon Bedrock expands support for request-level usage attributionAmazon ECS introduces pause and continue controls for service deploymentsAWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in previewAWS Organizations now supports higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs)Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 is now generally availableIntroducing ExtendDB: An open source DynamoDB-compatible adapter with pluggable storage backendsNine Entertainment’s journey: Achieving 98% cost savings with Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for ValkeyAnnouncing updated retry behavior for AWS SDKs and ToolsAnnouncing AWS CDK Mixins: Composable Abstractions for AWS...


M3 Ultra Macs, Claude Platform, and 619 New APIs Walk Into a Bar
#720
05/18/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 18th , with Corey Quinn. 

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Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instancesAmazon EventBridge Scheduler adds 619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed InstancesAmazon Redshift launches RG instances powered by AWS GravitonAmazon Route 53 Domains adds support for 34 new Top Level Domains including .app, .dev, and .health.ENA Express for Amazon EC2 instances now supports traffic between Availability ZonesStreaming CloudWatch metrics to VPC-based OpenTelemetry collectors using LambdaHow HotelTrader cut inter-AZ cost 95% and latency by 49% with Valkey GLIDE on Amazon ElastiCacheIntroducing Claude Platform on AWS: Anthropic’s nat...


AI-Native Foundations and the CVEs That Love Them
#719
05/11/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 11th , with Corey Quinn. 

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Announcing Agent Toolkit for AWS — help AI coding agents build effectively on AWSAmazon CloudFront Announces WebSocket Support for VPC OriginsAmazon EventBridge supports data plane logging to AWS CloudTrailAWS IAM now provides higher maximum quotas for roles, role trust policies, instance profiles, managed policies, and identity providersAWS Marketplace now supports programmatic procurement with Agreements APIThe AWS MCP Server is now generally availableAnnouncing Valkey 9.0 for Amazon ElastiCacheQuery billion-scale vectors with SQL: Integrating Amazon S3 Vectors and Aurora PostgreSQLYou Wanted to Become AI-Native, and All You...


Bedrock Bags OpenAI, Q Developer Bags Groceries
#718
05/04/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 4th, with Corey Quinn. 

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AWS Management Console now supports settings to control service and Region visibility - AWSAmazon CloudWatch adds visual agent configuration to the EC2 consoleAWS Announces Amazon Connect DecisionsAmazon Connect Talent for AI-powered hiring (now available in Preview)Introducing Amazon EC2 R8in and R8ib instancesAmazon OpenSearch Service now supports index-level encryptionAmazon Redshift Serverless AI-driven scaling is now the default for new workgroupsAWS Cost Optimization Hub now supports CSV downloadAWS KMS now tracks last usage of all KMS keysAWS Lambda adds support for R...


The Week AWS Discovered JOIN Statements
#717
04/27/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 27th, with Corey Quinn. 

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Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports configuration of processors via AIIntroducing the Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway for hybrid Kubernetes networkingAmazon EKS enhances cluster governance with new IAM condition keysAttributed Revenue Dashboard Now Available in AWS Partner CentralAWS Lambda functions can now mount Amazon S3 buckets as file systems with S3 FilesAmazon CloudWatch Logs Insights introduces JOIN and sub-query commandsAWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java GAAmazon S3 Express One Zone now supports S3 InventoryAmazon S3 now supports five additional checksum algorithmsAWS Secrets M...


Multicloud Interconnect and the Great CVE Hunt
#716
04/20/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 20th, with Corey Quinn. 

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Amazon CloudWatch now supports cross-region telemetry auditing and enablement rulesIntroducing Amazon EC2 C8in and C8ib instancesAmazon Quick now supports multi-account sign-in within the same browserAmazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core are now available in two additional AWS RegionsAWS announces general availability of AWS Interconnect - multicloudAutomate AWS Cost Reporting with Scheduled Dashboard Email DeliveryIntroducing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 model in Amazon BedrockIntroducing Amazon Bio DiscoveryCVE-2026-5429 - Kiro IDE Webview Cross-Site Scripting via Workspace Color ThemeIssues with Amazon Athena ODB...


S3 Files and an AI-Powered Singing Rat Trap
#715
04/13/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April, 13th with Corey Quinn. 

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AWS Certificate Manager now supports native certificate searchAmazon S3 Lifecycle pauses actions on objects that are unable to replicateAmazon Bedrock now offers Claude Mythos Preview (Gated Research Preview)Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Zstandard (zstd) codec for index compressionAWS Secrets Manager console now supports custom input for AWS KMS keysAmazon Bedrock now supports cost allocation by IAM user and roleAmazon S3 starts rolling out new security best practice to new and existing buckets by defaultIntroducing AI-Powered Cost Analysis in AWS Cost ExplorerLaunching S...


S3 Gets Vectors, CloudFront Gets SHA-256, You Get the Bill
#714
04/06/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 6th, with Corey Quinn.

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Announcing Amazon RDS for Oracle on AWS OutpostsAWS Direct Connect now supports AWS CloudFormationAWS Service Availability UpdatesAmazon S3 Vectors expands to 17 additional AWS RegionsAmazon CloudFront now supports SHA-256 for signed URLs and signed cookiesAmazon CloudWatch now supports OpenTelemetry metrics in public previewAnnouncing compute-optimized instance bundles for Amazon LightsailAnnouncing managed daemon support for Amazon ECS Managed InstancesLeverage Agentic AI for Autonomous Incident Response with AWS DevOps AgentNavigating the NGINX Ingress retirement: A practical guide to migration on AWSOptimizing data transfer costs when using AWS N...


Aurora PostgreSQL: Now Free Enough to Be Dangerous
#713
03/30/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 30th, with Corey Quinn.


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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now available with the AWS Free TierAmazon EKS announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement and new 8XL scaling tier for Provisioned Control Plane clustersAWS Lambda increases the file descriptor limit to 4,096 for functions running on Lambda Managed InstancesThe AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now supports automatic query caching with ValkeyAnnouncing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL serverless database creation in secondsEnhancing auto scaling resilience by tracking worker utilization metricsAmazon CloudFront flat-rate pricing plans: new features and expanded capabilitiesIAM policy types: How and when to use...


S3 Turns 20 and SimpleDB Is Still Alive
#712
03/23/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 23rd, with Corey Quinn.


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Amazon Corretto 26 is now generally availableAmazon SimpleDB now supports exporting domain data to Amazon S3AWS CDK Mixins is now generally availableAWS Lambda Managed Instances now supports RustAmazon CloudWatch Logs now supports log ingestion using HTTP-based protocolAWS Lambda now supports Availability Zone metadataExpanding the BOX Program to Business Consulting and Advisory PartnersTwenty years of Amazon S3 and building what’s nextSynchronizing a Backup on-premises Db2 Server with Amazon RDS for Db2AWS and NVIDIA deepen strategic collaboration to accelerate AI from pilot to...


Beanstalk AI: The Resurrection Nobody Asked For
#711
03/16/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 16th, with Corey Quinn.


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Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces increased query concurrency and API limitsIntroducing Amazon Connect Health, Agentic AI Built for HealthcareAmazon Route 53 Global Resolver is now generally availableAWS simplifies IAM role creation and setup in service workflowsDatabase Savings Plans now supports Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Neptune AnalyticsAWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysisAWS Elastic Beanstalk launches Deployments tab with in-progress deployment logsMulti-party approval now supports approval team baseliningAWS announces pricing for VPC Encryption ControlsThe Hidden Price Tag: Uncovering Hidden Costs in Cloud Architectures...


The AI Broke Production But Please Don't Tell Anyone
#710
03/02/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 2nd, with Corey Quinn.

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Amazon Aurora DSQL launches Playground for interactive database exploration Amazon Redshift Serverless introduces 3-year Serverless ReservationsAmazon S3 now provides AWS source region information in server access logs AWS Compute Optimizer now applies AWS-generated tags to EBS snapshots created during automationAWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java now available in Developer PreviewAWS Trusted Advisor now delivers more accurate unused NAT Gateway checks powered by AWS Compute Optimizer6,000 AWS accounts, three people, one platform: Lessons learnedPetabyte-Scale Cost Optimization: How a Video Hosting Platform Saved 70% on S3...


Agents, Plugins, and AgentCore: AWS Has an AI Naming Problem
#709
02/23/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 23rd, with Corey Quinn.

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Amazon Bedrock expands support for AWS PrivateLinkAWS CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules eliminate alert fatigueAmazon EC2 supports nested virtualization on virtual Amazon EC2 instancesAnnouncing Amazon DocumentDB long-term support (LTS) on 5.0AWS Certificate Manager updates default certificate validity to comply with new guidelinesClaude Sonnet 4.6 now available in Amazon BedrockKiro is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsAmazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now availableIntroducing VPC encryption controls: Enforce encryption in transit within and across VPCs in a RegionMigrating...


Bedrock Throttling Guide: AWS Publishes Its Own Roast
#708
02/17/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 17th, with Corey Quinn.

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Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available in additional AWS RegionsAmazon Bedrock adds support for six fully-managed open weights modelsAWS Config now supports 30 new resource typesAnnouncing new Amazon EC2 general purpose M8azn instancesAWS Network Firewall announces new price reductionsAmazon S3 Tables add partition and sort order definition in the CreateTable APIAmazon Athena adds 1-minute reservations and new capacity control featuresBuilding fault-tolerant applications with AWS Lambda durable functions Simplify cross-account stream processing with AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDBAutomated Reasoning checks rewriting chatbot reference implementationMastering A...


Your Account Name Was There All Along (It Wasn't)
#707
02/09/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 9th, with Corey Quinn.

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Change the server-side encryption type of Amazon S3 objectsAnnouncing memory-optimized instance bundles for Amazon LightsailAmazon RDS now provides an enhanced console experience to connect to a databaseAWS Multi-party approval now requires one-time password verification for votingAWS Management Console now displays Account Name on the Navigation barStructured outputs now available in Amazon BedrockAmazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances with up to 22.8 TB local NVMe storage are generally available AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication for AWS account access a...


Bigger Pipes, Warmer Tables, Sadder IPs
#706
02/02/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 2nd, with Corey Quinn.

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AWS Network Firewall now supports GenAI traffic visibility and enforcement with Web category-based filteringMore room to build: serverless services now support payloads up to 1 MBIntroducing pre-warming for Amazon Keyspaces tablesManaging IP address exhaustion for Amazon RDS ProxyStrategies for upgrading Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL from version 13File integrity monitoring with AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Security Lake



Access Denied, Now With a Good Reason
#705
01/26/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 26th, with Corey Quinn.

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AWS on Customer Choice & MulticloudAWS Adds Policy Details to Access Denied ErrorsAmazon ECR Cross-Repository Layer SharingAmazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments (


AWS-Esque - What AWS Has For Us This Time
#704
01/20/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 20th, with Corey Quinn. 

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Unanchored ACCOUNT_ID webhook filters for CodeBuildAmazon EBS now supports up to four Elastic Volumes modifications in 24 hoursAWS Databases are now available on v0 by VercelAWS Lambda announces cross-account access for DynamoDB StreamsEnhanced Transactions view now available in AWS Billing ConsoleAWS Data Exports adds granular operation visibility for Amazon Bedrock model usageAmazon EC2 X8i instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors are generally availableOpening the AWS European Sovereign CloudAWS Organizations now supports upgrade rollout policy for Aurora and RDSProvision Oracle Database@AWS s...


tmpfs, Cost Cuts, and Other ECS Bedtime Stories
#703
01/12/2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 12th, with Corey Quinn. 


Impromptu Security Week
#702
12/22/2025

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 22, 2025, with Corey Quinn. 

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Automate java performance troubleshooting with AI-Powered thread dump analysis on Amazon ECS and EKSAmazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructureOptimize WordPress performance on Amazon EKS with Amazon FSx for OpenZFSAWS reduces publishing time for Carbon Footprint Data to 21 days or LessAWS Payment Cryptography reduces API pricing by up to 63% and introduces tiered key pricingKey Commitment Issues in S3 Encryption ClientsCoursera and AWS survey reveals how technology leaders navigate cloud and AI transformationAutomated extraction of compressed files on Amazon S3 u...


The Full Court EU Sales Press
#701
12/15/2025

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 15th, with Corey Quinn. 

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Exploring the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference FrameworkNow generally available: Amazon EC2 C8gb instancesAmazon CloudWatch SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocolsBuilding national foundation modelsNew report: Cloud “fundamental” for European national security and defenseAI Increased Productivity? Consider Hiring More Developers!IAM Policy Autopilot: An open-source tool that brings IAM policy expertise to builders and AI coding assistantsAWS and Google Cloud collaborate to simplify multicloud networkingExploring Optimize CPU feature on Amazon RDS for SQL ServerPrometheus MCP Server: AI-Driven Monitoring Intelligence for AWS U


Corey Quinn Crashes Out
#700
12/08/2025

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 8th, with Corey Quinn.

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Introducing Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver for secure anycast DNS resolution (preview)Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibilityAWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloudIntroducing AWS Transform custom: Crush tech debt with AI-powered code modernizationAmazon CloudWatch introduces unified data management and analytics for operations, security, and complianceAmazon EC2 P6e-GB300 UltraServers accelerated by NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 are now generally availableIntroducing AWS AI FactoriesIntroducing AWS DevOps Agent (preview), frontier agent for operational excellenceAmazon S3 Storage Lens adds performance metrics, support for...


Welcome to re:Invent, Where the Roadmap Is Made Up and the Quotas Don't Matter
#699
12/01/2025

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 1st, with Corey Quinn. 

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Protect sensitive data with dynamic data masking for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQLAmazon CloudFront announces support for mutual TLS authenticationAmazon EC2 announces interruptible Capacity ReservationsIntroducing guidelines for network scanningPractical implementation considerations to close the AI value gapEverything you don’t need to know about Amazon Aurora DSQL: Part 4 – DSQL componentsSimplify data integration using zero-ETL from self-managed databases to Amazon RedshiftAutomatic quota management is now AWS Service Quotas adds support for automatic quota managementAnnouncing Amazon Route 53 Accelerated Recovery for managing public DNS recordsAnnouncing Unused NAT Gateway Recom...


From Blackwell Ultra to "aws login": Chaos Reigns at Every Layer
#698
11/24/2025

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 24th, with Corey Quinn. 

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Announcing agreement EventBridge notifications for AWS MarketplaceNetwork Load Balancers now support Weighted Target GroupsAWS NAT Gateway now supports regional availabilityAWS Secrets Manager announces managed external secretsAccelerate infrastructure development with AWS CloudFormation intelligent authoring in IDEsAWS Cost Optimization Hub introduces Cost Efficiency metric to measure and track cloud cost efficiencyAWS Lambda announces new tenant isolation mode to simplify building tenant-aware applicationsIntroducing 18-Month Forecasting and Explainable AI Insights in AWS Cost ExplorerSimplified developer access to AWS with ‘aws loginAmazon DynamoDB now supports multi-attribute composite key...


pre:Invent Drumbeat
#697
11/17/2025

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 17th, with Corey Quinn.


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Custom domain names for VPC Lattice resourcesAWS Lambda networking over IPv6AWS Control Tower supports automatic enrollment of accountsAmazon Braket Notebook Environments Now Support CUDA-Q NativelyAmazon MSK Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing for 180 times faster operation performanceAmazon Keyspaces now supports logged batches for atomic, multi-statement operationsAmazon CloudWatch Composite Alarms adds threshold-based alertingAmazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged BatchesAmazon Elastic Kubernetes Service gets independent affirmation of its zero operator access designAWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) launches new test scenarios for...


Monetize the Fire, Sell the Extinguisher
#696
11/10/2025

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 10th, with Corey Quinn. 

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AWS PrivateLink now supports cross-region connectivity for AWS ServicesAWS announces new partnership to power OpenAI's AI workloadsPrompt engineering with PartyRock: A guide for educators New whitepaper available – AI for Security and Security for AI: Navigating Opportunities and ChallengesFrom Business Logic to Working Code: How AWS Kiro Changes Who Can BuildCVE-2025-31133, CVE-2025-52565, CVE-2025-52881 - runc container issues Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals adds AI-powered Synthetics debuggingInside Amazon Connect: The evolution of a disruptorHow Indeed scaled Governance across 1,000+ AWS accounts with AWS Trusted Advis...