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Last Week In AWS Podcast

Corey Quinnwww.lastweekinaws.com
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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Episodes

The Week AWS Remembered GovCloud Exists

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 1st, with Corey Quinn. Links: Monitor AWS Budgets directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with new Budgets widget Introducing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for building your agentic AI applications Optimize costs in Amazon Aurora How AWS DevOps Agent uses multi-agent reasoning to find root causes Claude Opus 4.8 is now available on AWS Best Practices for TCP Connection Management on EC2 Introducing US-based, US citizen, 24/7...

Jun 01, 20266 minEp. 722

AWS and Oracle Together at Last, Apparently

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 25th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Bedrock expands support for request-level usage attribution Amazon ECS introduces pause and continue controls for service deployments AWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in preview AWS Organizations now supports higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs) Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 is now generally available Introducing ExtendDB: An open source DynamoDB-compatible ...

May 26, 20266 minEp. 721

M3 Ultra Macs, Claude Platform, and 619 New APIs Walk Into a Bar

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 18th , with Corey Quinn. Links: Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances Amazon EventBridge Scheduler adds 619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed Instances Amazon Redshift launches RG instances powered by AWS Graviton Amazon 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 Zones Streaming CloudWatc...

May 18, 20267 minEp. 720

AI-Native Foundations and the CVEs That Love Them

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 11th , with Corey Quinn. Links: Announcing Agent Toolkit for AWS — help AI coding agents build effectively on AWS Amazon CloudFront Announces WebSocket Support for VPC Origins Amazon EventBridge supports data plane logging to AWS CloudTrail AWS IAM now provides higher maximum quotas for roles, role trust policies, instance profiles, managed policies, and identity providers AWS Marketplace now supports programmatic procurement with Agreements API The AWS MCP ...

May 11, 20267 minEp. 719

Bedrock Bags OpenAI, Q Developer Bags Groceries

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 4th, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Management Console now supports settings to control service and Region visibility - AWS Amazon CloudWatch adds visual agent configuration to the EC2 console AWS Announces Amazon Connect Decisions Amazon Connect Talent for AI-powered hiring (now available in Preview) Introducing Amazon EC2 R8in and R8ib instances Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports index-level encryption Amazon Redshift Serverless AI-driven scaling is now ...

May 04, 20269 minEp. 718

The Week AWS Discovered JOIN Statements

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 27th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports configuration of processors via AI Introducing the Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway for hybrid Kubernetes networking Amazon EKS enhances cluster governance with new IAM condition keys Attributed Revenue Dashboard Now Available in AWS Partner Central AWS Lambda functions can now mount Amazon S3 buckets as file systems with S3 Files Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights introduces JOIN and sub-...

Apr 27, 202610 minEp. 717

Multicloud Interconnect and the Great CVE Hunt

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 20th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon CloudWatch now supports cross-region telemetry auditing and enablement rules Introducing Amazon EC2 C8in and C8ib instances Amazon Quick now supports multi-account sign-in within the same browser Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core are now available in two additional AWS Regions AWS announces general availability of AWS Interconnect - multicloud Automate AWS Cost Reporting with Scheduled Dashboard Ema...

Apr 20, 20266 minEp. 716

S3 Files and an AI-Powered Singing Rat Trap

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April, 13th with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Certificate Manager now supports native certificate search Amazon S3 Lifecycle pauses actions on objects that are unable to replicate Amazon Bedrock now offers Claude Mythos Preview (Gated Research Preview) Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Zstandard (zstd) codec for index compression AWS Secrets Manager console now supports custom input for AWS KMS keys Amazon Bedrock now supports cost allocation by IAM user and ...

Apr 13, 20266 minEp. 715

S3 Gets Vectors, CloudFront Gets SHA-256, You Get the Bill

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 6th, with Corey Quinn. Links : Announcing Amazon RDS for Oracle on AWS Outposts AWS Direct Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation AWS Service Availability Updates Amazon S3 Vectors expands to 17 additional AWS Regions Amazon CloudFront now supports SHA-256 for signed URLs and signed cookies Amazon CloudWatch now supports OpenTelemetry metrics in public preview Announcing compute-optimized instance bundles for Amazon Lightsail Announcing managed daemon sup...

Apr 06, 20265 minEp. 714

Aurora PostgreSQL: Now Free Enough to Be Dangerous

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 30th, with Corey Quinn. Links : Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now available with the AWS Free Tier Amazon EKS announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement and new 8XL scaling tier for Provisioned Control Plane clusters AWS Lambda increases the file descriptor limit to 4,096 for functions running on Lambda Managed Instances The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now supports automatic query caching with Valkey Announcing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL serverless database creation ...

Mar 30, 20264 minEp. 713

S3 Turns 20 and SimpleDB Is Still Alive

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 23rd, with Corey Quinn. Links : Amazon Corretto 26 is now generally available Amazon SimpleDB now supports exporting domain data to Amazon S3 AWS CDK Mixins is now generally available AWS Lambda Managed Instances now supports Rust Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports log ingestion using HTTP-based protocol AWS Lambda now supports Availability Zone metadata Expanding the BOX Program to Business Consulting and Advisory Partners Twenty years of Amazon S3 and b...

Mar 23, 202610 minEp. 712

Beanstalk AI: The Resurrection Nobody Asked For

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 16th, with Corey Quinn. Links : Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces increased query concurrency and API limits Introducing Amazon Connect Health, Agentic AI Built for Healthcare Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver is now generally available AWS simplifies IAM role creation and setup in service workflows Database Savings Plans now supports Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Neptune Analytics AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis AWS El...

Mar 16, 202611 minEp. 711

The AI Broke Production But Please Don't Tell Anyone

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 2nd, with Corey Quinn. Links : Amazon Aurora DSQL launches Playground for interactive database exploration Amazon Redshift Serverless introduces 3-year Serverless Reservations Amazon S3 now provides AWS source region information in server access logs AWS Compute Optimizer now applies AWS-generated tags to EBS snapshots created during automation AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java now available in Developer Preview AWS Trusted Advisor now delivers mor...

Mar 02, 20267 minEp. 710

Agents, Plugins, and AgentCore: AWS Has an AI Naming Problem

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 23rd, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Bedrock expands support for AWS PrivateLink AWS CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules eliminate alert fatigue Amazon EC2 supports nested virtualization on virtual Amazon EC2 instances Announcing Amazon DocumentDB long-term support (LTS) on 5.0 AWS Certificate Manager updates default certificate validity to comply with new guidelines Claude Sonnet 4.6 now available in Amazon Bedrock Kiro is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) R...

Feb 23, 20267 minEp. 709

Bedrock Throttling Guide: AWS Publishes Its Own Roast

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 17th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available in additional AWS Regions Amazon Bedrock adds support for six fully-managed open weights models AWS Config now supports 30 new resource types Announcing new Amazon EC2 general purpose M8azn instances AWS Network Firewall announces new price reductions Amazon S3 Tables add partition and sort order definition in the CreateTable API Amazon Athena adds 1-minute reservations and new capacity ...

Feb 17, 20266 minEp. 708

Your Account Name Was There All Along (It Wasn't)

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 9th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Change the server-side encryption type of Amazon S3 objects Announcing memory-optimized instance bundles for Amazon Lightsail Amazon RDS now provides an enhanced console experience to connect to a database AWS Multi-party approval now requires one-time password verification for voting AWS Management Console now displays Account Name on the Navigation bar Structured outputs now available in Amazon Bedrock Amazon EC2 C8id, M8...

Feb 09, 20266 minEp. 707

Bigger Pipes, Warmer Tables, Sadder IPs

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 2nd, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Network Firewall now supports GenAI traffic visibility and enforcement with Web category-based filtering More room to build: serverless services now support payloads up to 1 MB Introducing pre-warming for Amazon Keyspaces tables Managing IP address exhaustion for Amazon RDS Proxy Strategies for upgrading Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL from version 13 File integrity monitoring with AWS Systems Man...

Feb 02, 20264 minEp. 706

Access Denied, Now With a Good Reason

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 26th, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS on Customer Choice & Multicloud AWS Adds Policy Details to Access Denied Errors Amazon ECR Cross-Repository Layer Sharing Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments (<5s downtime) S3 Storage Lens Now in GovCloud (US) Enterprise-Scale Migration to Apache Iceberg Kafka-Based Oracle LOB Migration to AWS Aurora PostgreSQL Shared Plan Cache...

Jan 26, 20265 minEp. 705

AWS-Esque - What AWS Has For Us This Time

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 20th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Unanchored ACCOUNT_ID webhook filters for CodeBuild Amazon EBS now supports up to four Elastic Volumes modifications in 24 hours AWS Databases are now available on v0 by Vercel AWS Lambda announces cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams Enhanced Transactions view now available in AWS Billing Console AWS Data Exports adds granular operation visibility for Amazon Bedrock model usage Amazon EC2 X8i instances powered by cust...

Jan 20, 20266 minEp. 704

Impromptu Security Week

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 22, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: Automate java performance troubleshooting with AI-Powered thread dump analysis on Amazon ECS and EKS Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructure Optimize WordPress performance on Amazon EKS with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS AWS reduces publishing time for Carbon Footprint Data to 21 days or Less AWS Payment Cryptography reduces API pricing by up to 63% and introd...

Dec 22, 20255 minEp. 702

The Full Court EU Sales Press

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 15th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Exploring the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference Framework Now generally available: Amazon EC2 C8gb instances Amazon CloudWatch SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocols Building national foundation models New report: Cloud “fundamental” for European national security and defense AI Increased Productivity? Consider Hiring More Developers! IAM Policy Autopilot: An open-source tool that brings IAM policy...

Dec 15, 20255 minEp. 701

Corey Quinn Crashes Out

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 8th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Introducing Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver for secure anycast DNS resolution (preview) Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud Introducing AWS Transform custom: Crush tech debt with AI-powered code modernization Amazon CloudWatch introduces unified data management and analytics for operations, security, and compliance Amazon...

Dec 08, 20259 minEp. 700

Welcome to re:Invent, Where the Roadmap Is Made Up and the Quotas Don't Matter

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 1st, with Corey Quinn. Links: Protect sensitive data with dynamic data masking for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Amazon CloudFront announces support for mutual TLS authentication Amazon EC2 announces interruptible Capacity Reservations Introducing guidelines for network scanning Practical implementation considerations to close the AI value gap Everything you don’t need to know about Amazon Aurora DSQL: Part 4 – DSQL components Simplify data integration using...

Dec 01, 20257 minEp. 699

From Blackwell Ultra to "aws login": Chaos Reigns at Every Layer

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 24th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Announcing agreement EventBridge notifications for AWS Marketplace Network Load Balancers now support Weighted Target Groups AWS NAT Gateway now supports regional availability AWS Secrets Manager announces managed external secrets Accelerate infrastructure development with AWS CloudFormation intelligent authoring in IDEs AWS Cost Optimization Hub introduces Cost Efficiency metric to measure and track cloud cost efficiency ...

Nov 24, 202510 minEp. 698

pre:Invent Drumbeat

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 17th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Custom domain names for VPC Lattice resources AWS Lambda networking over IPv6 AWS Control Tower supports automatic enrollment of accounts Amazon Braket Notebook Environments Now Support CUDA-Q Natively Amazon MSK Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing for 180 times faster operation performance Amazon Keyspaces now supports logged batches for atomic, multi-statement operations Amazon CloudWatch Composite Alarms...

Nov 17, 20256 minEp. 697

Monetize the Fire, Sell the Extinguisher

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 10th, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS PrivateLink now supports cross-region connectivity for AWS Services AWS announces new partnership to power OpenAI's AI workloads Prompt engineering with PartyRock: A guide for educators New whitepaper available – AI for Security and Security for AI: Navigating Opportunities and Challenges From Business Logic to Working Code: How AWS Kiro Changes Who Can Build CVE-2025-31133, CVE-2025-52565, CVE-2025-52881 - runc contai...

Nov 10, 20257 minEp. 696

APIs to Tell You What You Already Paid For

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 3rd, with Corey Quinn. Links: Beyond pilots: A proven framework for scaling AI to production New Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor EC2 instances exceeding I/O performance Processing Amazon S3 objects at scale with AWS Step Functions Distributed Map S3 prefix What’s the difference between AWS ParallelCluster and AWS Parallel Computing Service? France Télévisions prepared for 2024 Olympic Games with AWS Countdown Premium Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now...

Nov 03, 20256 minEp. 695

DynamoDB Rises Like Expensive Phoenix

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 27th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Streamline in-place application upgrades with Amazon VPC Lattice Build a proactive AI cost management system for Amazon Bedrock – Part 2 - Overview and best practices of multithreaded replication in Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB, and Amazon Aurora MySQL AWS announces Nitro Enclaves are now available in all AWS Regions Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports bundled multi-check canaries Amazon U7i instances ...

Oct 27, 20257 minEp. 694

Catching Up, Cashing In

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 20th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Location Service Introduces New Map Styling Features for Enhanced Customization AWS Resource Explorer launches immediate resource discovery within a Region AWS SAM CLI adds Finch support, expanding local development tool options for serverless applications Simplified model access in Amazon Bedrock Amazon EC2 now supports CPU options optimization for license-included instances Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones: Cre...

Oct 20, 20256 minEp. 693
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