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AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 13th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: Introducing AWS Pricing Capabilities in Amazon Q Developer: Ask Questions, Get Instant Cost Insights Amazon Location Service Updates for Vietnam's New Administrative Boundaries Part 6: Effective sunset of the legacy data platform in BBVA: the migration methodology Amazon Q Developer and Kiro – Prompt Injection Issues in Kiro and Q IDE plugins Amazon DynamoDB now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) AWS ranks #1...
This AWS Morning Brief episode covers several new updates and features across the AWS ecosystem, including enhanced Lambda zip deployments, increased EBS GP3 volume performance, and the console-to-code tool. Corey Quinn also expresses confusion about AWS Builder ID and critically assesses building custom workflow orchestrators with DynamoDB and Lambda instead of utilizing AWS Step Functions. He also highlights services for AWS cost optimization.
AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 29th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: You can now preview Amazon S3 Tables in the S3 console AWS Organizations supports full IAM policy language for service control policies (SCPs) Amazon Route 53 Resolver Query Logging now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) A guide to reducing waste and improving efficiency with AWS Amazon RDS announces cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copy AWS announces EC2 instance attestation Humane World for Animals use...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 22nd, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: Qwen models are now available in Amazon Bedrock AWS Budgets now supports custom time periods Amazon CloudWatch launches Cross-Account and Cross-Region Log Centralization Amazon S3 now supports conditional deletes in S3 general purpose buckets New fault action in AWS FIS to inject I/O latency on Amazon EBS volumes AWS has once again announced a change (in this case, changing the email address from which invoices show...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 15th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: Enforcing organization-wide Amazon S3 bucket-tagging policies ECS Exec is now available in the AWS Management Console AWS Control Tower now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Introducing AWS CDK Refactor (Preview) Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE AWS WAF now includes free WAF Vended Logs based on request volume AWS recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quad...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 8th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29 AWS IAM launches new VPC endpoint condition keys for network perimeter controls RDS Data API now supports IPv6 Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region AWS Resource Explorer is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region Protect your Amazon Route 53 DNS zones and records Efficiently verify Amazon S3 data at scale with compute checksum operation AWS Elem...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 2nd, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: How Ancestry optimizes a 100-billion-row Iceberg table Mastering Amazon Q Developer with Rules Bob’s Used Books: Build a .NET Serverless Application on AWS – Part 2: Architecture How Amazon Finance built an AI assistant using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Kendra to support analysts for data discovery and business insights Building Your Open Source Commercial Strategy with AWS How to optimize Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora ...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 25th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy SQL injection vulnerability in the AWS Aurora DSQL MCP Server | by Michael Kandelaars | Aug, 2025 | Medium Top AWS chip engineer reportedly defects to Arm Copilot Broke Your Audit Log, but Microsoft Won’t Tell You - Pistachio Blog - Cybersecurity Awareness Training AWS blames bug for Kiro pricing glitch that drained developer limits | InfoWorld Amazon Cloud Chief...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 18th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: a billion dollars in savings highlights why I'm wrong Demystifying Amazon Bedrock Pricing for a Chatbot Assistant Improving Your Visibility to AWS Sales: A Practical Guide for Partners Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in Amazon Bedrock Expanded Context Window Amazon EC2 Single GPU P5 instances are now generally available Announcing Extended Support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 3.6 CVE-2025-8904...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 11th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Cloud Visibility Best Practices This Ars article AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens Amazon killing a user’s account Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver v2: Accelerated performance and improved resource usage for Kubernetes workloads Streamlining outbound emails with Amazon SES Mail Manager AWS Lambda now supports GitHub Actions to simplify function deployment Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 now ...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 4th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Amazon Aurora MySQL database clusters now support up to 256 TiB of storage volume Introducing v2 of Powertools for AWS Lambda (Java) Introducing Extended Support for Amazon ElastiCache version 4 and version 5 for Redis OSS Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available AWS Lambda response streaming now supports 200 MB response payloads How Zapier runs isolated tasks on AWS Lambda and upgrades functions at scale Amazon Applicati...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 28th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: Launching Amazon CloudWatch generative AI observability (Preview) Amazon CloudWatch adds IPv6 support Boost cold-start recommendations with vLLM on AWS Trainium AWS Private CA now supports issuing up to 100 million certificates per CA Amazon Connect announces per-day pricing for external voice connectors Amazon RDS for Db2 adds support for group-based authorization with self-managed Active Directory Manage multi-tenant A...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 21st, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon EBS now provides visibility into EBS volume initialization status The Amazon S3 console now displays an external access summary for all your buckets Amazon S3 Tables reduce compaction costs by up to 90% AWS API MCP Server now available AWS Cost Anomaly Detection improves accuracy with model enhancements AWS Price List API now supports four new Query Filters Introducing AWS AI League Announcing Model Context Protoc...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 14th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Direct Connect Layer 1 Explained: From Data Centers to Cloud Connectivity Oracle Database@AWS announces general availability, expands networking capabilities Amazon Bedrock introduces API keys for streamlined development Announcing AWS Builder Center Amazon P6e-GB200 UltraServers now available for the highest GPU performance in EC2 Quantifying the Impact of Developer Experience: Amazon’s 15.9% Breakthrough Establishi...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 7th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Finch expands support to Ubuntu, streamlining container development across platforms Amazon CloudFront announces support for HTTPS DNS records Amazon Q Business launches the ability to customize responses Build the highest resilience apps with multi-Region strong consistency in Amazon DynamoDB global tables Leveling up Amazon RDS with AWS Graviton4: Benchmarks Build AWS architecture diagrams using Amazon Q CLI and MCP U...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, June 30th, with Corey Quinn. Links: What is AWS Security Hub? Amazon data center complex Code reviews in you IDE AWS Local Zones Features - AWS Last Week in AWS Slack community Amazon VPC raises default Route Table capacity Announcing Intelligent Search for re:Post and re:Post Private How to Set Up Automated Alerts for Newly Purchased AWS Savings Plans Introducing AWS Lambda native support for Avro and Protobuf formatted Apache Kafka events...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 23rd, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS IAM now enforces MFA for root users across all account types AWS expands resource control policies (RCPs) support to two additional services One Year EC2 Instance Savings Plans are now available for P5 and P5en instances AWS Certificate Manager introduces exportable public SSL/TLS certificates to use anywhere Verify internal access to critical AWS resources with new IAM Access Analyzer capabilities Introducing AWS CD...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 16, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) region Amazon S3 Tables now provide storage cost visibility for individual tables AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for CloudWatch Log Insights AWS launches public preview of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) Stream multi-channel audio to Amazon Transcribe using the Web Audio API Amazon to launch second Secret Cloud Region in 2025 CVE-2025-6031...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 9th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon EC2 now enables you to delete underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Aurora I/O-Optimized recommendations AWS Invoice Summary API is now generally available Optimize Your AWS Spend with New Cost Savings Features in AWS Trusted Advisor Announcing up to 45% price reduction for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances Now open – AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region Upgrade y...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 2nd, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon ECS increases container exit reason message to 1024 characters Amazon GameLift Servers SDKs are now on GitHub AWS Cost Explorer now offers new Cost Comparison feature AWS DataSync simplifies and accelerates cross-cloud data transfers AWS Secrets Manager announces support for cost allocation tags for secrets CloudTrail Lake now supports event enrichment and expanded event size Cost Optimization Hub now supports Savings Pl...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of Tuesday, May 27th with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Aurora reduces cross-Region Global Database Switchover time to typically under 30 seconds Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 4.0 AWS Control Tower releases Enabled controls view for centralized visibility - AWS AWS Cost Anomaly Detection enables advanced alerting through AWS User Notifications AWS service changes DynamoDB local is now accessible on AWS CloudShell Join Us at FinOps X 2025: Your Guide...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 19th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports resource exclusion AWS announces new AWS Data Transfer Terminal location in the San Francisco Bay Area Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability Accelerate the modernization of Mainframe and VMware workloads with AWS Transform New Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to accelerate AI innovations Introducing Amazon Q Devel...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 12th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Connect external voice pricing changes AWS Marketplace now supports SaaS products from all deployment locations Amazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experience Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generation In the works – AWS South America (Chile) Region Monitoring network traffic in AWS Lambda functions Announcing the end of support for AWS DynamoDB Session State ...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 5th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Automated HTTP validated public certificates with Amazon CloudFront AWS Systems Manager launches just-in-time node access MAP enhancements to accelerate AI customer adoption Announcing SaaS Manager for Amazon CloudFront Announcing second-generation AWS Outposts racks Amazon CloudWatch launches tiered pricing and additional destinations for AWS Lambda logs AWS Launch Wizard automates multi-node SAP NetWeaver deployment on SAP ASE...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 28th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) Amazon Cognito now supports refresh token rotation Amazon Q Developer releases state-of-the-art agent for feature development AWS Account Management now supports IAM-based account name updates AWS CodeBuild adds support for specifying EC2 instance type and configurable storage size AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Lightsail AWS ...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 21st, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS simplifies Amazon VPC Peering billing AWS now allows customers in Europe to pay For their usage in advance AWS Lambda@Edge announces advanced logging controls Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Dakar Announcing the AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens Announcing General Availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q Racing beyond DeepRacer: Debut of the AWS LLM League Manage budgets efficiently with budget events in AWS D...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 14th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Route 53 adds public authoritative DNS service to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions Cost Optimization Hub supports DynamoDB and MemoryDB reservation recommendations Load Balancer Capacity Unit Reservation for Gateway Load Balancers Announcing new AWS Elemental MediaTailor pricing model with lower VOD ad insertion costs How AWS and Intel make LLMs more accessible and cost-effective with DeepSeek Announcing up to 85% price reduc...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 7th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon EC2 now supports more bandwidth and jumbo frames to select destinations API Gateway launches support for dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints AWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 3.4 Amazon CloudWatch Logs increases maximum log event size to 1 MB Amazon Neptune announces 99.99% availability Service Level Agreement Announcing the general availability of Amazon VPC Route Server Under the hood: Amazon EKS Auto Mode Optimizing ...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 31st, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon DynamoDB now supports percentile statistics for request latency Amazon EKS now enforces upgrade insights checks as part of cluster upgrades Amazon GameLift Servers expands instance support with next-generation EC2 instance families AWS CloudFormation now supports targeted resource scans in the IaC generator AWS adds currency selection to Payment Profiles AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 24th, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Client VPN increases authorization rules and route quotas Announcing the New AWS Wickr Admin Console AWS announces the next generation of Amazon Connect where powerful AI improves every customer interaction Manage SLO exclusion time windows using CloudWatch Application Signals Handling billions of invocations – best practices from AWS Lambda Visually build telephony applications with AWS Step Functions Corey is speaking a...
