AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 21, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS CodePipeline introduces new debugging experience in AWS Management Console The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts EC2 Image Builder simplifies converting Windows ISO files to AMIs Now open AWS Mexico (Central) Region AWS CDK is splitting Construct Library and CLI Amazon Bedrock launches with Claude 3.5 Sonnet in the AWS Top Secret cloud Preventing unintended encryption of Am...
Jan 21, 2025•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 13, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon DynamoDB now supports configurable point-in-time-recovery periods AWS Compute Optimizer now expands idle and rightsizing recommendations for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups Announcing the new AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region | AWS News Blog Shaping the future of CDK together The benefits of an email-based AI virtual assistant on AWS Securing a city-sized event: How Amazon integrates physical and logical security at re...
Jan 13, 2025•5 min•Ep 653•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 23, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces client for macOS Amazon EC2 instances support bandwidth configurations for VPC and EBS Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) connectivity Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client now available to purchase in India AWS Backup launches support for search and item-level recovery AWS Mainframe Modernization now supports connectivity over Internet Protocol version 6 (I...
Dec 23, 2024•7 min•Ep 652•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 16th, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Bedrock Guardrails reduces pricing by up to 85% Amazon CloudWatch now provides centralized visibility into telemetry configurations Amazon EC2 F2 instances, featuring up to 8 FPGAs, are generally available Amazon SES now offers Global Endpoints for multi-region sending resilience AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now includes Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail Accelerate your AWS Graviton adoption with the AWS ...
Dec 16, 2024•5 min•Ep 651•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 9, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS announces access to VPC resources over AWS PrivateLink Announcing Amazon Aurora DSQL (Preview) Announcing Amazon Bedrock IDE in preview as part of Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio AWS announces Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights Amazon DynamoDB global tables previews multi-Region strong consistency Amazon EC2 introduces Allowed AMIs to enhance AMI governance Announcing Amazon EC2 I8g instances Announcing Amazon EKS Auto M...
Dec 09, 2024•19 min•Ep 650•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 2, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon CloudWatch adds context to observability data in service consoles, accelerating analysis Amazon Cognito introduces Managed Login to support rich branding for end user journeys Amazon Cognito now supports passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins Amazon Connect Email is now generally available Amazon EBS announces Time-based Copy for EBS Snapshots Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces highly responsive...
Dec 02, 2024•12 min•Ep 649•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 25, with Corey Quinn. Links: Enhanced account linking experience across AWS Marketplace and AWS Partner Central Amazon API Gateway now supports Custom Domain Name for private REST APIs Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 supports scaling to zero capacity Amazon CloudFront now supports Anycast Static IPs Amazon CloudFront now supports additional log formats and destinations for access logs Amazon CloudFront announces VPC origins Amazon CloudWatch launches full v...
Nov 25, 2024•11 min•Ep 648•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 18, with Corey Quinn. Links: Buy a shirt benefiting 826 National! Amazon DataZone updates pricing and removes the user-level subscription fee Amazon DynamoDB reduces prices for on-demand throughput and global tables Amazon DynamoDB introduces warm throughput for tables and indexes Amazon EBS now supports detailed performance statistics on EBS volume health Amazon Q Developer plugins for Datadog and Wiz now generally available Amazon S3 now supports up t...
Nov 18, 2024•5 min•Ep 647•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 11, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon CloudFront no longer charges for requests blocked by AWS WAF Amazon OpenSearch Service announces Extended Support for engine versions Configure Route53 CIDR blocks rules based on Internet Monitor suggestions Announcing an improved self-guided experience for AWS Partner Central AWS introduces service versioning and deployment history for Amazon ECS services Reduce your Microsoft licensing costs by upgrading to 4th gene...
Nov 11, 2024•4 min•Ep 646•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 4, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon CloudWatch now monitors EBS volumes exceeding provisioned performance Amazon Q Developer announces support for inline chat to streamline the developer experience Amazon Route 53 announces HTTPS, SSHFP, SVCB, and TLSA DNS resource record support Amazon Virtual Private Cloud launches new security group sharing features AWS now accepts partial card payments Announcing AWS Amplify integration with Amazon S3 for static webs...
Nov 04, 2024•2 min•Ep 645•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 28, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Aurora launches Global Database writer endpoint Amazon Connect now offers screen sharing Amazon EKS endpoints now support connectivity over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) AWS IAM Identity Center simplifies calls to AWS services with single identity context EC2 Image Builder now supports building and testing macOS images Introducing an enhanced in-console editing experience for AWS Lambda...
Oct 28, 2024•3 min•Ep 644•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 21, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon CloudFront launches support for JA4 fingerprinting Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now supports live migration-based host maintenance Amazon EFS now supports up to 60 GiB/s (a 2x increase) of read throughput Announcing Amazon Q in AWS Supply Chain Amazon S3 adds new Region and bucket name filtering for the ListBuckets API Assign billing of your shared Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations AWS Resource Explorer introduc...
Oct 21, 2024•5 min•Ep 643•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 15, with Corey Quinn. Links: Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey Amazon WorkSpaces now supports file transfer between WorkSpaces sessions and local devices AWS Application Composer is now AWS Infrastructure Composer AWS CodePipeline introduces new general purpose compute action AWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops between Lambda and Amazon S3 Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally available H...
Oct 15, 2024•4 min•Ep 641•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 7, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS CloudShell extends most recent capabilities to all commercial Regions Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 now supports up to 256 ACUs Amazon S3 adds Service Quotas support for S3 general purpose buckets AWS announces Reserved Nodes flexibility for Amazon ElastiCache Duckbill Guide to AWS Reserved Instances Deprecation of Lake Formations Governed Tables Feature Announcing AWS Neuron Helm Chart Leverage IAM Roles for email sending v...
Oct 07, 2024•4 min•Ep 640•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 30, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports RDS Data API Introducing Amazon EC2 C8g and M8g Instances Amazon EC2 Instance Connect now supports IPv6 Amazon SNS now delivers SMS text messages via AWS End User Messaging AWS CloudFormation Git sync now supports pull request workflows to review your stack changes AWS CloudTrail launches network activity events for VPC endpoints (preview) AWS Serverless Application Repository now supports A...
Sep 30, 2024•5 min•Ep 639•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 23, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Transfer Family increases throughput and file sizes supported by SFTP connectors AWS WAF Bot Control Managed Rule expands bot detection capabilities AWS named as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Announcing General Availability of the AWS SDK for Swift Reinventing the Amazon Q Developer agent for software development Support for AWS DeepComposer ending soon Unlock AWS Cost and U...
Sep 23, 2024•4 min•Ep 638•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 16, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon EC2 P5e instances are generally available via EC2 Capacity Blocks Announcing Storage Browser for Amazon S3 for your web applications (alpha release) Building a privacy preserving chatbot with Amazon Bedrock Faster development with Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Q Developer Linux Support Updates for AWS CLI v2 Best prompting practices for using Meta Llama 3 with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Build a RAG-based QnA application...
Sep 16, 2024•6 min•Ep 637•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 9th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Organizational Units in AWS Control Tower can now contain up to 1,000 accounts Amazon SES announces enhanced onboarding with adaptive setup wizard and Virtual Deliverability Manager AWS Glue now provides job queuing AWS Network Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout AWS named as a Leader in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants AWS to highlight generative AI, cloud advancements at IBC 20...
Sep 09, 2024•4 min•Ep 636•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 3rd, with Mike Julian. Links: Amazon Braket adds support for Rigetti's 84-Qubit Ankaa-2 system, our largest gate-based superconducting device Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances Amazon EC2 status checks now support reachability health of attached EBS volumes Amazon EMR support prioritized and capacity-optimized-prioritized allocation strategies for EC2 instances Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Graviton3 (C7g, M7g, R7g, R7...
Sep 03, 2024•7 min•Ep 635•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 19th with Mike Julian. Links: How AWS powered Prime Day 2024 for record-breaking sales New capabilities for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations: Split, Move, and Modify additional attributes Amazon QuickSight now includes nested filters Announcing Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class support on Amazon EMR Amazon Verified Permissions improves support for OIDC identity providers AWS announces support for Cost Allocation Tags on AWS Transi...
Aug 19, 2024•4 min•Ep 634•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 12th with Mike Julian. Links: Introducing AWS End User Messaging Amazon EFS now supports up to 30 GiB/s (a 50% increase) of read throughput Amazon RDS for Db2 supports loading data from Amazon S3 AWS announces private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnets Announcing delegated administrator for Cost Optimization Hub OpenSearch optimized instance (OR1) is game changing for indexing performance and cost...
Aug 12, 2024•4 min•Ep 633•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 5th with Mike Julian. Links: Introducing AWS End User Messaging AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances now support hibernation New Amazon CloudWatch dimensions for Amazon EC2 On Demand Capacity Reservations AWS and Multicloud: Existing capabilities & continued enhancements Deliver Amazon CloudWatch logs to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Cost Optimizer for Amazon WorkSpaces 2.7 released Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist at AWS, confirms service deprecations ...
Aug 05, 2024•5 min•Ep 632•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 29th, with Mike Julian. Links: Amazon VPC IPAM now supports BYOIP for IPs registered with any Internet Registry AWS Cost Categories now supports Billing Entity dimension Enhance database performance with Amazon RDS dedicated log volumes QLDB deprecation--more on the way?...
Jul 29, 2024•4 min•Ep 631•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 22nd, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports logging of all events in AWS CloudTrail AWS Cloud Control API now supports IPv6 AWS Private CA now supports ARM architecture in Kubernetes How Volkswagen streamlined access to data across multiple data lakes using Amazon DataZone Part 1 Migrate an Amazon QLDB Ledger to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL...
Jul 22, 2024•4 min•Ep 630•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 15th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon API Gateway WebSocket APIs now available in 7 additional AWS Regions Amazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 now generally available Announcing the next generation of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems Announcing AWS App Studio preview AWS Lambda introduces new controls to make it easier to search, filter, and aggregate Lambda function logs AWS recognized as a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner Magic...
Jul 15, 2024•4 min•Ep 629•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 8th, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) AWS Control Tower introduces an API to discover landing zone operations AWS Direct Connect announces native 400 Gbps Dedicated Connections at select locations New MAP Incentives to Accelerate Migration and Modernization Managing the history of the NFL Announcing initial services available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, backed by the full power of AWS H...
Jul 08, 2024•4 min•Ep 628•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 1st, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon DocumentDB announces IAM database authentication Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 now supports 100MB file uploads Amazon Time Sync Service expands microsecond-accurate time to 27 EC2 instance types Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces Pools, a new feature of Amazon WorkSpaces AWS CodeBuild supports Arm-based workloads using AWS Graviton3 Optimizing Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) for speed and scale Ten Ways to Improve ...
Jul 01, 2024•4 min•Ep 627•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, June 24th, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon CloudWatch announces AI-Powered natural language query generation AWS Compute Optimizer supports rightsizing recommendations for Amazon RDS MySQL and RDS PostgreSQL AWS CloudFormation Linter (cfn-lint) v1...
Jun 24, 2024•3 min•Ep 626•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, June 17th, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS CloudTrail Lake announces AI-powered natural language query generation (preview) Detect malware in new object uploads to Amazon S3 with Amazon GuardDuty AWS adds passkey multi-factor authentication (MFA) for root and IAM users In the Works AWS Region in Taiwan Optimize storage costs in Amazon OpenSearch Service using Zstandard compression AWS debuts AI certifications and courses for cloud jobs AWSs head of se...
Jun 17, 2024•4 min•Ep 625•Transcript available on Metacast AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, June 10th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Introducing Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances Amazon API Gateway integration timeout limit increase beyond 29 seconds Amazon CloudWatch GetMetricData API now supports AWS CloudTrail data event logging Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Live Tail streaming CLI support Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports GitHub Cloud source code with blueprints Amazon EC2 instance type finder capability is generally available in AWS Consol...
Jun 10, 2024•4 min•Ep 624•Transcript available on Metacast 
