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Last Week In AWS Podcast

Last Week In AWS Podcast

By: Corey Quinn
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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.The Duckbill Group Politics & Government
Episodes
  • S3 Files and an AI-Powered Singing Rat Trap
    Apr 13 2026

    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 role
    • Amazon S3 starts rolling out new security best practice to new and existing buckets by default
    • Introducing AI-Powered Cost Analysis in AWS Cost Explorer
    • Launching S3 Files, making S3 buckets accessible as file systems
    • The future of managing agents at scale: AWS Agent Registry now in preview
    • Understanding Amazon Bedrock model lifecycle
    • Introducing OpenTelemetry & PromQL support in Amazon CloudWatch
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    6 mins
  • S3 Gets Vectors, CloudFront Gets SHA-256, You Get the Bill
    Apr 6 2026

    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 support for Amazon ECS Managed Instances
    • Leverage Agentic AI for Autonomous Incident Response with AWS DevOps Agent
    • Navigating the NGINX Ingress retirement: A practical guide to migration on AWS
    • Optimizing data transfer costs when using AWS Network Load Balancer
    • AWS Security Agent on-demand penetration testing now generally available

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    5 mins
  • Aurora PostgreSQL: Now Free Enough to Be Dangerous
    Mar 30 2026

    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 in seconds
    • Enhancing auto scaling resilience by tracking worker utilization metrics
    • Amazon CloudFront flat-rate pricing plans: new features and expanded capabilities
    • IAM policy types: How and when to use them
    • Preparing for agentic AI: A financial services approach
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    4 mins
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