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 supports 10x larger record sizes
• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announces upgraded query planner that can run queries up to 10x faster
• Announcing AWS X-Ray SDKs/Daemon End-of-Support and OpenTelemetry Migration
• Amazon S3 adds conditional write functionality to copy operations
• Introducing the Capacity Reservation Topology API for AI, ML, and HPC instance types
• How to deploy a SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance across three Availability Zones using Storage Spaces Direct
• Reduce CAPTCHAs for AI agents browsing the web with Web Bot Auth (Preview) in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser
• Using Kubernetes Labels to Split and Track Application Costs on Amazon EKS
• Introducing AWS Lambda event source mapping tools in the AWS Serverless MCP Server
• Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS supports Kubernetes labels

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 now available in Europe (London) Region
• Amazon Connect now supports automated follow-up evaluations triggered by initial evaluation results
• How the Wildlife Conservation Society uses AWS to accelerate coral reef monitoring worldwide
• Amazon MQ is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
• Amazon CloudWatch introduces interactive incident reporting
• AWS Secret-West Region is now available
• Charting the life of an Amazon CloudFront request

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: Create instant copies of your EBS volumes
• Optimizing document AI and structured outputs by fine-tuning Amazon Nova Models and on-demand inference
• Introducing URL and host header rewrite with AWS Application Load Balancers
• New Amazon EKS Auto Mode features for enhanced security, network control, and performance
• Monitor, analyze, and manage capacity usage from a single interface with Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager
• Performance optimization strategies for MySQL on Amazon RDS
• AWS re:Invent 2025: Reimagining customer experience with Amazon
• AWS Deprecates Two Dozen Services (Most of Which You’ve Never Heard Of)
• A FinOps Guide to Comparing Containers and Serverless Functions for Compute
• Announcing vector search for Amazon ElastiCache
• AWS Post-Event Summaries