• I'll Bring the Snark, AWS Brings the Chaos, You Bring Yourself to the Bar
    Jul 7 2025

    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
    • Using generative AI to help dog owners make smarter health decisions
    • AWS Certificate Manager now supports exporting public certificates
    • Remote access to AWS: A guide for hybrid workforces
    • How to Use AWS Data Transfer Terminal
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    6 mins
  • The Hubris of Security Hub
    Jun 30 2025

    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
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    5 mins
  • One UI Gets Fixed, Another Falls
    Jun 23 2025

    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 CDK Community Meetings
    • Rapid monitoring of Amazon S3 bucket policy changes in AWS environments
    • 1Password’s New Secrets Syncing Integration With AWS | 1Password
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    4 mins
  • AWS What's New Got Old
    Jun 16 2025

    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 - Insecure device pairing in end-of-life Amazon Cloud Cam
    • What To Do When You’re Underwater on Your AWS EDP
    • AWS screwed up the What's New at AWS page


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    5 mins
  • AWS's Snaky Region
    Jun 9 2025

    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 your Amazon DynamoDB global tables to the current version
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    3 mins
  • Priceless Aurora DSQL
    Jun 2 2025

    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 Plans and reservations preferences
    • Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available
    • Enhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP server
    • OpenSearch UI: Six months in review
    • 5 steps for building a VMware transition strategy for public sector customers
    • Cloud Repatriation is Getting Complicated



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    4 mins
  • Putting My Wife On a PIP
    May 27 2025

    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 to All Things AWS
    • Introducing the AWS Product Lifecycle page and AWS service availability updates
    • Join AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day to learn cutting-edge innovations building global cloud infrastructure
    • How to secure your instances with multi-factor authentication
    • Cost Optimization for Healthcare on AWS
    • CORS configuration through Amazon CloudFront
    • Introducing Strands Agents, an Open Source AI Agents SDK | AWS Open Source Blog
    • Andy Jassy’s leadership lesson he practices at work and at home
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    5 mins
  • Transform Away, as AWS Reverses Course
    May 19 2025

    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 Developer in Amazon OpenSearch Service
    • Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights applied in real scenarios
    • Cost-effective AI image generation with PixArt-Σ inference on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia
    • United Airlines implement enterprise-wide resilience program with AWS
    • Bringing more to the table: How Amazon S3 Tables rapidly delivered new capabilities in the first 5 months
    • Understanding Amazon S3 client-side encryption options

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    6 mins