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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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 in Forecasting and Estimation Use Case in Gartner Critical Capabilities for Cloud Financial Management Tools report
• Introducing Amazon Quick Suite: your agentic AI-powered workspace
• Unlock real-time advertising insights with Amazon Marketing Stream and AWS
• IMDS impersonation
• Reduce Docker image build time on AWS CodeBuild using Amazon ECR as a remote cache
• Understanding Amazon Chime SDK costs in AWS Cost Explorer
• AWS Introduces self-service invoice correction feature
• Bridging data silos: cross-bounded context querying with Vanguard’s Operational Read-only Data Store (ORDS) using Amazon Redshift
• Beyond Bootstrap: Bootstrapless CDK Deployments at GoDaddy
• Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.34
• Amazon SageMaker notebook instance now supports Amazon Linux 2023
• Your Ultimate Guide to Cloud Financial Management sessions at re:Invent 2025: Know Before You Go
• Automatic quota management is now generally available for AWS Service Quotas
• CVE-2025-11462 AWS ClientVPN macOS Client Local Privilege Escalation
• CVE-2025-11573 - Denial of Service issue in Amazon.IonDotnet

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 6th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Deploying AI models for inference with AWS Lambda using zip packaging
• Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances
• Amazon EBS increases the maximum size and provisioned performance of General Purpose (gp3) volumes
• Accelerating AWS Infrastructure Deployment: A Practical Guide to Console-to-Code
• AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Google
• Build a dynamic workflow orchestration engine with Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda
• AWS Transfer Family adds support for additional IAM condition keys
• AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 99 new Amazon EC2 instance types

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 uses AWS to scale global animal welfare programs
• deprecating its SOAP API
• Prompt Library | AWS Startups
• AWS named as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants

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 up), only to walk it back prior to implementation.
• Use Raspberry Pi 5 as Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes for edge workloads
• Malware Protection for S3 Expands File Size and Archive Scanning Limits
• AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container Management
• Migrate from Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet to Claude 4 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock

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 Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) with Amazon Connect
• Introducing universal installers for AWS CLI v2 on macOS