AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 9th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Change the server-side encryption type of Amazon S3 objects
• Announcing memory-optimized instance bundles for Amazon Lightsail
• Amazon RDS now provides an enhanced console experience to connect to a database
• AWS Multi-party approval now requires one-time password verification for voting
• AWS Management Console now displays Account Name on the Navigation bar
• Structured outputs now available in Amazon Bedrock
• Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances with up to 22.8 TB local NVMe storage are generally available
• AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication for AWS account access and application use
• Trigger AWS Lambda functions from Amazon RDS for SQL Server database events
• Amazon CloudFront now supports mTLS authentication to origins
• Bevar Ukraine: Empowering Ukrainian refugees with AI-powered support on AWS
• Security Findings in SageMaker Python SDK

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 2nd, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• AWS Network Firewall now supports GenAI traffic visibility and enforcement with Web category-based filtering
• More room to build: serverless services now support payloads up to 1 MB
• Introducing pre-warming for Amazon Keyspaces tables
• Managing IP address exhaustion for Amazon RDS Proxy
• Strategies for upgrading Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL from version 13
• File integrity monitoring with AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Security Lake

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 26th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• AWS on Customer Choice & Multicloud
• AWS Adds Policy Details to Access Denied Errors
• Amazon ECR Cross-Repository Layer Sharing
• Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments (<5s downtime)
• S3 Storage Lens Now in GovCloud (US)
• Enterprise-Scale Migration to Apache Iceberg
• Kafka-Based Oracle LOB Migration to AWS
• Aurora PostgreSQL Shared Plan Cache

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 20th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Unanchored ACCOUNT_ID webhook filters for CodeBuild
• Amazon EBS now supports up to four Elastic Volumes modifications in 24 hours
• AWS Databases are now available on v0 by Vercel
• AWS Lambda announces cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams
• Enhanced Transactions view now available in AWS Billing Console
• AWS Data Exports adds granular operation visibility for Amazon Bedrock model usage
• Amazon EC2 X8i instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors are generally available
• Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
• AWS Organizations now supports upgrade rollout policy for Aurora and RDS
• Provision Oracle Database@AWS stack using AWS CloudFormation
• CLI v1 Maintenance Mode Announcement
• CVE-2026-0830: Command Injection in Kiro GitLab Merge Request Helper

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 12th, with Corey Quinn.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 22, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Automate java performance troubleshooting with AI-Powered thread dump analysis on Amazon ECS and EKS
• Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructure
• Optimize WordPress performance on Amazon EKS with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
• AWS reduces publishing time for Carbon Footprint Data to 21 days or Less
• AWS Payment Cryptography reduces API pricing by up to 63% and introduces tiered key pricing
• Key Commitment Issues in S3 Encryption Clients
• Coursera and AWS survey reveals how technology leaders navigate cloud and AI transformation
• Automated extraction of compressed files on Amazon S3 using AWS Batch and Amazon ECS
• Cryptomining campaign targeting Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 15th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Exploring the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference Framework
• Now generally available: Amazon EC2 C8gb instances
• Amazon CloudWatch SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocols
• Building national foundation models
• New report: Cloud “fundamental” for European national security and defense
• AI Increased Productivity? Consider Hiring More Developers!
• IAM Policy Autopilot: An open-source tool that brings IAM policy expertise to builders and AI coding assistants
• AWS and Google Cloud collaborate to simplify multicloud networking
• Exploring Optimize CPU feature on Amazon RDS for SQL Server
• Prometheus MCP Server: AI-Driven Monitoring Intelligence for AWS Users

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 8th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Introducing Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver for secure anycast DNS resolution (preview)
• Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility
• AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud
• Introducing AWS Transform custom: Crush tech debt with AI-powered code modernization
• Amazon CloudWatch introduces unified data management and analytics for operations, security, and compliance
• Amazon EC2 P6e-GB300 UltraServers accelerated by NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 are now generally available
• Introducing AWS AI Factories
• Introducing AWS DevOps Agent (preview), frontier agent for operational excellence
• Amazon S3 Storage Lens adds performance metrics, support for billions of prefixes, and export to S3 Tables
• Build multi-step applications and AI workflows with AWS Lambda durable functions
• Amazon S3 increases the maximum object size to 50 TB
• Amazon S3 Tables now offer the Intelligent-Tiering storage class
• China-nexus cyber threat groups rapidly exploit React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182)
• Introducing Database Savings Plans for AWS Databases