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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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

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

Links:

• Amazon Connect external voice pricing changes
• AWS Marketplace now supports SaaS products from all deployment locations
• Amazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experience
• Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generation
• In the works – AWS South America (Chile) Region
• Monitoring network traffic in AWS Lambda functions
• Announcing the end of support for AWS DynamoDB Session State Provider
• WordFinder app: Harnessing generative AI on AWS for aphasia communication
• Accelerating government efficiency with AWS Enterprise Support
• Introducing the AWS Zero Trust Accelerator for Government

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 5th, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Automated HTTP validated public certificates with Amazon CloudFront
• AWS Systems Manager launches just-in-time node access
• MAP enhancements to accelerate AI customer adoption
• Announcing SaaS Manager for Amazon CloudFront
• Announcing second-generation AWS Outposts racks
• Amazon CloudWatch launches tiered pricing and additional destinations for AWS Lambda logs
• AWS Launch Wizard automates multi-node SAP NetWeaver deployment on SAP ASE Database
• AWS Lambda standardizes billing for INIT Phase

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 28th, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) 
• Amazon Cognito now supports refresh token rotation 
• Amazon Q Developer releases state-of-the-art agent for feature development 
• AWS Account Management now supports IAM-based account name updates 
• AWS CodeBuild adds support for specifying EC2 instance type and configurable storage size 
• AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Lightsail 
• AWS STS global endpoint now serves your requests locally in Regions enabled by default 
• AWS Transfer Family introduces Terraform module for deploying SFTP server endpoints 
• How Smartsheet reduced latency and optimized costs in their serverless architecture 
• In the works – New Availability Zone in Maryland for US East (Northern Virginia) Region 
• CVE-2025-3857 – Infinite loop condition in Amazon.IonDotnet 
• I annotated Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 21st, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• AWS simplifies Amazon VPC Peering billing
• AWS now allows customers in Europe to pay For their usage in advance
• AWS Lambda@Edge announces advanced logging controls
• Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Dakar
• Announcing the AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens
• Announcing General Availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q
• Racing beyond DeepRacer: Debut of the AWS LLM League
• Manage budgets efficiently with budget events in AWS Deadline Cloud

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 14th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Amazon Route 53 adds public authoritative DNS service to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
• Cost Optimization Hub supports DynamoDB and MemoryDB reservation recommendations
• Load Balancer Capacity Unit Reservation for Gateway Load Balancers
• Announcing new AWS Elemental MediaTailor pricing model with lower VOD ad insertion costs
• How AWS and Intel make LLMs more accessible and cost-effective with DeepSeek
• Announcing up to 85% price reductions for Amazon S3 Express One Zone
• Optimize Amazon VPC Flow Logs analysis with Cribl Stream sampling
• Exploring Data Transfer Costs for AWS Network Load Balancers

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 7th, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Amazon EC2 now supports more bandwidth and jumbo frames to select destinations
• API Gateway launches support for dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints
• AWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 3.4
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs increases maximum log event size to 1 MB
• Amazon Neptune announces 99.99% availability Service Level Agreement
• Announcing the general availability of Amazon VPC Route Server
• Under the hood: Amazon EKS Auto Mode
• Optimizing cost savings: The advantage of Amazon Aurora over self-managed open source databases
• How AWS Sales uses generative AI to streamline account planning
• Issue with AWS SAM CLI (CVE-2025-3047, CVE-2025-3048)

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 31st, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Amazon DynamoDB now supports percentile statistics for request latency
• Amazon EKS now enforces upgrade insights checks as part of cluster upgrades
• Amazon GameLift Servers expands instance support with next-generation EC2 instance families
• AWS CloudFormation now supports targeted resource scans in the IaC generator
• AWS adds currency selection to Payment Profiles
• AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
• AWS announces expanded service support in the AWS Console Mobile App
• AWS Network Manager and AWS Cloud WAN now support AWS PrivateLink and IPv6
• Unlocking the power of Splunk with Amazon Bedrock – Build AI assistant using agents
• From virtual machine to Kubernetes to serverless: How dacadoo saved 78% on cloud costs and automated operations
• Accelerating CI with AWS CodeBuild: Parallel test execution now available
• Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story | AWS News Blog
• Detailed geographic information for all AWS Regions and Availability Zones is now available
• Optimizing network footprint in serverless applications
• Simplifying private API integrations with Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions
• Announcing the Developer Preview of Amazon S3 Transfer Manager in Rust
• AWS SDK for Ruby: Deprecating Ruby 2.5 & 2.6 Runtime Supports and Future Compatibility
• Announcing the AWS CDK L2 Construct for Amazon Cognito Identity Pools
• AWS re:Invent 2024 recap for government agencies