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

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 1st, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Protect sensitive data with dynamic data masking for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
• Amazon CloudFront announces support for mutual TLS authentication
• Amazon EC2 announces interruptible Capacity Reservations
• Introducing guidelines for network scanning
• Practical implementation considerations to close the AI value gap
• Everything you don’t need to know about Amazon Aurora DSQL: Part 4 – DSQL components
• Simplify data integration using zero-ETL from self-managed databases to Amazon Redshift
• Automatic quota management is now AWS Service Quotas adds support for automatic quota management
• Announcing Amazon Route 53 Accelerated Recovery for managing public DNS records
• Announcing Unused NAT Gateway Recommendations in AWS Compute Optimizer
• Amazon EKS introduces Provisioned Control Plane
• AWS Finally Lets You Find Your Idle NAT Gateways

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 24th, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Announcing agreement EventBridge notifications for AWS Marketplace
• Network Load Balancers now support Weighted Target Groups
• AWS NAT Gateway now supports regional availability
• AWS Secrets Manager announces managed external secrets
• Accelerate infrastructure development with AWS CloudFormation intelligent authoring in IDEs
• AWS Cost Optimization Hub introduces Cost Efficiency metric to measure and track cloud cost efficiency
• AWS Lambda announces new tenant isolation mode to simplify building tenant-aware applications
• Introducing 18-Month Forecasting and Explainable AI Insights in AWS Cost Explorer
• Simplified developer access to AWS with ‘aws login
• Amazon DynamoDB now supports multi-attribute composite keys in global secondary indexes
• Simplify access to external services using AWS IAM Outbound Identity Federation
• Improve API discoverability with the new Amazon API Gateway Portal
• AWS Step Functions enhances Local Testing with TestState API
• Amazon CloudFront announces 3 new CloudFront Functions capabilities
• Recycle Bin adds support for Amazon EBS Volumes
• Announcing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 8.0
• AWS Lambda adds support for Rust
• Introducing Amazon MWAA Serverless
• Introducing flat-rate pricing plans with no overages
• New Amazon Bedrock service tiers help you match AI workload performance with cost
• Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs are now available
• Amazon ECR introduces archive storage class for rarely accessed container images
• New AWS Billing Transfer for centrally managing AWS billing and costs across multiple organizations

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 17th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Custom domain names for VPC Lattice resources
• AWS Lambda networking over IPv6
• AWS Control Tower supports automatic enrollment of accounts
• Amazon Braket Notebook Environments Now Support CUDA-Q Natively
• Amazon MSK Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing for 180 times faster operation performance
• Amazon Keyspaces now supports logged batches for atomic, multi-statement operations
• Amazon CloudWatch Composite Alarms adds threshold-based alerting
• Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged Batches
• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service gets independent affirmation of its zero operator access design
• AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) launches new test scenarios for partial failures
• AWS CloudFormation Hooks adds granular invocation details for Hooks invocation summary
• Introducing structured output for Custom Model Import in Amazon Bedrock

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 10th, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• AWS PrivateLink now supports cross-region connectivity for AWS Services
• AWS announces new partnership to power OpenAI's AI workloads
• Prompt engineering with PartyRock: A guide for educators 
• New whitepaper available – AI for Security and Security for AI: Navigating Opportunities and Challenges
• From Business Logic to Working Code: How AWS Kiro Changes Who Can Build
• CVE-2025-31133, CVE-2025-52565, CVE-2025-52881 - runc container issues 
• Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals adds AI-powered Synthetics debugging
• Inside Amazon Connect: The evolution of a disruptor
• How Indeed scaled Governance across 1,000+ AWS accounts with AWS Trusted Advisor 
• Improper authentication token handling in the Amazon WorkSpaces client for Linux
• How Omnissa saved millions by migrating to Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2
• The Swift AWS Lambda Runtime moves to AWSLabs
• CVE-2025-12815 - RES web portal may display preview of Virtual Desktops that the user shouldn't have access to

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