AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 27th, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• 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

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

Links:

• Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29
• AWS IAM launches new VPC endpoint condition keys for network perimeter controls
• RDS Data API now supports IPv6
• Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
• AWS Resource Explorer is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
• Protect your Amazon Route 53 DNS zones and records 
• Efficiently verify Amazon S3 data at scale with compute checksum operation
• AWS Elemental celebrates 10 years of innovation
• Choosing the right AWS live streaming solution for your use case

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 2nd, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• How Ancestry optimizes a 100-billion-row Iceberg table
• Mastering Amazon Q Developer with Rules 
• Bob’s Used Books: Build a .NET Serverless Application on AWS – Part 2: Architecture
• How Amazon Finance built an AI assistant using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Kendra to support analysts for data discovery and business insights 
• Building Your Open Source Commercial Strategy with AWS
• How to optimize Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora database costs/performance with AWS Compute Optimizer
• Gracefully handle failed AWS Lambda events from Amazon DynamoDB Streams
• Announcing the AWS Billing and Cost Management MCP server
• AWS joins the DocumentDB project to build interoperable, open source document database technology
• Count Tokens API supported for Anthropic’s Claude models now in Amazon Bedrock

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 25th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

Links: 

• AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy
• SQL injection vulnerability in the AWS Aurora DSQL MCP Server | by Michael Kandelaars | Aug, 2025 | Medium
• Top AWS chip engineer reportedly defects to Arm
• Copilot Broke Your Audit Log, but Microsoft Won’t Tell You - Pistachio Blog - Cybersecurity Awareness Training
• AWS blames bug for Kiro pricing glitch that drained developer limits | InfoWorld
• Amazon Cloud Chief: Replacing Junior Staff With AI Is 'Dumbest' Idea - Business Insider
• AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea
• HR giant Workday says hackers stole personal data in recent breach | TechCrunch
• AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong
•  free senior engineer level code reviews right in your IDE
• Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation
• Vibe code with AWS databases using Vercel v0
• Enhanced throttling observability in Amazon DynamoDB
• Under the hood: how AWS Lambda SnapStart optimizes function startup latency
• AWS Security Incident Response introduces integrations with ITSM
• Amazon Cognito adds terms of use and privacy policy documents support to Managed Login
• AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides customizable Dashboards
• AWS Billing and Cost Management Console adds new recommended actions
• Amazon VPC IPAM adds in-console CloudWatch alarm management
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