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
• https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 18th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• a billion dollars in savings 
• highlights why I'm wrong
• Demystifying Amazon Bedrock Pricing for a Chatbot Assistant
• Improving Your Visibility to AWS Sales: A Practical Guide for Partners
• Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in Amazon Bedrock Expanded Context Window
• Amazon EC2 Single GPU P5 instances are now generally available 
• Announcing Extended Support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 3.6
• CVE-2025-8904 - Issue with Amazon EMR Secret Agent component
• Amazon DynamoDB now supports more frequent throughput mode updates from provisioned to on-demand capacity 
• Validate radiology reports using Amazon Nova
• Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
• AWS Resource Explorer now Supports Filtering for Multiple Values
• AWS IAM Identity Center introduces support for user background sessions with Amazon SageMaker Studio 
• Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports decreasing your SSD storage capacity 
• AWS Security Incident Response now supports membership coverage for individual AWS organizational units
• Understanding AWS Savings Plan Recommendations: Payer vs. Linked Account Views 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 11th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

Links: 

• AWS Cloud Visibility Best Practices
• This Ars article
• AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens
• Amazon killing a user’s account
• Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver v2: Accelerated performance and improved resource usage for Kubernetes workloads
• Streamlining outbound emails with Amazon SES Mail Manager
• AWS Lambda now supports GitHub Actions to simplify function deployment
• Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 now in Amazon Bedrock
• Amazon CloudWatch introduces organization-wide VPC flow logs enablement
• Understanding and Remediating Cold Starts: An AWS Lambda Perspective
• Amazon SQS increases maximum message payload size to 1 MiB
• OpenAI open weight models now available on AWS 
• Best practices for analyzing AWS Config recording frequencies
• Amazon EKS adds safety control to prevent accidental cluster deletion
• AWS Console Mobile App now offers access to AWS Support
• Amazon EC2 now supports force terminate for EC2 instances 
• Amazon DynamoDB adds support for Console-to-Code
• Using generative AI for building AWS networks
• Simplify network connectivity using Tailscale with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes
• Cost tracking multi-tenant model inference on Amazon Bedrock

 AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 4th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. 

• Amazon Aurora MySQL database clusters now support up to 256 TiB of storage volume 
• Introducing v2 of Powertools for AWS Lambda (Java)
• Introducing Extended Support for Amazon ElastiCache version 4 and version 5 for Redis OSS
• Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available 
• AWS Lambda response streaming now supports 200 MB response payloads
• How Zapier runs isolated tasks on AWS Lambda and upgrades functions at scale
• Amazon Application Recovery Controller now supports Region switch
• Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6f instances with fractional GPUs
• Amazon Promotes Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, Unveils 17th Leadership Principle
• Amazon CloudFront introduces new origin response timeout controls
• Optimize traffic costs of Amazon MSK consumers on Amazon EKS with rack awareness
• Amazon Bedrock now available in the US West (N. California) Region
• New AWS whitepaper: AWS User Guide to Financial Services Regulations and Guidelines in Australia 
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds AWS Lambda functions as notification targets for lifecycle hooks

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 28th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Launching Amazon CloudWatch generative AI observability (Preview) 
• Amazon CloudWatch adds IPv6 support
• Boost cold-start recommendations with vLLM on AWS Trainium 
• AWS Private CA now supports issuing up to 100 million certificates per CA 
• Amazon Connect announces per-day pricing for external voice connectors 
• Amazon RDS for Db2 adds support for group-based authorization with self-managed Active Directory 
• Manage multi-tenant Amazon Bedrock costs using application inference profiles
• Simplify serverless development with console to IDE and remote debugging for AWS Lambda | AWS News Blog 
• AWS Generative AI for Developers Professional Certificate 
• Simplify AWS Organization Tag Policies using new wildcard statement  
• Security Update for Amazon Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code (Version #1.84) 
• Cost Optimization Hub now supports account names in optimization opportunities 
• Year One of Valkey: Open-Source Innovations and ElastiCache version 8.1 for Valkey - 
• go listen to the audio version of this newsletter specifically for this item. 
• AWS Security Incident Response: The customer’s journey to accelerating the incident response lifecycle 
• AWS Service Reference Information now supports actions for last accessed services - 
• Five facts about how the CLOUD Act actually works | AWS Security Blog 
• Bob’s Used Books: Build a .NET Serverless Application on AWS, Part 1: Deployment and Setup 
• Amazon EC2 now supports skipping the operating system shutdown when stopping or terminating instances 
• New whitepaper available: AICPA SOC 2 Compliance Guide on AWS 
• Why 2025 is the Inflection Point for AWS Cloud Migration 
• Beyond IAM access keys: Modern authentication approaches for AWS 
• Introducing SRA Verify – an AWS Security Reference Architecture assessment tool 
• Supercharging Ad Creative with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Nova: How AI is Revolutionizing Content Generation for Advertising & Marketing Use-Cases
• Building resilient multi-tenant systems with Amazon SQS fair queues 
• How Truth For Life transformed its viewer analytics while optimizing costs

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 21st, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Amazon EBS now provides visibility into EBS volume initialization status
• The Amazon S3 console now displays an external access summary for all your buckets
• Amazon S3 Tables reduce compaction costs by up to 90%
• AWS API MCP Server now available 
• AWS Cost Anomaly Detection improves accuracy with model enhancements
• AWS Price List API now supports four new Query Filters
•  Introducing AWS AI League
• Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for AWS Price List
• Amazon S3 Metadata now supports metadata for all your S3 objects 
• AWS Free Tier update: New customers can get started and explore AWS with up to $200 in credits
• Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Securely deploy and operate AI agents at any scale (preview)
• Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors: First cloud storage with native vector support at scale (preview)
• Under the hood: Amazon EKS ultra scale clusters
• Proven Practices for Succeeding with a Multicloud Strategy
• Accenture scales video analysis with Amazon Nova and Amazon Bedrock Agents
• Coming soon: Exam update and new name for cloud operations certification

 AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 14th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• AWS Direct Connect Layer 1 Explained: From Data Centers to Cloud Connectivity
• Oracle Database@AWS announces general availability, expands networking capabilities
• Amazon Bedrock introduces API keys for streamlined development
• Announcing AWS Builder Center
• Amazon P6e-GB200 UltraServers now available for the highest GPU performance in EC2
• Quantifying the Impact of Developer Experience: Amazon’s 15.9% Breakthrough
• Establishing a European trust service provider for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
• Use K8sGPT and Amazon Bedrock for simplified Kubernetes cluster maintenance
• Evolve your Amazon DynamoDB table’s data model
• Introducing: Guidance for a media lake on AWS

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 7th, with Corey Quinn.
 
Links:

• Finch expands support to Ubuntu, streamlining container development across platforms
• Amazon CloudFront announces support for HTTPS DNS records
• Amazon Q Business launches the ability to customize responses
• Build the highest resilience apps with multi-Region strong consistency in Amazon DynamoDB global tables
• Leveling up Amazon RDS with AWS Graviton4: Benchmarks
• Build AWS architecture diagrams using Amazon Q CLI and MCP
• Using generative AI to help dog owners make smarter health decisions
• AWS Certificate Manager now supports exporting public certificates
• Remote access to AWS: A guide for hybrid workforces
• How to Use AWS Data Transfer Terminal

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, June 30th, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• What is AWS Security Hub?
• Amazon data center complex
• Code reviews in you IDE
• AWS Local Zones Features - AWS 
• Last Week in AWS Slack community
• Amazon VPC raises default Route Table capacity
• Announcing Intelligent Search for re:Post and re:Post Private
• How to Set Up Automated Alerts for Newly Purchased AWS Savings Plans
• Introducing AWS Lambda native support for Avro and Protobuf formatted Apache Kafka events

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 23rd, 2025, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• AWS IAM now enforces MFA for root users across all account types
• AWS expands resource control policies (RCPs) support to two additional services
• One Year EC2 Instance Savings Plans are now available for P5 and P5en instances
• AWS Certificate Manager introduces exportable public SSL/TLS certificates to use anywhere
• Verify internal access to critical AWS resources with new IAM Access Analyzer capabilities
• Introducing AWS CDK Community Meetings
• Rapid monitoring of Amazon S3 bucket policy changes in AWS environments
• 1Password’s New Secrets Syncing Integration With AWS | 1Password