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

Links:

• Amazon Aurora launches Global Database writer endpoint
• Amazon Connect now offers screen sharing
• Amazon EKS endpoints now support connectivity over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
• AWS IAM Identity Center simplifies calls to AWS services with single identity context
• EC2 Image Builder now supports building and testing macOS images
• Introducing an enhanced in-console editing experience for AWS Lambda

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

Links:

• Amazon CloudFront launches support for JA4 fingerprinting
• Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now supports live migration-based host maintenance
• Amazon EFS now supports up to 60 GiB/s (a 2x increase) of read throughput
• Announcing Amazon Q in AWS Supply Chain
• Amazon S3 adds new Region and bucket name filtering for the ListBuckets API
• Assign billing of your shared Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
• AWS Resource Explorer introduces new API to list resource inventory
• AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors now provide real-time status of file transfer operations
• Finch expands support to Linux, streamlining container development across platforms
• Ubuntu Pro for EC2 Spot Instances
• Innovating with AI in Regulated Industries
• Improve public speaking skills using a generative AI-based virtual assistant with Amazon Bedrock

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

Links:

• Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey
• Amazon WorkSpaces now supports file transfer between WorkSpaces sessions and local devices
• AWS Application Composer is now AWS Infrastructure Composer
• AWS CodePipeline introduces new general purpose compute action
• AWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops between Lambda and Amazon S3
• Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally available
• How to identify inactive users of Amazon Q Developer
• Transitioning off Amazon Lookout for Metrics
• Sign-in to AWS Console Mobile Application with an AWS Access Portal or third-party IdP URL
• How AWS uses active defense to help protect customers from security threats

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

Links:

• AWS CloudShell extends most recent capabilities to all commercial Regions
• Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 now supports up to 256 ACUs
• Amazon S3 adds Service Quotas support for S3 general purpose buckets
• AWS announces Reserved Nodes flexibility for Amazon ElastiCache
• Duckbill Guide to AWS Reserved Instances
• Deprecation of Lake Formation’s Governed Tables Feature
• Announcing AWS Neuron Helm Chart
• Leverage IAM Roles for email sending via SES from EC2 and eliminate a common credential risk
• Issue with NVIDIA Container Toolkit (CVE-2024-0132, CVE-2024-0133)

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 30, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports RDS Data API
• Introducing Amazon EC2 C8g and M8g Instances
• Amazon EC2 Instance Connect now supports IPv6
• Amazon SNS now delivers SMS text messages via AWS End User Messaging
• AWS CloudFormation Git sync now supports pull request workflows to review your stack changes
• AWS CloudTrail launches network activity events for VPC endpoints (preview)
• AWS Serverless Application Repository now supports AWS PrivateLink
• AWS announces general availability for Security Group Referencing on AWS Transit Gateway
• Generative AI Cost Optimization Strategies
• Customizing your HPC environment: building AMIs for AWS Parallel Computing Service
• Making traffic lights more efficient with Amazon Rekognition
• Whose contract is it anyway? How AWS Marketplace works
• Switch your file share access from Amazon FSx File Gateway to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 23, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• AWS Transfer Family increases throughput and file sizes supported by SFTP connectors 
• AWS WAF Bot Control Managed Rule expands bot detection capabilities 
• AWS named as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS)
• Announcing General Availability of the AWS SDK for Swift 
• Reinventing the Amazon Q Developer agent for software development 
• Support for AWS DeepComposer ending soon 
• Unlock AWS Cost and Usage insights with generative AI powered by Amazon Bedrock 
• AWS Welcomes the OpenSearch Software Foundation 
• The Rise of Chatbots: Revolutionizing Customer Engagement 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 16, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Amazon EC2 P5e instances are generally available via EC2 Capacity Blocks
• Announcing Storage Browser for Amazon S3 for your web applications (alpha release)
• Building a privacy preserving chatbot with Amazon Bedrock
• Faster development with Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Q Developer
• Linux Support Updates for AWS CLI v2
• Best prompting practices for using Meta Llama 3 with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart 
• Build a RAG-based QnA application using Llama3 models from SageMaker JumpStart
• Optimizing Amazon S3 data transfers over Direct Connect
• New whitepaper available: Building security from the ground up with Secure by Design
• Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
• Opt out from all supported AWS AI services
• Oracle and Amazon Web Services Announce Strategic Partnership

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

Links:

• Organizational Units in AWS Control Tower can now contain up to 1,000 accounts
• Amazon SES announces enhanced onboarding with adaptive setup wizard and Virtual Deliverability Manager
• AWS Glue now provides job queuing 
• AWS Network Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout
• AWS named as a Leader in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants
• AWS to highlight generative AI, cloud advancements at IBC 2024

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 3rd, with Mike Julian. 

Links:

• Amazon Braket adds support for Rigetti's 84-Qubit Ankaa™-2 system, our largest gate-based superconducting device
• Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances
• Amazon EC2 status checks now support reachability health of attached EBS volumes
• Amazon EMR support prioritized and capacity-optimized-prioritized allocation strategies for EC2 instances
• Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Graviton3 (C7g, M7g, R7g, R7gd) instances 
• AWS announces Amazon-provided contiguous IPv4 blocks
• Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes
• Amazon S3 adds additional context to HTTP 403 Access Denied error messages
• Amazon S3 no longer charges for several HTTP error codes
• AWS CodeBuild now supports Mac builds
• AWS Identity and Access Management now supports AWS PrivateLink in all commercial Regions
• AWS Network Firewall introduces GeoIP Filtering to inspect traffic based on geographic location
• Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service
• Now open — AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
• AWS Lambda introduces recursive loop detection APIs
• Announcing AWS KMS Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) support

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 19th with Mike Julian. 

Links:

• How AWS powered Prime Day 2024 for record-breaking sales
• New capabilities for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations: Split, Move, and Modify additional attributes
• Amazon QuickSight now includes nested filters
• Announcing Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class support on Amazon EMR
• Amazon Verified Permissions improves support for OIDC identity providers
• AWS announces support for Cost Allocation Tags on AWS Transit Gateway
• Announcing Karpenter 1.0
• Visualize enterprise IP address management and planning with CIDR map