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

Links:

•  Firefly’s 2025 IaC Best Practices Guide
• 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