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 - 
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• 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