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

Links:

• Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now available with the AWS Free Tier
• Amazon EKS announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement and new 8XL scaling tier for Provisioned Control Plane clusters
• AWS Lambda increases the file descriptor limit to 4,096 for functions running on Lambda Managed Instances
• The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now supports automatic query caching with Valkey
• Announcing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL serverless database creation in seconds
• Enhancing auto scaling resilience by tracking worker utilization metrics
• Amazon CloudFront flat-rate pricing plans: new features and expanded capabilities
• IAM policy types: How and when to use them
• Preparing for agentic AI: A financial services approach

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

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• Amazon Corretto 26 is now generally available
• Amazon SimpleDB now supports exporting domain data to Amazon S3
• AWS CDK Mixins is now generally available
• AWS Lambda Managed Instances now supports Rust
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports log ingestion using HTTP-based protocol
• AWS Lambda now supports Availability Zone metadata
• Expanding the BOX Program to Business Consulting and Advisory Partners
• Twenty years of Amazon S3 and building what’s next
• Synchronizing a Backup on-premises Db2 Server with Amazon RDS for Db2
• AWS and NVIDIA deepen strategic collaboration to accelerate AI from pilot to production
• Migrate from Amazon Nova 1 to Amazon Nova 2 on Amazon Bedrock
• Essential security controls to prevent unauthorized account removal in AWS Organizations
• Demystifying Amazon VPC peering charges
• AWS and Others Invest $12.5M to Defend the Open Source Ecosystem from AI Threats
• Amazon threat intelligence teams identify Interlock ransomware campaign targeting enterprise firewalls
• 20 years of Amazon S3: A storage professional’s journey to AWS Hero
• CVE-2026-4270 - AWS API MCP File Access Restriction Bypass
• CVE-2026-4269 - Improper S3 ownership verification in Bedrock AgentCore Starter Toolkit
• Arbitrary code execution via crafted project files in Kiro IDE
• CVE-2026-4428: Issues with AWS-LC - CRL Distribution Point Scope Check Logic Error

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

Links:

• Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces increased query concurrency and API limits
• Introducing Amazon Connect Health, Agentic AI Built for Healthcare
• Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver is now generally available
• AWS simplifies IAM role creation and setup in service workflows
• Database Savings Plans now supports Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Neptune Analytics
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk launches Deployments tab with in-progress deployment logs
• Multi-party approval now supports approval team baselining
• AWS announces pricing for VPC Encryption Controls
• The Hidden Price Tag: Uncovering Hidden Costs in Cloud Architectures with the AWS Well-Architected Framework

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

Links:

• Amazon Aurora DSQL launches Playground for interactive database exploration
•  Amazon Redshift Serverless introduces 3-year Serverless Reservations
• Amazon S3 now provides AWS source region information in server access logs
•  AWS Compute Optimizer now applies AWS-generated tags to EBS snapshots created during automation
• AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java now available in Developer Preview
• AWS Trusted Advisor now delivers more accurate unused NAT Gateway checks powered by AWS Compute Optimizer
• 6,000 AWS accounts, three people, one platform: Lessons learned
• Petabyte-Scale Cost Optimization: How a Video Hosting Platform Saved 70% on S3
• Transform live video for mobile audiences with AWS Elemental Inference
•  Migrate Amazon EC2 to ECS Express Mode using Kiro CLI and MCP servers
•  AI-augmented threat actor accesses FortiGate devices at scale
• AWS posts “correct the record” piece on AI bot outage

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

Links:

• Amazon Bedrock expands support for AWS PrivateLink
• AWS CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules eliminate alert fatigue
• Amazon EC2 supports nested virtualization on virtual Amazon EC2 instances
• Announcing Amazon DocumentDB long-term support (LTS) on 5.0
• AWS Certificate Manager updates default certificate validity to comply with new guidelines
• Claude Sonnet 4.6 now available in Amazon Bedrock
• Kiro is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
• Amazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now available
• Introducing VPC encryption controls: Enforce encryption in transit within and across VPCs in a Region
• Migrating from AWS App Runner to Amazon ECS Express Mode
• Introducing Agent Plugins for AWS
• Build unified intelligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
• Reduce unexpected AWS costs: Tracing AWS billing charges with log correlation techniques

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 17th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available in additional AWS Regions
• Amazon Bedrock adds support for six fully-managed open weights models
• AWS Config now supports 30 new resource types
• Announcing new Amazon EC2 general purpose M8azn instances
• AWS Network Firewall announces new price reductions
• Amazon S3 Tables add partition and sort order definition in the CreateTable API
• Amazon Athena adds 1-minute reservations and new capacity control features
• Building fault-tolerant applications with AWS Lambda durable functions
•  Simplify cross-account stream processing with AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB
• Automated Reasoning checks rewriting chatbot reference implementation
• Mastering Amazon Bedrock throttling and service availability: A comprehensive guide
• Reservoir computing on an analog Rydberg-atom quantum computer

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

Links:

• Change the server-side encryption type of Amazon S3 objects
• Announcing memory-optimized instance bundles for Amazon Lightsail
• Amazon RDS now provides an enhanced console experience to connect to a database
• AWS Multi-party approval now requires one-time password verification for voting
• AWS Management Console now displays Account Name on the Navigation bar
• Structured outputs now available in Amazon Bedrock
• Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances with up to 22.8 TB local NVMe storage are generally available
•  AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication for AWS account access and application use
• Trigger AWS Lambda functions from Amazon RDS for SQL Server database events
• Amazon CloudFront now supports mTLS authentication to origins
• Bevar Ukraine: Empowering Ukrainian refugees with AI-powered support on AWS
• Security Findings in SageMaker Python SDK

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

Links:

• AWS Network Firewall now supports GenAI traffic visibility and enforcement with Web category-based filtering
• More room to build: serverless services now support payloads up to 1 MB
• Introducing pre-warming for Amazon Keyspaces tables
• Managing IP address exhaustion for Amazon RDS Proxy
• Strategies for upgrading Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL from version 13
• File integrity monitoring with AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Security Lake

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 26th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• AWS on Customer Choice & Multicloud
• AWS Adds Policy Details to Access Denied Errors
• Amazon ECR Cross-Repository Layer Sharing
• Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments (<5s downtime)
• S3 Storage Lens Now in GovCloud (US)
• Enterprise-Scale Migration to Apache Iceberg
• Kafka-Based Oracle LOB Migration to AWS
• Aurora PostgreSQL Shared Plan Cache

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 20th, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Unanchored ACCOUNT_ID webhook filters for CodeBuild
• Amazon EBS now supports up to four Elastic Volumes modifications in 24 hours
• AWS Databases are now available on v0 by Vercel
• AWS Lambda announces cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams
• Enhanced Transactions view now available in AWS Billing Console
• AWS Data Exports adds granular operation visibility for Amazon Bedrock model usage
• Amazon EC2 X8i instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors are generally available
• Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
• AWS Organizations now supports upgrade rollout policy for Aurora and RDS
• Provision Oracle Database@AWS stack using AWS CloudFormation
• CLI v1 Maintenance Mode Announcement
• CVE-2026-0830: Command Injection in Kiro GitLab Merge Request Helper