Last Week In AWS Podcast

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

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• AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN now support 1:1 NAT
• Amazon EMR on EKS reduces EMR charge by 30 percent
• Announcing the AWS Marketplace and Amazon Business unified storefront
• Understanding AWS Savings Plans Recommendations: Management vs. Member Account Views
• The New York Times cut Oracle migration time from 18 to 5 months
• Preparing for large-scale live streaming events on AWS — Part 1
• Introducing Route 53 Resolved IP Validation for AWS Network Firewall
• Nine AWS Bulletins, Mostly From the Agent Pile

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

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• Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support On-Demand Capacity Reservation
• Amazon CloudWatch Omni is now available in additional AWS Regions
• AWS announces TorchNeuron: Native PyTorch Support for AWS Trainium (Public Beta)
• AWS announces AWS Interconnect - last mile preview with Megaport
• Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support disassociating replicas
• Your last hardware decision shouldn’t decide what you build next.
• AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally available
• Introducing Amazon ECS Gateway: A fully-managed ingress solution for ECS services
• Your CFO wants SAP AI results next quarter – here’s where to start
• Using AWS WAF to apply mitigations for PHP2Shell RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619)
• Updating encryption on existing Amazon S3 objects with S3 Batch Operations
• Ten AWS Security Bulletins, One Bad Afternoon

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 19th, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Amazon Quick now supports brand templates for on-brand presentations and documents
• Amazon S3 is now available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel
• AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Dashboards now support Amazon Bedrock product attributes
• AWS now lets customers sign up for AWS and pay invoices using ACH direct debit
• Announcing Blockchain Snapshots on AWS for node bootstrapping
• Amazon Route 53 now supports registrations, transfers, and renewals for Premium Domains
• Amazon Time Sync Service adds support for microsecond-accurate time on 135 additional EC2 instance types in all commercial regions
• Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports timestamp-based stream processing
• Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions
• Build AWS Marketplace SaaS metering with the metering agent skill
• Reducing cross-AZ latency with the AWS Lambda metadata endpoint
• Six AWS security bulletins, one recurring mistake

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

Links:

• GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring is now included in the AWS Security Hub Threat Analytics plan
• AWS Capabilities by Region now offers availability notifications for individual features and advanced filters
• All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS
• Introducing EC2 AMI Tag Sharing: Share EC2 tags across AWS accounts
• Powering predictable costs with AWS Direct Connect flat-rate pricing
• Introducing Strands Box: AI agent sandboxes powered by Dogwood
• Eight AWS Security Bulletins, One Bad Week for Defaults

AWS Morning Brief for the week ofOctober 5th, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports public endpoints
• AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides billing context for your account through a new API
• Uncover blind spots in AWS data plane operations with CloudTrail Event Coverage
• AWS Service Availability Updates
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now lets you estimate bytes scanned before running a query
• AWS Budgets now supports email verification for notification subscribers
• Running multi-day AZ evacuation drills with ARC Zonal Shift
• Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake
• Announcing AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered intelligence to optimize your cloud environment (preview)
• Introducing filtered export from Amazon DynamoDB to Amazon S3
• What’s next for Research and Engineering Studio on AWS
• Routing UDP to on-premises Network Load Balancer targets
• Introducing the Dogwood Local Engine: temporal governance for agent actions
• AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Demonstrating an independent operation
• AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Demonstrating an independent operation

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

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• AWS Network Security Manager is now generally available in US East (N. Virginia) Region
• AWS PrivateLink announces Tunnel Endpoints to access network segments
• Wrong, not broken
• Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads
• Introducing enhanced custom event buses in Amazon EventBridge for enterprise-scale event-driven applications
• Adding custom domains to AWS Lambda MicroVMs with Application Load Balancer
• Running self-hosted AI agent sandboxes with AWS Lambda MicroVMs
• How BMW Group detects cost anomalies across 14,000 cloud accounts
• Four AWS CVEs in a row, escalating nicely

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

Links:

• AWS Direct Connect announces flat-rate pricing for dedicated connections
• AWS improves regional resiliency for root user sign-in
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces Cluster Mode
• AWS reimagines the getting started experience
• New low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances are generally available
• Reduce time-to-hire for quality candidates with AI-powered Amazon Connect Talent
• AWS STS simplifies session token size limits and adds session token size monitoring
• Seven AWS CVEs and the client-side patching tax

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 14th with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon API Gateway now supports 1 MB execution logs with configurable delivery destinations
• Amazon S3 Object Lock now supports variable retention with event holds
• Lambda's slow-motion reinvention of EC2
• Amazon EC2 now supports specifying compatible instance types on AMIs
• Announcing second-generation single-rack AWS Outposts
• How AWS thinks about FinOps Automation and Trust
• Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones across AWS accounts
• How to migrate from Amazon CloudSearch to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
• Introducing Pizza Bot, an open source inbox for AI agents that work in the background
• Three consecutive CVEs, all AWS-authored code

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 8th with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for container image functions
• Amazon CloudWatch now supports warm-up periods for alarms
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces data delivery to general purpose Amazon S3 buckets
• Amazon Linux 2027 is now available in public preview
• Amazon CloudFront announces API support for flat-rate pricing plans
• AAA games on a $35 stick: How Luna removes the hardware barrier with AWS
• How t54 built a trust layer with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments
• Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS
• Tokenomics at scale: How Jamf built real-time spend enforcement for Amazon Bedrock
• How PGA TOUR automated live profanity detection with AWS using Amazon Transcribe
• AWS and Microsoft Azure collaborate to expand multicloud networking
• We invited a direct competitor into Security Hub Extended. Here’s why.
• Detect stalled Amazon S3 live replication to prevent unexpected storage costs
• Six AWS security bulletins in five days

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 31st, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• AWS Lambda functions now support full IAM resource-based policies
• AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) now supports budget controls and finding revalidation
• AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Cisco Security Platform and Netskope
• Automating filtered Cost and Usage Report exports with AWS Data Exports
• AWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support
• Happy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2
• I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI.
• AWS and DuckLabs: Building the future of analytics together
• State of Kansas modernizes mainframe file transfer using AWS Transfer Family
• Five AWS security bulletins, zero AWS-side fixes