Last Week In AWS Podcast

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. 

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• 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

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 12th with Mike Julian. 

Links:

• Introducing AWS End User Messaging
• Amazon EFS now supports up to 30 GiB/s (a 50% increase) of read throughput
• Amazon RDS for Db2 supports loading data from Amazon S3
• AWS announces private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnets
• Announcing delegated administrator for Cost Optimization Hub
• OpenSearch optimized instance (OR1) is game changing for indexing performance and cost

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 5th with Mike Julian. 

Links:

• Introducing AWS End User Messaging
• AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances now support hibernation
• New Amazon CloudWatch dimensions for Amazon EC2 On Demand Capacity Reservations
• AWS and Multicloud: Existing capabilities & continued enhancements
• Deliver Amazon CloudWatch logs to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
• Cost Optimizer for Amazon WorkSpaces 2.7 released
• Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist at AWS, confirms service deprecations via Twitter

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 29th, with Mike Julian.

Links:

• Amazon VPC IPAM now supports BYOIP for IPs registered with any Internet Registry
• AWS Cost Categories now supports “Billing Entity” dimension 
• Enhance database performance with Amazon RDS dedicated log volumes
• QLDB deprecation--more on the way?

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 22nd, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports logging of all events in AWS CloudTrail
• AWS Cloud Control API now supports IPv6
• AWS Private CA now supports ARM architecture in Kubernetes
• How Volkswagen streamlined access to data across multiple data lakes using Amazon DataZone – Part 1
• Migrate an Amazon QLDB Ledger to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL