Last Week In AWS Podcast

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 6th, 2024, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon DynamoDB now supports an AWS FIS action to pause global table replication 
• Amazon Q launches subscription management with AWS IAM Identity Center integration 
• AWS CodeArtifact now supports RubyGems
• AWS Config simplifies usage analysis with Amazon CloudWatch metrics 
• Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Honolulu, Hawaii
• Announcing the general availability of Amazon Q Business and Amazon Q Apps (Preview) 
• AWS supports dynamically removing and adding auto assigned public IPv4 address
• Introducing file commit history in Amazon CodeCatalyst
• Amazon EC2 now protects your AMIs from accidental deregistration 
• Amazon EC2 simplifies visibility into your active AMIs 
• Amazon EFS increases maximum per-client throughput to 1.5 GiB/s 
• Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall now supports Domain Redirection 
• Blockchain node deployment on AWS: A comprehensive guide 
• How to Send MMS Using Amazon Pinpoint
• Flowpipe: A Cloud Scripting Engine for DevOps Workflows
• JPMorgan Chase and AWS study the prospects for quantum speedups with near-term Rydberg atom arrays 
• Technology that teaches empathy? How mpathic uses AI to help us listen to each other 
• AWS: Amazon engineer helps stop cyberattacks, inspires cat culture

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 29th, 2024, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon GameLift now includes containers support (Preview)
• Introducing Amazon Route 53 Profiles 
• Amazon Simple Email Service is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region 
• Amazon Time Sync Service expands Microsecond-Accurate time to 87 additonal EC2 instance types
• How to Migrate Content from Amazon WorkDocs 
• Build and deploy a 1 TB/s file system in under an hour
• AWS Response to March 2024 CSRB report 
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 22, 2024, with Corey Quinn. 

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• AWS IAM Identity Center adds independent 90-days session duration for Amazon CodeWhisperer 
• Deloitte and AWS Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate Cloud Adoption in Growth Markets
• Improve cost visibility of Amazon EKS with AWS Split Cost Allocation Data 
• Congratulations to the PartyRock generative AI hackathon winners 
• Access Amazon RDS across AWS accounts using AWS PrivateLink, Network Load Balancer, and Amazon RDS Proxy
• Programmatic approach to optimize the cost of Amazon RDS snapshots 
• Reduce cost and improve performance by migrating to Amazon DocumentDB 5.0
• A secure approach to generative AI with AWS 
• AWS celebrates big technology wins at NAB 2024 
• New AWS survey reveals the link between AI fluency and the next education revolution
• CVE-2024-28056
• Creating shortcut links to AWS Management Console destinations - AWS IAM Identity Center 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of 04/15/24, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon Route 53 adds support for 18 additional Top-Level Domains 
• Announcing AWS Transfer Family workshop for building secure file transfer solutions using SFTP
• New AWS monetization solution demonstrations at NAB Show 2024 
• Optimizing AWS Backup costs

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 8, 2024, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring is now generally available
• Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces new pricing for training tabular models 
• Introducing AWS CodeConnections, formerly known as AWS CodeStar Connections -
• Amazon CloudWatch now supports cross-account anomaly detection 
• Amazon EKS extended support for Kubernetes versions now generally
• Announcing AWS Deadline Cloud 
• AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for CloudWatch custom dashboards
• AWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 3.3 
• Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6 instances 
• Announcing per-second billing for EC2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-based instances 
• Why AWS Supports Valkey
• AWS Activate credits now accepted for third-party models on Amazon Bedrock 
• DoorDash saves millions annually using Amazon S3 Storage Lens 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 1, 2024, with Corey Quinn. 

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• AI recommendations for descriptions in Amazon DataZone now generally available
• Amazon DynamoDB Import from S3 now supports up to 50,000 Amazon S3 objects in a single bulk import
• Amazon Time Sync Service now supports microsecond-accurate time in US East (N. Virginia) Region 
• AWS Billing and Cost Management Data Exports now supports AWS CloudFormation 
• AWS Compute Optimizer introduces memory customizability for EC2 rightsizing recommendations
• AWS Cost Allocation Tags now support retroactive application
• Estimating the charges for Amazon RDS Extended Support
• Amazon completes $4B Anthropic investment to advance generative AI 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 25, 2024, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS PrivateLink
• Amazon WorkMail now supports Audit Logging
• AWS announces a 7-day window to return Savings Plans 
• AWS CodeBuild now supports custom images for AWS Lambda compute
• EC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts now provide visibility into supported macOS versions
• Invoke AWS Lambda functions from cross-account Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
• Traeger Grills’s Customer Experience team drives customer satisfaction significantly using Amazon QuickSight 
• Bulk update Amazon DynamoDB tables with AWS Step Functions 
• Simplify cross-account access control with Amazon DynamoDB using resource-based policies 
• How to securely provide access to centralized AWS CloudTrail Lake logs across accounts in your organization
• How to optimize DNS for dual-stack networks
• Introducing mTLS for Application Load Balancer 
• 6 foundational capabilities you need for generative AI
• It’s time to evolve IT procurement
• AWS and NVIDIA extend their collaboration to advance generative AI

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 18, 2024 with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon EFS now supports up to 20 GiB/s of throughput
• Amazon SES now offers support for headers when sending email
• AWS announces Aurora MySQL integration with Amazon Bedrock for Generative AI 
• AWS Backup now supports restore testing for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive 
• Experience up to 40% faster stack creation with AWS CloudFormation
• AWS Cost Categories launches a revamped user interface 
• Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model is now available on Amazon Bedrock
• New European study: AI skills will significantly boost productivity and salaries

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 11, 2024, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Start your Engines! Announcing the 2024 AWS DeepRacer League
• Accelerate no-code ML with a refreshed homepage in Amazon SageMaker Canvas
• AWS re:Post introduces re:Post Live 
• How Accenture Accelerates Building a Secure Cloud Foundation Natively on AWS 
  • Accenture scored itself an S3 bucket negligence award 
• Revolutionize Your Business with AWS Generative AI Competency Partners
• Amazon RDS now supports io2 Block Express volumes for mission-critical database workloads
• Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS 
• Unlocking Innovation: AWS and Anthropic push the boundaries of generative AI together
• The benefits of running controlled substance databases with AWS
• Introducing the AWS WAF traffic overview dashboard 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 4, 2024 with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon CloudFront announces availability of Embedded Points of Presence 
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports IPv6
• Amazon Data Firehose adds message extraction feature for decompressed CloudWatch Logs 
• Amazon EC2 m7i.metal-24xl instance is now generally available for VMware Cloud on AWS
• Amazon EKS announces support for Amazon Linux 2023
• AWS announces Amazon Neptune I/O-Optimized 
• AWS Batch now offers multi-container jobs 
• New AWS Region in Mexico is in the works 
• Engage online sports fans with live event commentary using generative AI on Amazon Bedrock
• Delivering Business Value with Cloud Platform Teams 
• The Power of Cloud Storage for Small and Medium Businesses: Unlocking Efficiency and Security