Last Week In AWS Podcast

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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. 

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• 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

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 12th, with Corey Quinn. 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 22, 2025, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Automate java performance troubleshooting with AI-Powered thread dump analysis on Amazon ECS and EKS
• Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructure
• Optimize WordPress performance on Amazon EKS with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
• AWS reduces publishing time for Carbon Footprint Data to 21 days or Less
• AWS Payment Cryptography reduces API pricing by up to 63% and introduces tiered key pricing
• Key Commitment Issues in S3 Encryption Clients
• Coursera and AWS survey reveals how technology leaders navigate cloud and AI transformation
• Automated extraction of compressed files on Amazon S3 using AWS Batch and Amazon ECS
• Cryptomining campaign targeting Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 15th, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Exploring the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference Framework
• Now generally available: Amazon EC2 C8gb instances
• Amazon CloudWatch SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocols
• Building national foundation models
• New report: Cloud “fundamental” for European national security and defense
• AI Increased Productivity? Consider Hiring More Developers!
• IAM Policy Autopilot: An open-source tool that brings IAM policy expertise to builders and AI coding assistants
• AWS and Google Cloud collaborate to simplify multicloud networking
• Exploring Optimize CPU feature on Amazon RDS for SQL Server
• Prometheus MCP Server: AI-Driven Monitoring Intelligence for AWS Users