Last Week In AWS Podcast

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 29th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. 

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• You can now preview Amazon S3 Tables in the S3 console
• AWS Organizations supports full IAM policy language for service control policies (SCPs)
• Amazon Route 53 Resolver Query Logging now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand)
• A guide to reducing waste and improving efficiency with AWS
• Amazon RDS announces cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copy
• AWS announces EC2 instance attestation
• Humane World for Animals uses AWS to scale global animal welfare programs
•  deprecating its SOAP API
• Prompt Library | AWS Startups
• AWS named as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants

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

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• Qwen models are now available in Amazon Bedrock
• AWS Budgets now supports custom time periods
• Amazon CloudWatch launches Cross-Account and Cross-Region Log Centralization
• Amazon S3 now supports conditional deletes in S3 general purpose buckets
• New fault action in AWS FIS to inject I/O latency on Amazon EBS volumes
• AWS has once again announced a change (in this case, changing the email address from which invoices show up), only to walk it back prior to implementation.
• Use Raspberry Pi 5 as Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes for edge workloads
• Malware Protection for S3 Expands File Size and Archive Scanning Limits
• AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container Management
• Migrate from Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet to Claude 4 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 15th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Enforcing organization-wide Amazon S3 bucket-tagging policies
• ECS Exec is now available in the AWS Management Console
• AWS Control Tower now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
• Introducing AWS CDK Refactor (Preview)
• Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE
• AWS WAF now includes free WAF Vended Logs based on request volume
• AWS recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) with Amazon Connect
• Introducing universal installers for AWS CLI v2 on macOS

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

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• Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29
• AWS IAM launches new VPC endpoint condition keys for network perimeter controls
• RDS Data API now supports IPv6
• Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
• AWS Resource Explorer is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
• Protect your Amazon Route 53 DNS zones and records 
• Efficiently verify Amazon S3 data at scale with compute checksum operation
• AWS Elemental celebrates 10 years of innovation
• Choosing the right AWS live streaming solution for your use case

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 2nd, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

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• How Ancestry optimizes a 100-billion-row Iceberg table
• Mastering Amazon Q Developer with Rules 
• Bob’s Used Books: Build a .NET Serverless Application on AWS – Part 2: Architecture
• How Amazon Finance built an AI assistant using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Kendra to support analysts for data discovery and business insights 
• Building Your Open Source Commercial Strategy with AWS
• How to optimize Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora database costs/performance with AWS Compute Optimizer
• Gracefully handle failed AWS Lambda events from Amazon DynamoDB Streams
• Announcing the AWS Billing and Cost Management MCP server
• AWS joins the DocumentDB project to build interoperable, open source document database technology
• Count Tokens API supported for Anthropic’s Claude models now in Amazon Bedrock

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 25th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

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• AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy
• SQL injection vulnerability in the AWS Aurora DSQL MCP Server | by Michael Kandelaars | Aug, 2025 | Medium
• Top AWS chip engineer reportedly defects to Arm
• Copilot Broke Your Audit Log, but Microsoft Won’t Tell You - Pistachio Blog - Cybersecurity Awareness Training
• AWS blames bug for Kiro pricing glitch that drained developer limits | InfoWorld
• Amazon Cloud Chief: Replacing Junior Staff With AI Is 'Dumbest' Idea - Business Insider
• AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea
• HR giant Workday says hackers stole personal data in recent breach | TechCrunch
• AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong
•  free senior engineer level code reviews right in your IDE
• Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation
• Vibe code with AWS databases using Vercel v0
• Enhanced throttling observability in Amazon DynamoDB
• Under the hood: how AWS Lambda SnapStart optimizes function startup latency
• AWS Security Incident Response introduces integrations with ITSM
• Amazon Cognito adds terms of use and privacy policy documents support to Managed Login
• AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides customizable Dashboards
• AWS Billing and Cost Management Console adds new recommended actions
• Amazon VPC IPAM adds in-console CloudWatch alarm management
• https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 18th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. 

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• a billion dollars in savings 
• highlights why I'm wrong
• Demystifying Amazon Bedrock Pricing for a Chatbot Assistant
• Improving Your Visibility to AWS Sales: A Practical Guide for Partners
• Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in Amazon Bedrock Expanded Context Window
• Amazon EC2 Single GPU P5 instances are now generally available 
• Announcing Extended Support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 3.6
• CVE-2025-8904 - Issue with Amazon EMR Secret Agent component
• Amazon DynamoDB now supports more frequent throughput mode updates from provisioned to on-demand capacity 
• Validate radiology reports using Amazon Nova
• Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
• AWS Resource Explorer now Supports Filtering for Multiple Values
• AWS IAM Identity Center introduces support for user background sessions with Amazon SageMaker Studio 
• Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports decreasing your SSD storage capacity 
• AWS Security Incident Response now supports membership coverage for individual AWS organizational units
• Understanding AWS Savings Plan Recommendations: Payer vs. Linked Account Views 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 11th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

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• AWS Cloud Visibility Best Practices
• This Ars article
• AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens
• Amazon killing a user’s account
• Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver v2: Accelerated performance and improved resource usage for Kubernetes workloads
• Streamlining outbound emails with Amazon SES Mail Manager
• AWS Lambda now supports GitHub Actions to simplify function deployment
• Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 now in Amazon Bedrock
• Amazon CloudWatch introduces organization-wide VPC flow logs enablement
• Understanding and Remediating Cold Starts: An AWS Lambda Perspective
• Amazon SQS increases maximum message payload size to 1 MiB
• OpenAI open weight models now available on AWS 
• Best practices for analyzing AWS Config recording frequencies
• Amazon EKS adds safety control to prevent accidental cluster deletion
• AWS Console Mobile App now offers access to AWS Support
• Amazon EC2 now supports force terminate for EC2 instances 
• Amazon DynamoDB adds support for Console-to-Code
• Using generative AI for building AWS networks
• Simplify network connectivity using Tailscale with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes
• Cost tracking multi-tenant model inference on Amazon Bedrock

 AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 4th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. 

• Amazon Aurora MySQL database clusters now support up to 256 TiB of storage volume 
• Introducing v2 of Powertools for AWS Lambda (Java)
• Introducing Extended Support for Amazon ElastiCache version 4 and version 5 for Redis OSS
• Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available 
• AWS Lambda response streaming now supports 200 MB response payloads
• How Zapier runs isolated tasks on AWS Lambda and upgrades functions at scale
• Amazon Application Recovery Controller now supports Region switch
• Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6f instances with fractional GPUs
• Amazon Promotes Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, Unveils 17th Leadership Principle
• Amazon CloudFront introduces new origin response timeout controls
• Optimize traffic costs of Amazon MSK consumers on Amazon EKS with rack awareness
• Amazon Bedrock now available in the US West (N. California) Region
• New AWS whitepaper: AWS User Guide to Financial Services Regulations and Guidelines in Australia 
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds AWS Lambda functions as notification targets for lifecycle hooks

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 28th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

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• Launching Amazon CloudWatch generative AI observability (Preview) 
• Amazon CloudWatch adds IPv6 support
• Boost cold-start recommendations with vLLM on AWS Trainium 
• AWS Private CA now supports issuing up to 100 million certificates per CA 
• Amazon Connect announces per-day pricing for external voice connectors 
• Amazon RDS for Db2 adds support for group-based authorization with self-managed Active Directory 
• Manage multi-tenant Amazon Bedrock costs using application inference profiles
• Simplify serverless development with console to IDE and remote debugging for AWS Lambda | AWS News Blog 
• AWS Generative AI for Developers Professional Certificate 
• Simplify AWS Organization Tag Policies using new wildcard statement  
• Security Update for Amazon Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code (Version #1.84) 
• Cost Optimization Hub now supports account names in optimization opportunities 
• Year One of Valkey: Open-Source Innovations and ElastiCache version 8.1 for Valkey - 
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• AWS Security Incident Response: The customer’s journey to accelerating the incident response lifecycle 
• AWS Service Reference Information now supports actions for last accessed services - 
• Five facts about how the CLOUD Act actually works | AWS Security Blog 
• Bob’s Used Books: Build a .NET Serverless Application on AWS, Part 1: Deployment and Setup 
• Amazon EC2 now supports skipping the operating system shutdown when stopping or terminating instances 
• New whitepaper available: AICPA SOC 2 Compliance Guide on AWS 
• Why 2025 is the Inflection Point for AWS Cloud Migration 
• Beyond IAM access keys: Modern authentication approaches for AWS 
• Introducing SRA Verify – an AWS Security Reference Architecture assessment tool 
• Supercharging Ad Creative with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Nova: How AI is Revolutionizing Content Generation for Advertising & Marketing Use-Cases
• Building resilient multi-tenant systems with Amazon SQS fair queues 
• How Truth For Life transformed its viewer analytics while optimizing costs