Last Week In AWS Podcast

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 21st, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

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• Amazon EBS now provides visibility into EBS volume initialization status
• The Amazon S3 console now displays an external access summary for all your buckets
• Amazon S3 Tables reduce compaction costs by up to 90%
• AWS API MCP Server now available 
• AWS Cost Anomaly Detection improves accuracy with model enhancements
• AWS Price List API now supports four new Query Filters
•  Introducing AWS AI League
• Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for AWS Price List
• Amazon S3 Metadata now supports metadata for all your S3 objects 
• AWS Free Tier update: New customers can get started and explore AWS with up to $200 in credits
• Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Securely deploy and operate AI agents at any scale (preview)
• Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors: First cloud storage with native vector support at scale (preview)
• Under the hood: Amazon EKS ultra scale clusters
• Proven Practices for Succeeding with a Multicloud Strategy
• Accenture scales video analysis with Amazon Nova and Amazon Bedrock Agents
• Coming soon: Exam update and new name for cloud operations certification

 AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 14th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. 

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• AWS Direct Connect Layer 1 Explained: From Data Centers to Cloud Connectivity
• Oracle Database@AWS announces general availability, expands networking capabilities
• Amazon Bedrock introduces API keys for streamlined development
• Announcing AWS Builder Center
• Amazon P6e-GB200 UltraServers now available for the highest GPU performance in EC2
• Quantifying the Impact of Developer Experience: Amazon’s 15.9% Breakthrough
• Establishing a European trust service provider for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
• Use K8sGPT and Amazon Bedrock for simplified Kubernetes cluster maintenance
• Evolve your Amazon DynamoDB table’s data model
• Introducing: Guidance for a media lake on AWS

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 7th, with Corey Quinn.
 
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• Finch expands support to Ubuntu, streamlining container development across platforms
• Amazon CloudFront announces support for HTTPS DNS records
• Amazon Q Business launches the ability to customize responses
• Build the highest resilience apps with multi-Region strong consistency in Amazon DynamoDB global tables
• Leveling up Amazon RDS with AWS Graviton4: Benchmarks
• Build AWS architecture diagrams using Amazon Q CLI and MCP
• Using generative AI to help dog owners make smarter health decisions
• AWS Certificate Manager now supports exporting public certificates
• Remote access to AWS: A guide for hybrid workforces
• How to Use AWS Data Transfer Terminal

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, June 30th, with Corey Quinn. 

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• What is AWS Security Hub?
• Amazon data center complex
• Code reviews in you IDE
• AWS Local Zones Features - AWS 
• Last Week in AWS Slack community
• Amazon VPC raises default Route Table capacity
• Announcing Intelligent Search for re:Post and re:Post Private
• How to Set Up Automated Alerts for Newly Purchased AWS Savings Plans
• Introducing AWS Lambda native support for Avro and Protobuf formatted Apache Kafka events

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 23rd, 2025, with Corey Quinn. 

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• AWS IAM now enforces MFA for root users across all account types
• AWS expands resource control policies (RCPs) support to two additional services
• One Year EC2 Instance Savings Plans are now available for P5 and P5en instances
• AWS Certificate Manager introduces exportable public SSL/TLS certificates to use anywhere
• Verify internal access to critical AWS resources with new IAM Access Analyzer capabilities
• Introducing AWS CDK Community Meetings
• Rapid monitoring of Amazon S3 bucket policy changes in AWS environments
• 1Password’s New Secrets Syncing Integration With AWS | 1Password

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 16, 2025, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) region
• Amazon S3 Tables now provide storage cost visibility for individual tables
• AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for CloudWatch Log Insights
• AWS launches public preview of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS)
• Stream multi-channel audio to Amazon Transcribe using the Web Audio API
• Amazon to launch second Secret Cloud Region in 2025
• CVE-2025-6031 - Insecure device pairing in end-of-life Amazon Cloud Cam
• What To Do When You’re Underwater on Your AWS EDP
• AWS screwed up the What's New at AWS page

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 9th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon EC2 now enables you to delete underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs
• AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Aurora I/O-Optimized recommendations
• AWS Invoice Summary API is now generally available 
• Optimize Your AWS Spend with New Cost Savings Features in AWS Trusted Advisor 
• Announcing up to 45% price reduction for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances 
• Now open – AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
• Upgrade your Amazon DynamoDB global tables to the current version

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

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• Amazon ECS increases container exit reason message to 1024 characters
• Amazon GameLift Servers SDKs are now on GitHub
• AWS Cost Explorer now offers new Cost Comparison feature
• AWS DataSync simplifies and accelerates cross-cloud data transfers
• AWS Secrets Manager announces support for cost allocation tags for secrets
• CloudTrail Lake now supports event enrichment and expanded event size
• Cost Optimization Hub now supports Savings Plans and reservations preferences
• Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available
• Enhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP server
• OpenSearch UI: Six months in review
• 5 steps for building a VMware transition strategy for public sector customers
• Cloud Repatriation is Getting Complicated

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of Tuesday, May 27th with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon Aurora reduces cross-Region Global Database Switchover time to typically under 30 seconds
• Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 4.0
• AWS Control Tower releases Enabled controls view for centralized visibility - AWS
• AWS Cost Anomaly Detection enables advanced alerting through AWS User Notifications
• AWS service changes
• DynamoDB local is now accessible on AWS CloudShell
• Join Us at FinOps X 2025: Your Guide to All Things AWS
• Introducing the AWS Product Lifecycle page and AWS service availability updates
• Join AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day to learn cutting-edge innovations building global cloud infrastructure
• How to secure your instances with multi-factor authentication
• Cost Optimization for Healthcare on AWS
• CORS configuration through Amazon CloudFront
• Introducing Strands Agents, an Open Source AI Agents SDK | AWS Open Source Blog
• Andy Jassy’s leadership lesson he practices at work and at home

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

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• Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports resource exclusion
• AWS announces new AWS Data Transfer Terminal location in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability
• Accelerate the modernization of Mainframe and VMware workloads with AWS Transform
• New Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to accelerate AI innovations
• Introducing Amazon Q Developer in Amazon OpenSearch Service
• Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights applied in real scenarios
• Cost-effective AI image generation with PixArt-Σ inference on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia
• United Airlines implement enterprise-wide resilience program with AWS
• Bringing more to the table: How Amazon S3 Tables rapidly delivered new capabilities in the first 5 months
• Understanding Amazon S3 client-side encryption options

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