Last Week In AWS Podcast

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

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• Amazon Connect external voice pricing changes
• AWS Marketplace now supports SaaS products from all deployment locations
• Amazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experience
• Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generation
• In the works – AWS South America (Chile) Region
• Monitoring network traffic in AWS Lambda functions
• Announcing the end of support for AWS DynamoDB Session State Provider
• WordFinder app: Harnessing generative AI on AWS for aphasia communication
• Accelerating government efficiency with AWS Enterprise Support
• Introducing the AWS Zero Trust Accelerator for Government

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 5th, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Automated HTTP validated public certificates with Amazon CloudFront
• AWS Systems Manager launches just-in-time node access
• MAP enhancements to accelerate AI customer adoption
• Announcing SaaS Manager for Amazon CloudFront
• Announcing second-generation AWS Outposts racks
• Amazon CloudWatch launches tiered pricing and additional destinations for AWS Lambda logs
• AWS Launch Wizard automates multi-node SAP NetWeaver deployment on SAP ASE Database
• AWS Lambda standardizes billing for INIT Phase

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

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• Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) 
• Amazon Cognito now supports refresh token rotation 
• Amazon Q Developer releases state-of-the-art agent for feature development 
• AWS Account Management now supports IAM-based account name updates 
• AWS CodeBuild adds support for specifying EC2 instance type and configurable storage size 
• AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Lightsail 
• AWS STS global endpoint now serves your requests locally in Regions enabled by default 
• AWS Transfer Family introduces Terraform module for deploying SFTP server endpoints 
• How Smartsheet reduced latency and optimized costs in their serverless architecture 
• In the works – New Availability Zone in Maryland for US East (Northern Virginia) Region 
• CVE-2025-3857 – Infinite loop condition in Amazon.IonDotnet 
• I annotated Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders 

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

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• AWS simplifies Amazon VPC Peering billing
• AWS now allows customers in Europe to pay For their usage in advance
• AWS Lambda@Edge announces advanced logging controls
• Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Dakar
• Announcing the AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens
• Announcing General Availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q
• Racing beyond DeepRacer: Debut of the AWS LLM League
• Manage budgets efficiently with budget events in AWS Deadline Cloud

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

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• Amazon Route 53 adds public authoritative DNS service to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
• Cost Optimization Hub supports DynamoDB and MemoryDB reservation recommendations
• Load Balancer Capacity Unit Reservation for Gateway Load Balancers
• Announcing new AWS Elemental MediaTailor pricing model with lower VOD ad insertion costs
• How AWS and Intel make LLMs more accessible and cost-effective with DeepSeek
• Announcing up to 85% price reductions for Amazon S3 Express One Zone
• Optimize Amazon VPC Flow Logs analysis with Cribl Stream sampling
• Exploring Data Transfer Costs for AWS Network Load Balancers

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 7th, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon EC2 now supports more bandwidth and jumbo frames to select destinations
• API Gateway launches support for dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints
• AWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 3.4
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs increases maximum log event size to 1 MB
• Amazon Neptune announces 99.99% availability Service Level Agreement
• Announcing the general availability of Amazon VPC Route Server
• Under the hood: Amazon EKS Auto Mode
• Optimizing cost savings: The advantage of Amazon Aurora over self-managed open source databases
• How AWS Sales uses generative AI to streamline account planning
• Issue with AWS SAM CLI (CVE-2025-3047, CVE-2025-3048)

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 31st, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon DynamoDB now supports percentile statistics for request latency
• Amazon EKS now enforces upgrade insights checks as part of cluster upgrades
• Amazon GameLift Servers expands instance support with next-generation EC2 instance families
• AWS CloudFormation now supports targeted resource scans in the IaC generator
• AWS adds currency selection to Payment Profiles
• AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
• AWS announces expanded service support in the AWS Console Mobile App
• AWS Network Manager and AWS Cloud WAN now support AWS PrivateLink and IPv6
• Unlocking the power of Splunk with Amazon Bedrock – Build AI assistant using agents
• From virtual machine to Kubernetes to serverless: How dacadoo saved 78% on cloud costs and automated operations
• Accelerating CI with AWS CodeBuild: Parallel test execution now available
• Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story | AWS News Blog
• Detailed geographic information for all AWS Regions and Availability Zones is now available
• Optimizing network footprint in serverless applications
• Simplifying private API integrations with Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions
• Announcing the Developer Preview of Amazon S3 Transfer Manager in Rust
• AWS SDK for Ruby: Deprecating Ruby 2.5 & 2.6 Runtime Supports and Future Compatibility
• Announcing the AWS CDK L2 Construct for Amazon Cognito Identity Pools
• AWS re:Invent 2024 recap for government agencies

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 24th, with Corey Quinn. 

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• AWS Client VPN increases authorization rules and route quotas
• Announcing the New AWS Wickr Admin Console
• AWS announces the next generation of Amazon Connect where powerful AI improves every customer interaction
• Manage SLO exclusion time windows using CloudWatch Application Signals
• Handling billions of invocations – best practices from AWS Lambda
• Visually build telephony applications with AWS Step Functions
• Corey is speaking at SREcon in Santa Clara!

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 17th, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon Bedrock now supports multi-agent collaboration
• Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250213
• Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow introduces a new visual editor to improve DNS policy editing
• Application Load Balancer announces integration with Amazon VPC IPAM
• Announcing the end of support for Node.js 14.x and 16.x in AWS CDK
• Watch the recordings from AWS Developer Day 2025
• How GoDaddy built a category generation system at scale with batch inference for Amazon Bedrock
• Formula 1® unlocks the most competitive season yet with AWS
• Secure cloud innovation starts at re:Inforce 2025

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 10th, 2025 with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon Bedrock launches Session Management APIs for GenAI applications (Preview)
• Announcing Amazon GameLift Streams
• Amazon Q Developer announces a new CLI agent within the command line
• AWS Secrets Manager increases the API Requests per Second limits
• AWS Transfer Family announces reduced login latency for SFTP servers
• IAM Access Analyzer now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
• Streamline your AWS Marketplace renewals
• Introducing an enhanced local IDE experience for AWS Step Functions
• End of support notifications and enhanced discoverability for Amazon EKS
• The end of an era: the final AWS DeepRacer League Championship at re:Invent 2024
• Securely onboarding countries to the AWS Cloud