Last Week In AWS Podcast

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 3, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon Connect reduces telephony pricing in Vietnam
• Amazon EC2 announces Time-based Copy for AMIs
• Amazon Location Service now supports AWS PrivateLink
• Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now available in Amazon Bedrock
• AWS Batch now supports resource aware scheduling
• AWS Chatbot is now named Amazon Q Developer
• AWS CodePipeline introduces new console experience for viewing pipeline releases
• You can now use your China UnionPay credit card to create an AWS account
• Accelerate Security Incident Response and Recovery with AWS Security Incident Response Partners
• Amazon Web Services named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools
• Migrate very large databases to Amazon Aurora MySQL using MyDumper and MyLoader
• Announcing CDK Garbage Collection
• Generate Code Documentation Using Amazon Q Developer
• ByteDance processes billions of daily videos using their multimodal video understanding models on AWS Inferentia2
• Unlock deeper insights and faster investigations with AWS CloudTrail Lake

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

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• Amazon ECS increases the CPU limit for ECS tasks to 192 vCPUs
• Amazon Q Developer now supports upgrade to Java 21
• AWS announces Backup Payment Methods for invoices
• AWS CodePipeline adds native Amazon EKS deployment support
• AWS Price List API supports AWS PrivateLink
• AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review
• Cost optimize your Minecraft Java EC2 Server
• Improving Security in Amazon WorkMail with MFA
• Update on Support for Amazon Chime
• Best practices to respond to security risks across your AWS Organizations
• Reduce IT costs by implementing automatic shutdown for Amazon EC2 instances
• How to restrict Amazon S3 bucket access to a specific IAM role
• Introducing the AWS Trust Center
• Is AWS Delivering on Its 3-Layer Approach to AI?

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

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• Amazon DynamoDB now supports auto-approval of quota adjustments
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now adds full snapshot size information in Console and API
• Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250103
• Amazon Redshift Serverless announces reduction in IP Address Requirements to 3 per Subnet
• AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Adobe After Effects in Service-Managed Fleets
• AWS Network Load Balancer now supports removing availability zones
• AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints now generally available
• Harness Amazon Bedrock Agents to Manage SAP Instances
• Timestamp writes for write hedging in Amazon DynamoDB
• Updating AWS SDK defaults – AWS STS service endpoint and Retry Strategy
• Learning AWS best practices from Amazon Q in the Console
• Automating Cost Optimization Governance with AWS Config
• Amazon Q Developer in chat applications rename - Summary of changes - AWS Chatbot

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 10, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon EBS now supports additional resource-level permissions for creating EBS volumes from snapshots
• Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector adds support for cross-account ingestion
• Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in 1 additional region
• Amazon Q Developer now troubleshoots AWS Console errors in all AWS Commercial regions
• Amazon Q Developer introduces a new, simplified setup experience for Pro tier subscriptions
• AWS IAM Identity Center now offers improved error messages and AWS CloudTrail logging for provisioning issues
• AWS Step Functions now supports 100,000 state machines and activities per AWS account
• Cost Optimization Hub supports more EC2 Auto Scaling group recommendations
• Announcing the general availability of AWS Database Migration Service Serverless support for files with an S3 source endpoint
• AI-Powered Football Match Analysis: SAP Sports One on AWS
• Introducing AWS CloudFormation Stack Refactoring
• AWS Tightens the Reins: New AWS SaaS Marketplace Rules Will Impact Your Commitments

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 3, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region
• Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.32
• Amazon S3 Metadata is now generally available
• Amazon Timestream for InfluxDb now supports Storage Scaling
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python 3.13 on Amazon Linux 2023
• AWS Health now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
• Announcing AWS Managed Notifications in the AWS Console Mobile App
• Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Casablanca
• AWS now supports Zone Groups for Availability Zones
• Announcing the AWS CDK Glue L2 Construct
• Deploy DeepSeek-R1 Distilled Llama models in Amazon Bedrock
• Announcing upcoming changes to the AWS Security Token Service global endpoint
• Design patterns for multi-tenant access control on Amazon S3
• Amazon Nimble Studio Closed to New Customers

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 27, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon Bedrock Flows announces preview of multi-turn conversation support
• Amazon CloudWatch allows alarming on data up to 7 days old
• Amazon S3 Tables are now available in five additional AWS Regions
• AWS Client VPN announces support for concurrent VPN connections
• AWS CodeBuild now supports test splitting and parallelism
• AWS Marketplace introduces 8 decimal place precision for usage pricing
• Announcing AWS User Notifications GA on AWS CloudFormation
• Enhance the resilience of critical workloads by architecting with multiple AWS Regions
• Introducing cross-account targets for Amazon EventBridge Event Buses
• Diving deep into the new Amazon Aurora Global Database writer endpoint
• AWS and NANOG join forces: Unlocking IPv6 potential with the IPv6 Clinic at NANOG 93
• Issue with AWS Sign-in IAM User Login Flow – Possible Username Enumeration (CVE-2025-0693)

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

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• AWS CodePipeline introduces new debugging experience in AWS Management Console
• The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts
• EC2 Image Builder simplifies converting Windows ISO files to AMIs
• Now open — AWS Mexico (Central) Region
• AWS CDK is splitting Construct Library and CLI
• Amazon Bedrock launches with Claude 3.5 Sonnet in the AWS Top Secret cloud
• Preventing unintended encryption of Amazon S3 objects
• Secure root user access for member accounts in AWS Organizations | AWS Security Blog
• Cost-optimized log aggregation and archival in Amazon S3 using s3tar
• Issue with Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream 2.0, and Amazon DCV (CVE-2025-0500 and CVE-2025-0501)

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 13, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon DynamoDB now supports configurable point-in-time-recovery periods
• AWS Compute Optimizer now expands idle and rightsizing recommendations for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups
• Announcing the new AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region | AWS News Blog
• Shaping the future of CDK together
• The benefits of an email-based AI virtual assistant on AWS
• Securing a city-sized event: How Amazon integrates physical and logical security at re:Invent

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 23, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces client for macOS
• Amazon EC2 instances support bandwidth configurations for VPC and EBS
• Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) connectivity
• Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client now available to purchase in India
• AWS Backup launches support for search and item-level recovery
• AWS Mainframe Modernization now supports connectivity over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
• AWS Marketplace now supports self-service promotional media on seller product detail pages
• AWS re:Post now supports Spanish and Portuguese
• AWS Resource Explorer supports 59 new resource types
• AWS offers a self-service feature to update business names on AWS Invoices
• Announcing CloudFormation support for AWS Parallel Computing Service
• Announcing Node Health Monitoring and Auto-Repair for Amazon EKS - AWS
• And that’s a wrap!
• Best practices for creating a VPC for Amazon RDS for Db2
• How the Amazon TimeHub team handled disruption in AWS DMS CDC task caused by Oracle RESETLOGS: Part 3
• How to detect and monitor Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) access with AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch
• Enforce resource configuration to control access to new features with AWS
• Maximizing your cloud journey: Engaging an AWS Solutions Architect

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 16th, 2024, with Corey Quinn. 

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• Amazon Bedrock Guardrails reduces pricing by up to 85%
• Amazon CloudWatch now provides centralized visibility into telemetry configurations
• Amazon EC2 F2 instances, featuring up to 8 FPGAs, are generally available
• Amazon SES now offers Global Endpoints for multi-region sending resilience
• AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now includes Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail
• Accelerate your AWS Graviton adoption with the AWS Graviton Savings Dashboard
• Capture data changes while restoring an Amazon DynamoDB table
• Understand the benefits of physical replication in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Blue/Green Deployments
• How AWS sales uses Amazon Q Business for customer engagement
• AWS Network Firewall Geographic IP Filtering launch
• Issue with DynamoDB local - CVE-2022-1471