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

Links:

• 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