Episode Summary:
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