AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 8th with Corey Quinn.

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• AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for container image functions
• Amazon CloudWatch now supports warm-up periods for alarms
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces data delivery to general purpose Amazon S3 buckets
• Amazon Linux 2027 is now available in public preview
• Amazon CloudFront announces API support for flat-rate pricing plans
• AAA games on a $35 stick: How Luna removes the hardware barrier with AWS
• How t54 built a trust layer with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments
• Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS
• Tokenomics at scale: How Jamf built real-time spend enforcement for Amazon Bedrock
• How PGA TOUR automated live profanity detection with AWS using Amazon Transcribe
• AWS and Microsoft Azure collaborate to expand multicloud networking
• We invited a direct competitor into Security Hub Extended. Here’s why.
• Detect stalled Amazon S3 live replication to prevent unexpected storage costs
• Six AWS security bulletins in five days

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

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• AWS Lambda functions now support full IAM resource-based policies
• AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) now supports budget controls and finding revalidation
• AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Cisco Security Platform and Netskope
• Automating filtered Cost and Usage Report exports with AWS Data Exports
• AWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support
• Happy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2
• I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI.
• AWS and DuckLabs: Building the future of analytics together
• State of Kansas modernizes mainframe file transfer using AWS Transfer Family
• Five AWS security bulletins, zero AWS-side fixes

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

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• AWS CloudShell now includes a built-in visual file editor
• AWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports third-party models on Amazon Bedrock
• AWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region
• AWS Billing and Cost Management Introduces Managed Dashboards for Instant Cloud Financial Visibility
• In the works: AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo
• Amazon Linux default SSM parameter will now track the latest kernel
• Introducing public preview runtimes on AWS Lambda, starting with Node.js 26 and Python 3.15
• AWS and Amazon WorkSpaces recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service
• Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale
• AWS Network Firewall now supports rule hit count
• Updates to your AWS Sign-In experience
• Four AWS Security Bulletins in One August Week