AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 9th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Amazon EC2 now enables you to delete underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs
• AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Aurora I/O-Optimized recommendations
• AWS Invoice Summary API is now generally available
• Optimize Your AWS Spend with New Cost Savings Features in AWS Trusted Advisor
• Announcing up to 45% price reduction for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances
• Now open – AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
• Upgrade your Amazon DynamoDB global tables to the current version

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 2nd, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Amazon ECS increases container exit reason message to 1024 characters
• Amazon GameLift Servers SDKs are now on GitHub
• AWS Cost Explorer now offers new Cost Comparison feature
• AWS DataSync simplifies and accelerates cross-cloud data transfers
• AWS Secrets Manager announces support for cost allocation tags for secrets
• CloudTrail Lake now supports event enrichment and expanded event size
• Cost Optimization Hub now supports Savings Plans and reservations preferences
• Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available
• Enhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP server
• OpenSearch UI: Six months in review
• 5 steps for building a VMware transition strategy for public sector customers
• Cloud Repatriation is Getting Complicated

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of Tuesday, May 27th with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Amazon Aurora reduces cross-Region Global Database Switchover time to typically under 30 seconds
• Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 4.0
• AWS Control Tower releases Enabled controls view for centralized visibility - AWS
• AWS Cost Anomaly Detection enables advanced alerting through AWS User Notifications
• AWS service changes
• DynamoDB local is now accessible on AWS CloudShell
• Join Us at FinOps X 2025: Your Guide to All Things AWS
• Introducing the AWS Product Lifecycle page and AWS service availability updates
• Join AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day to learn cutting-edge innovations building global cloud infrastructure
• How to secure your instances with multi-factor authentication
• Cost Optimization for Healthcare on AWS
• CORS configuration through Amazon CloudFront
• Introducing Strands Agents, an Open Source AI Agents SDK | AWS Open Source Blog
• Andy Jassy’s leadership lesson he practices at work and at home