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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 19th, with Corey Quinn.

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• Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports resource exclusion
• AWS announces new AWS Data Transfer Terminal location in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability
• Accelerate the modernization of Mainframe and VMware workloads with AWS Transform
• New Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to accelerate AI innovations
• Introducing Amazon Q Developer in Amazon OpenSearch Service
• Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights applied in real scenarios
• Cost-effective AI image generation with PixArt-Σ inference on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia
• United Airlines implement enterprise-wide resilience program with AWS
• Bringing more to the table: How Amazon S3 Tables rapidly delivered new capabilities in the first 5 months
• Understanding Amazon S3 client-side encryption options

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 12th, with Corey Quinn.

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• Amazon Connect external voice pricing changes
• AWS Marketplace now supports SaaS products from all deployment locations
• Amazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experience
• Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generation
• In the works – AWS South America (Chile) Region
• Monitoring network traffic in AWS Lambda functions
• Announcing the end of support for AWS DynamoDB Session State Provider
• WordFinder app: Harnessing generative AI on AWS for aphasia communication
• Accelerating government efficiency with AWS Enterprise Support
• Introducing the AWS Zero Trust Accelerator for Government

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 5th, with Corey Quinn.

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• Automated HTTP validated public certificates with Amazon CloudFront
• AWS Systems Manager launches just-in-time node access
• MAP enhancements to accelerate AI customer adoption
• Announcing SaaS Manager for Amazon CloudFront
• Announcing second-generation AWS Outposts racks
• Amazon CloudWatch launches tiered pricing and additional destinations for AWS Lambda logs
• AWS Launch Wizard automates multi-node SAP NetWeaver deployment on SAP ASE Database
• AWS Lambda standardizes billing for INIT Phase

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 28th, with Corey Quinn.

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• Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
• Amazon Cognito now supports refresh token rotation
• Amazon Q Developer releases state-of-the-art agent for feature development
• AWS Account Management now supports IAM-based account name updates
• AWS CodeBuild adds support for specifying EC2 instance type and configurable storage size
• AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Lightsail
• AWS STS global endpoint now serves your requests locally in Regions enabled by default
• AWS Transfer Family introduces Terraform module for deploying SFTP server endpoints
• How Smartsheet reduced latency and optimized costs in their serverless architecture
• In the works – New Availability Zone in Maryland for US East (Northern Virginia) Region
• CVE-2025-3857 – Infinite loop condition in Amazon.IonDotnet
• I annotated Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders

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

Links:

• AWS simplifies Amazon VPC Peering billing
• AWS now allows customers in Europe to pay For their usage in advance
• AWS Lambda@Edge announces advanced logging controls
• Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Dakar
• Announcing the AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens
• Announcing General Availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q
• Racing beyond DeepRacer: Debut of the AWS LLM League
• Manage budgets efficiently with budget events in AWS Deadline Cloud