AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 15th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

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• Enforcing organization-wide Amazon S3 bucket-tagging policies
• ECS Exec is now available in the AWS Management Console
• AWS Control Tower now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
• Introducing AWS CDK Refactor (Preview)
• Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE
• AWS WAF now includes free WAF Vended Logs based on request volume
• AWS recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) with Amazon Connect
• Introducing universal installers for AWS CLI v2 on macOS

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

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• Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29
• AWS IAM launches new VPC endpoint condition keys for network perimeter controls
• RDS Data API now supports IPv6
• Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
• AWS Resource Explorer is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
• Protect your Amazon Route 53 DNS zones and records
• Efficiently verify Amazon S3 data at scale with compute checksum operation
• AWS Elemental celebrates 10 years of innovation
• Choosing the right AWS live streaming solution for your use case

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 2nd, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

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• How Ancestry optimizes a 100-billion-row Iceberg table
• Mastering Amazon Q Developer with Rules
• Bob’s Used Books: Build a .NET Serverless Application on AWS – Part 2: Architecture
• How Amazon Finance built an AI assistant using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Kendra to support analysts for data discovery and business insights
• Building Your Open Source Commercial Strategy with AWS
• How to optimize Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora database costs/performance with AWS Compute Optimizer
• Gracefully handle failed AWS Lambda events from Amazon DynamoDB Streams
• Announcing the AWS Billing and Cost Management MCP server
• AWS joins the DocumentDB project to build interoperable, open source document database technology
• Count Tokens API supported for Anthropic’s Claude models now in Amazon Bedrock

Episode Summary:
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 25th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

• AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy
• SQL injection vulnerability in the AWS Aurora DSQL MCP Server | by Michael Kandelaars | Aug, 2025 | Medium
• Top AWS chip engineer reportedly defects to Arm
• Copilot Broke Your Audit Log, but Microsoft Won’t Tell You - Pistachio Blog - Cybersecurity Awareness Training
• AWS blames bug for Kiro pricing glitch that drained developer limits | InfoWorld
• Amazon Cloud Chief: Replacing Junior Staff With AI Is 'Dumbest' Idea - Business Insider
• AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea
• HR giant Workday says hackers stole personal data in recent breach | TechCrunch
• AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong
• free senior engineer level code reviews right in your IDE
• CodeRabbit
• Try Code Rabbit today
• Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation
• Vibe code with AWS databases using Vercel v0
• Enhanced throttling observability in Amazon DynamoDB
• Under the hood: how AWS Lambda SnapStart optimizes function startup latency
• AWS Security Incident Response introduces integrations with ITSM
• Amazon Cognito adds terms of use and privacy policy documents support to Managed Login
• AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides customizable Dashboards
• AWS Billing and Cost Management Console adds new recommended actions
• Amazon VPC IPAM adds in-console CloudWatch alarm management
• https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

Episode Summary:
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 18th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

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• Firefly’s 2025 IaC Best Practices Guide
• a billion dollars in savings
• highlights why I'm wrong
• Demystifying Amazon Bedrock Pricing for a Chatbot Assistant
• Improving Your Visibility to AWS Sales: A Practical Guide for Partners
• Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in Amazon Bedrock Expanded Context Window
• Amazon EC2 Single GPU P5 instances are now generally available
• Announcing Extended Support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 3.6
• CVE-2025-8904 - Issue with Amazon EMR Secret Agent component
• Amazon DynamoDB now supports more frequent throughput mode updates from provisioned to on-demand capacity
• Validate radiology reports using Amazon Nova
• Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
• AWS Resource Explorer now Supports Filtering for Multiple Values
• AWS IAM Identity Center introduces support for user background sessions with Amazon SageMaker Studio
• Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports decreasing your SSD storage capacity
• AWS Security Incident Response now supports membership coverage for individual AWS organizational units
• Understanding AWS Savings Plan Recommendations: Payer vs. Linked Account Views

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

Episode Summary:
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 4th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

Amazon Aurora MySQL database clusters now support up to 256 TiB of storage volume
Introducing v2 of Powertools for AWS Lambda (Java)
Introducing Extended Support for Amazon ElastiCache version 4 and version 5 for Redis OSS
Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available
AWS Lambda response streaming now supports 200 MB response payloads
How Zapier runs isolated tasks on AWS Lambda and upgrades functions at scale
Amazon Application Recovery Controller now supports Region switch
Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6f instances with fractional GPUs
Amazon Promotes Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, Unveils 17th Leadership Principle
Amazon CloudFront introduces new origin response timeout controls
Optimize traffic costs of Amazon MSK consumers on Amazon EKS with rack awareness
Amazon Bedrock now available in the US West (N. California) Region
New AWS whitepaper: AWS User Guide to Financial Services Regulations and Guidelines in Australia
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds AWS Lambda functions as notification targets for lifecycle hooks