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

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 17th, with Corey Quinn.

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• Amazon EC2 introduces application status checks
• AWS IAM Identity Center supports one-click multi-Region option for new organization instances
• Amazon S3 adds additional policy details to access denied error messages
• AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Jenkins and SonarQube
• Burst to Region: Overflow AWS Outposts workloads to Amazon EC2
• Designing for failure: Building resilient systems on AWS
• Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work
• Introducing the next-generation AWS VPN Client with CLI support and admin controls
• AWS Certificate Manager will discontinue email validation to prove domain validation for certificates
• How AWS IAM role manager rethinks the starting point for IAM roles
• How to authenticate customers during chat with Amazon Connect Customer
• How WeatherBug reduced storage costs by 80% using Amazon S3 Storage Lens and Kiro CLI
• Introducing the new AWS Cloud Quest: AI-powered practice, hands-on building, and a path to official AWS badges
• Two bulletins, one CVE, and Base64 bites C++

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 10th, with Corey Quinn.

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• Amazon ECR now supports image layers up to 200 GB
• AWS Lambda announces scalable network bandwidth up to 3,000 Mbps for functions outside a VPC
• AWS Security Hub Extended adds supply chain security as its 10th category
• OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1 million token context windows on Amazon Bedrock
• How to understand and estimate combined AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced costs
• Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale
• Runtime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
• Amazon Connect Service Quota Monitor
• Enforcing data residency with single-Region Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock
• Reintroducing Network Firewall Proxy for Secure Egress Connectivity
• AWS Supports Agent Plugins: An Open Standard for Portable Agent Extensions
• Introducing Dogwood: runtime verification for AI agents
• AWS partners with Anthropic and OpenAI to bring AWS Continuum into developer workflows
• Caching KMS data keys in multi-thread environments: Per-tenant encryption for event-driven systems at scale
• Access Amazon S3 backup data directly using S3 Access Points in AWS Backup
• Twelve AWS bulletins, mostly AI tooling
• From weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 3rd, with Corey Quinn. \

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• Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs
• AWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in GA
• AWS announces aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWS
• AWS Direct Connect now supports BGP route visibility on Virtual Interfaces
• AWS IAM Identity Center extends multi-Region support to Identity Center directory
• AWS announces general availability of Policy-Based Routing on AWS Transit Gateway
• IAM Policy Simulator moves to the IAM console and adds additional capabilities
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughput
• Accelerate Spark on EMR Serverless with larger workers and shuffle-optimized disks
• Installing and updating the AWS CLI with single-line commands
• Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS
• How Amazon CloudFront delivered traffic for the FIFA World Cup 2026
• Amazon identifies North Korean hacker group behind open-source supply chain attacks
• AWS KMS or AWS CloudHSM: Choose the right key management solution
• AWS Shield Advanced is embracing the AWS WAF Anti-DDoS managed rule group: What changes and how to prepare
• Secure your npm and pip package updates in Amazon Linux
• AWS security bulletins: patching the patch

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 26th, with Corey Quinn.

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• Amazon ECS now provides Action Logs for deployment and orchestration visibility
• Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus supports 1.5B active metrics and 200K rules per workspace
• Amazon SES introduces pricing plans
• AWS Network Load Balancer now supports Listener Rules for custom traffic routing
• AWS Organizations increases RCP quota to 2,000 per organization
• AWS now supports automatic credit memo application preferences
• AWS Secrets Manager now publishes secret update notifications to Amazon EventBridge
• JVM memory, CPU, and classpath best practices for Java containers on AWS
• Connection pooling strategies in Amazon Aurora DSQL
• Custom OS installation now available on AWS DeepRacer devices
• Thermodynamic sampling of disordered materials with an analog Hamiltonian Rydberg simulator
• Unlocking data residency use cases with Amazon S3 in AWS Local Zones
• AWS Security Bulletins: New Tools, Ancient Failures

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 20th, with Corey Quinn.

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• Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces intelligent tiering for storage
• Amazon Cognito now supports importing users with password hashes
• Introducing Amazon GuardDuty AI Protection for AWS AI workloads
• AWS Organizations now applies account departure security controls by default for new organizations created via AWS Organizations console
• AWS Lambda announces self-managed code storage
• Amazon S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA
• Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale
• Announcing Lambda MicroVMs: serverless compute environments with VM-level isolation and near-instant startup
• Eliminating Java cold starts with AWS Lambda Managed Instances
• Introducing open source Bulk Executor for Amazon DynamoDB
• Automating CIDR expansion: Reducing IP exhaustion downtime
• Setting up Layer 2 Networking on Amazon EC2
• Security Hub adds AI workload protection and multicloud support for Microsoft Azure
• Five CVEs and the Agentic AI Security Reckoning