AWS Morning Brief
The latest in AWS news, sprinkled with snark. Posts about AWS come out over sixty times a day. We filter through it all to find the hidden gems, the community contributions--the stuff worth hearing about! Then we summarize it with snark and share it with you--minus the nonsense.
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- Finch expands support to Ubuntu, streamlining container development across platforms
- Amazon CloudFront announces support for HTTPS DNS records
- Amazon Q Business launches the ability to customize responses
- Build the highest resilience apps with multi-Region strong consistency in Amazon DynamoDB global tables
- Leveling up Amazon RDS with AWS Graviton4: Benchmarks
- Build AWS architecture diagrams using Amazon Q CLI and MCP
- ...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, June 30th, with Corey Quinn.
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- What is AWS Security Hub?
- Amazon data center complex
- Code reviews in you IDE
- AWS Local Zones Features - AWS
- Last Week in AWS Slack community
- Amazon VPC raises default Route Table capacity
- Announcing Intelligent Search for re:Post and re:Post Private
- How to Set Up Automated Alerts for Newly Purchased AWS Savings Plans
- Introducing AWS Lambda native...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 23rd, 2025, with Corey Quinn.
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- AWS IAM now enforces MFA for root users across all account types
- AWS expands resource control policies (RCPs) support to two additional services
- One Year EC2 Instance Savings Plans are now available for P5 and P5en instances
- AWS Certificate Manager introduces exportable public SSL/TLS certificates to use anywhere
- Verify internal access to critic...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 16, 2025, with Corey Quinn.
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- Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) region
- Amazon S3 Tables now provide storage cost visibility for individual tables
- AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for CloudWatch Log Insights
- AWS launches public preview of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS)
- Stream multi-channel audio to Amazon Transcribe using the We...
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 ...
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 enri...
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 lo...
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 ...
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 La...
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 log...
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 s...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 21st, with Corey Quinn.
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- 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 o...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 14th, with Corey Quinn.
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- Amazon Route 53 adds public authoritative DNS service to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
- Cost Optimization Hub supports DynamoDB and MemoryDB reservation recommendations
- Load Balancer Capacity Unit Reservation for Gateway Load Balancers
- Announcing new AWS Elemental MediaTailor pricing model with lower VOD ad insertion costs
- How AWS and Intel make LLMs more ...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 7th, with Corey Quinn.
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- Amazon EC2 now supports more bandwidth and jumbo frames to select destinations
- API Gateway launches support for dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints
- AWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 3.4
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs increases maximum log event size to 1 MB
- Amazon Neptune announces 99.99% availability Service Level Agreement
- Announcing the general availability...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 31st, with Corey Quinn.
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- Amazon DynamoDB now supports percentile statistics for request latency
- Amazon EKS now enforces upgrade insights checks as part of cluster upgrades
- Amazon GameLift Servers expands instance support with next-generation EC2 instance families
- AWS CloudFormation now supports targeted resource scans in the IaC generator
- AWS adds currency selection to Payme...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 24th, with Corey Quinn.
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- AWS Client VPN increases authorization rules and route quotas
- Announcing the New AWS Wickr Admin Console
- AWS announces the next generation of Amazon Connect where powerful AI improves every customer interaction
- Manage SLO exclusion time windows using CloudWatch Application Signals
- Handling billions of invocations – best practices from AWS Lambda
- Visua...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 17th, with Corey Quinn.
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- Amazon Bedrock now supports multi-agent collaboration
- Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250213
- Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow introduces a new visual editor to improve DNS policy editing
- Application Load Balancer announces integration with Amazon VPC IPAM
- Announcing the end of support for Node.js 14.x and 16.x in AWS CD...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 10th, 2025 with Corey Quinn.
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- Amazon Bedrock launches Session Management APIs for GenAI applications (Preview)
- Announcing Amazon GameLift Streams
- Amazon Q Developer announces a new CLI agent within the command line
- AWS Secrets Manager increases the API Requests per Second limits
- AWS Transfer Family announces reduced login latency for SFTP servers
- IAM Access Analyzer now suppo...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 3, with Corey Quinn.
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- Amazon Connect reduces telephony pricing in Vietnam
- Amazon EC2 announces Time-based Copy for AMIs
- Amazon Location Service now supports AWS PrivateLink
- Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now available in Amazon Bedrock
- AWS Batch now supports resource aware scheduling
- AWS Chatbot is now named Amazon Q Developer
- AWS CodePipeline introduces new console experien...
AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 24, with Corey Quinn.
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- Amazon ECS increases the CPU limit for ECS tasks to 192 vCPUs
- Amazon Q Developer now supports upgrade to Java 21
- AWS announces Backup Payment Methods for invoices
- AWS CodePipeline adds native Amazon EKS deployment support
- AWS Price List API supports AWS PrivateLink
- AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review
- Cost optimize your Minecraft Java EC2 Server
- Imp...
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