Lambda Slowly Becomes EC2, One Feature at a Time

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 9th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Quick Introduces Quick EssentialsAmazon RDS now supports per snapshot billingAWS WAF AI traffic monetization now supports fiat payouts through StripeNew features for Amazon EC2 Capacity ManagerGain per-developer visibility into Kiro Enterprise credit usageIntroducing queue consumption mode for Apache Kafka in AWS LambdaAWS contributes a large-transaction binary log optimization to MySQLIntroducing bulk put items for Amazon DynamoDB: Load data from Amazon S3 into existing tables at scaleIntroducing tunnel endpoints for private access to network segmentsInside a successful AWS European Sovereign Cloud exercise to demonstrate independent operationIntroducing AWS account access manager: IAM role flexibility with centralized workforce accessFourteen AWS CVEs in one drop, sorted by dread

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 2nd with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN now support 1:1 NATAmazon EMR on EKS reduces EMR charge by 30 percentAnnouncing the AWS Marketplace and Amazon Business unified storefrontUnderstanding AWS Savings Plans Recommendations: Management vs. Member Account ViewsThe New York Times cut Oracle migration time from 18 to 5 monthsPreparing for large-scale live streaming events on AWS — Part 1Introducing Route 53 Resolved IP Validation for AWS Network FirewallNine AWS Bulletins, Mostly From the Agent Pile

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 26th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support On-Demand Capacity ReservationAmazon CloudWatch Omni is now available in additional AWS RegionsAWS announces TorchNeuron: Native PyTorch Support for AWS Trainium (Public Beta)AWS announces AWS Interconnect - last mile preview with MegaportAmazon DynamoDB global tables now support disassociating replicasYour last hardware decision shouldn’t decide what you build next.AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally availableIntroducing Amazon ECS Gateway: A fully-managed ingress solution for ECS servicesYour CFO wants SAP AI results next quarter – here’s where to startUsing AWS WAF to apply mitigations for PHP2Shell RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619)Updating encryption on existing Amazon S3 objects with S3 Batch OperationsTen AWS Security Bulletins, One Bad Afternoon

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 19th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Quick now supports brand templates for on-brand presentations and documentsAmazon S3 is now available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by VercelAWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Dashboards now support Amazon Bedrock product attributesAWS now lets customers sign up for AWS and pay invoices using ACH direct debitAnnouncing Blockchain Snapshots on AWS for node bootstrappingAmazon Route 53 now supports registrations, transfers, and renewals for Premium DomainsAmazon Time Sync Service adds support for microsecond-accurate time on 135 additional EC2 instance types in all commercial regionsAmazon DynamoDB Streams now supports timestamp-based stream processingAnnouncing AWS Lambda Web FunctionsBuild AWS Marketplace SaaS metering with the metering agent skillReducing cross-AZ latency with the AWS Lambda metadata endpointSix AWS security bulletins, one recurring mistake

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 11th, with Corey Quinn. Links:GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring is now included in the AWS Security Hub Threat Analytics planAWS Capabilities by Region now offers availability notifications for individual features and advanced filtersAll the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWSIntroducing EC2 AMI Tag Sharing: Share EC2 tags across AWS accountsPowering predictable costs with AWS Direct Connect flat-rate pricingIntroducing Strands Box: AI agent sandboxes powered by DogwoodEight AWS Security Bulletins, One Bad Week for Defaults

AWS Morning Brief for the week ofOctober 5th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports public endpointsAWS Billing and Cost Management now provides billing context for your account through a new APIUncover blind spots in AWS data plane operations with CloudTrail Event CoverageAWS Service Availability UpdatesAmazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now lets you estimate bytes scanned before running a queryAWS Budgets now supports email verification for notification subscribersRunning multi-day AZ evacuation drills with ARC Zonal ShiftAmazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lakeAnnouncing AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered intelligence to optimize your cloud environment (preview)Introducing filtered export from Amazon DynamoDB to Amazon S3What’s next for Research and Engineering Studio on AWSRouting UDP to on-premises Network Load Balancer targetsIntroducing the Dogwood Local Engine: temporal governance for agent actionsAWS European Sovereign Cloud: Demonstrating an independent operationAWS European Sovereign Cloud: Demonstrating an independent operation

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 28th, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Network Security Manager is now generally available in US East (N. Virginia) RegionAWS PrivateLink announces Tunnel Endpoints to access network segmentsWrong, not brokenIntroducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloadsIntroducing enhanced custom event buses in Amazon EventBridge for enterprise-scale event-driven applicationsAdding custom domains to AWS Lambda MicroVMs with Application Load BalancerRunning self-hosted AI agent sandboxes with AWS Lambda MicroVMsHow BMW Group detects cost anomalies across 14,000 cloud accountsFour AWS CVEs in a row, escalating nicely

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 21st, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Direct Connect announces flat-rate pricing for dedicated connectionsAWS improves regional resiliency for root user sign-inAWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces Cluster ModeAWS reimagines the getting started experienceNew low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances are generally availableReduce time-to-hire for quality candidates with AI-powered Amazon Connect TalentAWS STS simplifies session token size limits and adds session token size monitoringSeven AWS CVEs and the client-side patching tax

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 14th with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon API Gateway now supports 1 MB execution logs with configurable delivery destinationsAmazon S3 Object Lock now supports variable retention with event holdsLambda's slow-motion reinvention of EC2Amazon EC2 now supports specifying compatible instance types on AMIsAnnouncing second-generation single-rack AWS OutpostsHow AWS thinks about FinOps Automation and TrustIntroducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones across AWS accountsHow to migrate from Amazon CloudSearch to Amazon OpenSearch ServerlessIntroducing Pizza Bot, an open source inbox for AI agents that work in the backgroundThree consecutive CVEs, all AWS-authored code

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 8th with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for container image functionsAmazon CloudWatch now supports warm-up periods for alarmsAmazon Kinesis Data Streams announces data delivery to general purpose Amazon S3 bucketsAmazon Linux 2027 is now available in public previewAmazon CloudFront announces API support for flat-rate pricing plansAAA games on a $35 stick: How Luna removes the hardware barrier with AWSHow t54 built a trust layer with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore paymentsIntroducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWSTokenomics at scale: How Jamf built real-time spend enforcement for Amazon BedrockHow PGA TOUR automated live profanity detection with AWS using Amazon TranscribeAWS and Microsoft Azure collaborate to expand multicloud networkingWe invited a direct competitor into Security Hub Extended. Here’s why.Detect stalled Amazon S3 live replication to prevent unexpected storage costsSix AWS security bulletins in five days