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AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 29th, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon GameLift now includes containers support (Preview)Introducing Amazon Route 53 Profiles Amazon Simple Email Service is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region Amazon Time Sync Service expands Microsecond-Accurate time to 87 additonal EC2 instance typesHow to Migrate Content from Amazon WorkDocs Build and deploy a 1 TB/s file system in under an hourAWS Response to March 2024 CSRB report chance to be actual leaderspeople turning down job offers

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 22, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS IAM Identity Center adds independent 90-days session duration for Amazon CodeWhisperer Deloitte and AWS Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate Cloud Adoption in Growth MarketsImprove cost visibility of Amazon EKS with AWS Split Cost Allocation Data Congratulations to the PartyRock generative AI hackathon winners Access Amazon RDS across AWS accounts using AWS PrivateLink, Network Load Balancer, and Amazon RDS ProxyProgrammatic approach to optimize the cost of Amazon RDS snapshots Reduce cost and improve performance by migrating to Amazon DocumentDB 5.0A secure approach to generative AI with AWS AWS celebrates big technology wins at NAB 2024 New AWS survey reveals the link between AI fluency and the next education revolutionCVE-2024-28056Creating shortcut links to AWS Management Console destinations - AWS IAM Identity Center 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of 04/15/24, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Route 53 adds support for 18 additional Top-Level Domains Announcing AWS Transfer Family workshop for building secure file transfer solutions using SFTPNew AWS monetization solution demonstrations at NAB Show 2024 Optimizing AWS Backup costs

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 8, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring is now generally availableAmazon SageMaker Canvas announces new pricing for training tabular models Introducing AWS CodeConnections, formerly known as AWS CodeStar Connections -Amazon CloudWatch now supports cross-account anomaly detection Amazon EKS extended support for Kubernetes versions now generallyAnnouncing AWS Deadline Cloud AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for CloudWatch custom dashboardsAWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 3.3 Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6 instances Announcing per-second billing for EC2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-based instances Why AWS Supports ValkeyAWS Activate credits now accepted for third-party models on Amazon Bedrock DoorDash saves millions annually using Amazon S3 Storage Lens 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 1, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:AI recommendations for descriptions in Amazon DataZone now generally availableAmazon DynamoDB Import from S3 now supports up to 50,000 Amazon S3 objects in a single bulk importAmazon Time Sync Service now supports microsecond-accurate time in US East (N. Virginia) Region AWS Billing and Cost Management Data Exports now supports AWS CloudFormation AWS Compute Optimizer introduces memory customizability for EC2 rightsizing recommendationsAWS Cost Allocation Tags now support retroactive applicationEstimating the charges for Amazon RDS Extended SupportAmazon completes $4B Anthropic investment to advance generative AI 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 25, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS PrivateLinkAmazon WorkMail now supports Audit LoggingAWS announces a 7-day window to return Savings Plans AWS CodeBuild now supports custom images for AWS Lambda computeEC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts now provide visibility into supported macOS versionsInvoke AWS Lambda functions from cross-account Amazon Kinesis Data StreamsTraeger Grills’s Customer Experience team drives customer satisfaction significantly using Amazon QuickSight Bulk update Amazon DynamoDB tables with AWS Step Functions Simplify cross-account access control with Amazon DynamoDB using resource-based policies How to securely provide access to centralized AWS CloudTrail Lake logs across accounts in your organizationHow to optimize DNS for dual-stack networksIntroducing mTLS for Application Load Balancer 6 foundational capabilities you need for generative AIIt’s time to evolve IT procurementAWS and NVIDIA extend their collaboration to advance generative AI

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 18, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon EFS now supports up to 20 GiB/s of throughputAmazon SES now offers support for headers when sending emailAWS announces Aurora MySQL integration with Amazon Bedrock for Generative AI AWS Backup now supports restore testing for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive Experience up to 40% faster stack creation with AWS CloudFormationAWS Cost Categories launches a revamped user interface Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model is now available on Amazon BedrockNew European study: AI skills will significantly boost productivity and salaries

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 11, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:Start your Engines! Announcing the 2024 AWS DeepRacer LeagueAccelerate no-code ML with a refreshed homepage in Amazon SageMaker CanvasAWS re:Post introduces re:Post Live How Accenture Accelerates Building a Secure Cloud Foundation Natively on AWS Accenture scored itself an S3 bucket negligence award Revolutionize Your Business with AWS Generative AI Competency PartnersAmazon RDS now supports io2 Block Express volumes for mission-critical database workloadsFree data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS Unlocking Innovation: AWS and Anthropic push the boundaries of generative AI togetherThe benefits of running controlled substance databases with AWSIntroducing the AWS WAF traffic overview dashboard 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 4, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon CloudFront announces availability of Embedded Points of Presence Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports IPv6Amazon Data Firehose adds message extraction feature for decompressed CloudWatch Logs Amazon EC2 m7i.metal-24xl instance is now generally available for VMware Cloud on AWSAmazon EKS announces support for Amazon Linux 2023AWS announces Amazon Neptune I/O-Optimized AWS Batch now offers multi-container jobs New AWS Region in Mexico is in the works Engage online sports fans with live event commentary using generative AI on Amazon BedrockDelivering Business Value with Cloud Platform Teams The Power of Cloud Storage for Small and Medium Businesses: Unlocking Efficiency and Security

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 26, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Incident Detection and Response now offers five minute response time for critical incidentsMultiple solution tagging on ACE opportunities Introducing the .NET 8 runtime for AWS Lambda Best practices for managing Terraform State files in AWS CI/CD Pipeline Understand Amazon S3 data transfer costs by classifying requests with Amazon Athena