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AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 23rd, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS IAM now enforces MFA for root users across all account typesAWS expands resource control policies (RCPs) support to two additional servicesOne Year EC2 Instance Savings Plans are now available for P5 and P5en instancesAWS Certificate Manager introduces exportable public SSL/TLS certificates to use anywhereVerify internal access to critical AWS resources with new IAM Access Analyzer capabilitiesIntroducing AWS CDK Community MeetingsRapid monitoring of Amazon S3 bucket policy changes in AWS environments1Password’s New Secrets Syncing Integration With AWS | 1Password

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 16, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) regionAmazon S3 Tables now provide storage cost visibility for individual tablesAWS Console Mobile Application adds support for CloudWatch Log InsightsAWS launches public preview of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS)Stream multi-channel audio to Amazon Transcribe using the Web Audio APIAmazon to launch second Secret Cloud Region in 2025CVE-2025-6031 - Insecure device pairing in end-of-life Amazon Cloud CamWhat To Do When You’re Underwater on Your AWS EDPAWS screwed up the What's New at AWS page

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 9th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon EC2 now enables you to delete underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIsAWS Compute Optimizer now supports Aurora I/O-Optimized recommendationsAWS 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 GPU-accelerated instances Now open – AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) RegionUpgrade your Amazon DynamoDB global tables to the current version

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 2nd, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon ECS increases container exit reason message to 1024 charactersAmazon GameLift Servers SDKs are now on GitHubAWS Cost Explorer now offers new Cost Comparison featureAWS DataSync simplifies and accelerates cross-cloud data transfersAWS Secrets Manager announces support for cost allocation tags for secretsCloudTrail Lake now supports event enrichment and expanded event sizeCost Optimization Hub now supports Savings Plans and reservations preferencesAmazon Aurora DSQL is now generally availableEnhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP serverOpenSearch UI: Six months in review5 steps for building a VMware transition strategy for public sector customersCloud Repatriation is Getting ComplicatedSponsorThe Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/Join us for Office Hours!https://www.duckbillgroup.com/officehours/

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Tuesday, May 27th with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Aurora reduces cross-Region Global Database Switchover time to typically under 30 secondsAmazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 4.0AWS Control Tower releases Enabled controls view for centralized visibility - AWSAWS Cost Anomaly Detection enables advanced alerting through AWS User NotificationsAWS service changesDynamoDB local is now accessible on AWS CloudShellJoin Us at FinOps X 2025: Your Guide to All Things AWSIntroducing the AWS Product Lifecycle page and AWS service availability updatesJoin AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day to learn cutting-edge innovations building global cloud infrastructureHow to secure your instances with multi-factor authenticationCost Optimization for Healthcare on AWSCORS configuration through Amazon CloudFrontIntroducing Strands Agents, an Open Source AI Agents SDK | AWS Open Source BlogAndy Jassy’s leadership lesson he practices at work and at home

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 19th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports resource exclusionAWS announces new AWS Data Transfer Terminal location in the San Francisco Bay AreaAccelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capabilityAccelerate the modernization of Mainframe and VMware workloads with AWS TransformNew Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to accelerate AI innovationsIntroducing Amazon Q Developer in Amazon OpenSearch ServiceAmazon CloudWatch Database Insights applied in real scenariosCost-effective AI image generation with PixArt-Σ inference on AWS Trainium and AWS InferentiaUnited Airlines implement enterprise-wide resilience program with AWSBringing more to the table: How Amazon S3 Tables rapidly delivered new capabilities in the first 5 monthsUnderstanding Amazon S3 client-side encryption optionsSponsorThe Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/Join us for Office Hours!https://www.duckbillgroup.com/officehours/

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 12th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Connect external voice pricing changesAWS Marketplace now supports SaaS products from all deployment locationsAmazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experienceAmazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generationIn the works – AWS South America (Chile) RegionMonitoring network traffic in AWS Lambda functionsAnnouncing the end of support for AWS DynamoDB Session State ProviderWordFinder app: Harnessing generative AI on AWS for aphasia communicationAccelerating government efficiency with AWS Enterprise SupportIntroducing the AWS Zero Trust Accelerator for GovernmentSponsorThe Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/Join us for Office Hours!https://www.duckbillgroup.com/officehours/

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 5th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Automated HTTP validated public certificates with Amazon CloudFrontAWS Systems Manager launches just-in-time node accessMAP enhancements to accelerate AI customer adoptionAnnouncing SaaS Manager for Amazon CloudFrontAnnouncing second-generation AWS Outposts racksAmazon CloudWatch launches tiered pricing and additional destinations for AWS Lambda logsAWS Launch Wizard automates multi-node SAP NetWeaver deployment on SAP ASE DatabaseAWS Lambda standardizes billing for INIT PhaseSponsorThe Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/Join us for Office Hours!https://www.duckbillgroup.com/officehours/

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 28th, with Corey Quinn. Links: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 storage size AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Lightsail AWS STS global endpoint now serves your requests locally in Regions enabled by default AWS Transfer Family introduces Terraform module for deploying SFTP server endpoints How Smartsheet reduced latency and optimized costs in their serverless architecture In the works – New Availability Zone in Maryland for US East (Northern Virginia) Region CVE-2025-3857 – Infinite loop condition in Amazon.IonDotnet I annotated Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 21st, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS simplifies Amazon VPC Peering billingAWS now allows customers in Europe to pay For their usage in advanceAWS Lambda@Edge announces advanced logging controlsAnnouncing new AWS Wavelength Zone in DakarAnnouncing the AWS Well-Architected Generative AI LensAnnouncing General Availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon QRacing beyond DeepRacer: Debut of the AWS LLM LeagueManage budgets efficiently with budget events in AWS Deadline Cloud