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AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 15th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Enforcing organization-wide Amazon S3 bucket-tagging policiesECS Exec is now available in the AWS Management ConsoleAWS Control Tower now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)Introducing AWS CDK Refactor (Preview)Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDEAWS WAF now includes free WAF Vended Logs based on request volumeAWS recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) with Amazon ConnectIntroducing universal installers for AWS CLI v2 on macOS

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 8th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29AWS IAM launches new VPC endpoint condition keys for network perimeter controlsRDS Data API now supports IPv6Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) RegionAWS Resource Explorer is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) RegionProtect your Amazon Route 53 DNS zones and records Efficiently verify Amazon S3 data at scale with compute checksum operationAWS Elemental celebrates 10 years of innovationChoosing the right AWS live streaming solution for your use case

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 2nd, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:How Ancestry optimizes a 100-billion-row Iceberg tableMastering Amazon Q Developer with Rules Bob’s Used Books: Build a .NET Serverless Application on AWS – Part 2: ArchitectureHow Amazon Finance built an AI assistant using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Kendra to support analysts for data discovery and business insights Building Your Open Source Commercial Strategy with AWSHow to optimize Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora database costs/performance with AWS Compute OptimizerGracefully handle failed AWS Lambda events from Amazon DynamoDB StreamsAnnouncing the AWS Billing and Cost Management MCP serverAWS joins the DocumentDB project to build interoperable, open source document database technologyCount Tokens API supported for Anthropic’s Claude models now in Amazon Bedrock

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 25th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool 'a wallet-wrecking tragedySQL injection vulnerability in the AWS Aurora DSQL MCP Server | by Michael Kandelaars | Aug, 2025 | MediumTop AWS chip engineer reportedly defects to ArmCopilot Broke Your Audit Log, but Microsoft Won’t Tell You - Pistachio Blog - Cybersecurity Awareness TrainingAWS blames bug for Kiro pricing glitch that drained developer limits | InfoWorldAmazon Cloud Chief: Replacing Junior Staff With AI Is 'Dumbest' Idea - Business InsiderAWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest ideaHR giant Workday says hackers stole personal data in recent breach | TechCrunchAWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong free senior engineer level code reviews right in your IDECelebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovationVibe code with AWS databases using Vercel v0Enhanced throttling observability in Amazon DynamoDBUnder the hood: how AWS Lambda SnapStart optimizes function startup latencyAWS Security Incident Response introduces integrations with ITSMAmazon Cognito adds terms of use and privacy policy documents support to Managed LoginAWS Billing and Cost Management now provides customizable DashboardsAWS Billing and Cost Management Console adds new recommended actionsAmazon VPC IPAM adds in-console CloudWatch alarm managementhttps://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 18th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:a billion dollars in savings highlights why I'm wrongDemystifying Amazon Bedrock Pricing for a Chatbot AssistantImproving Your Visibility to AWS Sales: A Practical Guide for PartnersAnthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in Amazon Bedrock Expanded Context WindowAmazon EC2 Single GPU P5 instances are now generally available Announcing Extended Support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 3.6CVE-2025-8904 - Issue with Amazon EMR Secret Agent componentAmazon DynamoDB now supports more frequent throughput mode updates from provisioned to on-demand capacity Validate radiology reports using Amazon NovaAmazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)AWS Resource Explorer now Supports Filtering for Multiple ValuesAWS IAM Identity Center introduces support for user background sessions with Amazon SageMaker Studio Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports decreasing your SSD storage capacity AWS Security Incident Response now supports membership coverage for individual AWS organizational unitsUnderstanding AWS Savings Plan Recommendations: Payer vs. Linked Account Views 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 11th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.Links: AWS Cloud Visibility Best PracticesThis Ars articleAWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizensAmazon killing a user’s accountMountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver v2: Accelerated performance and improved resource usage for Kubernetes workloadsStreamlining outbound emails with Amazon SES Mail ManagerAWS Lambda now supports GitHub Actions to simplify function deploymentAnthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 now in Amazon BedrockAmazon CloudWatch introduces organization-wide VPC flow logs enablementUnderstanding and Remediating Cold Starts: An AWS Lambda PerspectiveAmazon SQS increases maximum message payload size to 1 MiBOpenAI open weight models now available on AWS Best practices for analyzing AWS Config recording frequenciesAmazon EKS adds safety control to prevent accidental cluster deletionAWS Console Mobile App now offers access to AWS SupportAmazon EC2 now supports force terminate for EC2 instances Amazon DynamoDB adds support for Console-to-CodeUsing generative AI for building AWS networksSimplify network connectivity using Tailscale with Amazon EKS Hybrid NodesCost tracking multi-tenant model inference on Amazon Bedrock

 AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 4th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Amazon Aurora MySQL database clusters now support up to 256 TiB of storage volume Introducing v2 of Powertools for AWS Lambda (Java)Introducing Extended Support for Amazon ElastiCache version 4 and version 5 for Redis OSSAmazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available AWS Lambda response streaming now supports 200 MB response payloadsHow Zapier runs isolated tasks on AWS Lambda and upgrades functions at scaleAmazon Application Recovery Controller now supports Region switchAnnouncing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6f instances with fractional GPUsAmazon Promotes Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, Unveils 17th Leadership PrincipleAmazon CloudFront introduces new origin response timeout controlsOptimize traffic costs of Amazon MSK consumers on Amazon EKS with rack awarenessAmazon Bedrock now available in the US West (N. California) RegionNew AWS whitepaper: AWS User Guide to Financial Services Regulations and Guidelines in Australia Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds AWS Lambda functions as notification targets for lifecycle hooks

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 28th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Launching Amazon CloudWatch generative AI observability (Preview) Amazon CloudWatch adds IPv6 supportBoost cold-start recommendations with vLLM on AWS Trainium AWS Private CA now supports issuing up to 100 million certificates per CA Amazon Connect announces per-day pricing for external voice connectors Amazon RDS for Db2 adds support for group-based authorization with self-managed Active Directory Manage multi-tenant Amazon Bedrock costs using application inference profilesSimplify serverless development with console to IDE and remote debugging for AWS Lambda | AWS News Blog AWS Generative AI for Developers Professional Certificate Simplify AWS Organization Tag Policies using new wildcard statement  Security Update for Amazon Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code (Version #1.84) Cost Optimization Hub now supports account names in optimization opportunities Year One of Valkey: Open-Source Innovations and ElastiCache version 8.1 for Valkey - go listen to the audio version of this newsletter specifically for this item. AWS Security Incident Response: The customer’s journey to accelerating the incident response lifecycle AWS Service Reference Information now supports actions for last accessed services - Five facts about how the CLOUD Act actually works | AWS Security Blog Bob’s Used Books: Build a .NET Serverless Application on AWS, Part 1: Deployment and Setup Amazon EC2 now supports skipping the operating system shutdown when stopping or terminating instances New whitepaper available: AICPA SOC 2 Compliance Guide on AWS Why 2025 is the Inflection Point for AWS Cloud Migration Beyond IAM access keys: Modern authentication approaches for AWS Introducing SRA Verify – an AWS Security Reference Architecture assessment tool Supercharging Ad Creative with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Nova: How AI is Revolutionizing Content Generation for Advertising & Marketing Use-CasesBuilding resilient multi-tenant systems with Amazon SQS fair queues How Truth For Life transformed its viewer analytics while optimizing costs

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 21st, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon EBS now provides visibility into EBS volume initialization statusThe Amazon S3 console now displays an external access summary for all your bucketsAmazon S3 Tables reduce compaction costs by up to 90%AWS API MCP Server now available AWS Cost Anomaly Detection improves accuracy with model enhancementsAWS Price List API now supports four new Query Filters Introducing AWS AI LeagueAnnouncing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for AWS Price ListAmazon S3 Metadata now supports metadata for all your S3 objects AWS Free Tier update: New customers can get started and explore AWS with up to $200 in creditsIntroducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Securely deploy and operate AI agents at any scale (preview)Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors: First cloud storage with native vector support at scale (preview)Under the hood: Amazon EKS ultra scale clustersProven Practices for Succeeding with a Multicloud StrategyAccenture scales video analysis with Amazon Nova and Amazon Bedrock AgentsComing soon: Exam update and new name for cloud operations certification

 AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 14th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Direct Connect Layer 1 Explained: From Data Centers to Cloud ConnectivityOracle Database@AWS announces general availability, expands networking capabilitiesAmazon Bedrock introduces API keys for streamlined developmentAnnouncing AWS Builder CenterAmazon P6e-GB200 UltraServers now available for the highest GPU performance in EC2Quantifying the Impact of Developer Experience: Amazon’s 15.9% BreakthroughEstablishing a European trust service provider for the AWS European Sovereign CloudUse K8sGPT and Amazon Bedrock for simplified Kubernetes cluster maintenanceEvolve your Amazon DynamoDB table’s data modelIntroducing: Guidance for a media lake on AWS