Last Week In AWS Podcast

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 19th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon Quick now supports brand templates for on-brand presentations and documents Amazon S3 is now available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Dashboards now support Amazon Bedrock product attributes AWS now lets customers sign up for AWS and pay invoices using ACH direct debit Annou...

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 plan AWS Capabilities by Region now offers availability notifications for individual features and advanced filters All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS Introducing EC2 AMI Tag Sharing: Share EC2 tags across AWS accounts Pow...

AWS Morning Brief for the week ofOctober 5th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports public endpoints AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides billing context for your account through a new API Uncover blind spots in AWS data plane operations with CloudTrail Event Coverage AWS Service Availability Updates Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now lets you est...

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) Region AWS PrivateLink announces Tunnel Endpoints to access network segments Wrong, not broken Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads Introducing enhanced custom event buses in Amaz...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 21st, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS Direct Connect announces flat-rate pricing for dedicated connections AWS improves regional resiliency for root user sign-in AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces Cluster Mode AWS reimagines the getting started experience New low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances are generally available Reduce time-to-hire for quality...

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 destinations Amazon S3 Object Lock now supports variable retention with event holds Lambda's slow-motion reinvention of EC2 Amazon EC2 now supports specifying compatible instance types on AMIs Announcing second-generation single-rack AWS Outposts...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 8th with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for container image functions Amazon CloudWatch now supports warm-up periods for alarms Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces data delivery to general purpose Amazon S3 buckets Amazon Linux 2027 is now available in public preview Amazon CloudFront announces API support for flat-rate pricing...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 31st, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS Lambda functions now support full IAM resource-based policies AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) now supports budget controls and finding revalidation AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Cisco Security Platform and Netskope Automating filtered Cost and Usage Report exports with AWS Da...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 24th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS CloudShell now includes a built-in visual file editor AWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports third-party models on Amazon Bedrock AWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region AWS Billing and Cost Management Introduces Managed Dashboards for Instant Cloud Financial Visibility In the works: AWS Builder L...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 17th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon EC2 introduces application status checks AWS IAM Identity Center supports one-click multi-Region option for new organization instances Amazon S3 adds additional policy details to access denied error messages AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Jenkins and SonarQube Burst to Region: Overflow AW...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 10th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon ECR now supports image layers up to 200 GB AWS Lambda announces scalable network bandwidth up to 3,000 Mbps for functions outside a VPC AWS Security Hub Extended adds supply chain security as its 10th category OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1 million token context windows on Amazon Bedrock How to under...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 3rd, with Corey Quinn. \ Links: Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs AWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in GA AWS announces aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWS AWS Direct Connect now supports BGP route visibility on Virtual Interfaces AWS IAM Identity C...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 26th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon ECS now provides Action Logs for deployment and orchestration visibility Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus supports 1.5B active metrics and 200K rules per workspace Amazon SES introduces pricing plans AWS Network Load Balancer now supports Listener Rules for custom traffic routing AWS Organizations increases RCP quot...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 20th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces intelligent tiering for storage Amazon Cognito now supports importing users with password hashes Introducing Amazon GuardDuty AI Protection for AWS AI workloads AWS Organizations now applies account departure security controls by default for new organizations created via AWS Organizations consol...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 13th with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS Security Hub extends unified security management to Microsoft Azure Amazon EKS Auto Mode reduces GPU management fees by up to 60% Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai AWS Builder Center Now Offers Free Sandbox Environments AWS Security Hub now offers Network Scanning to identify publicly reachable resource...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July, 6th with Corey Quinn.  Links: Announcing general availability of Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents Amazon CloudWatch supports creating alarms from log queries ECS Service Connect now supports Zone-Aware routing How InterWiz reduced AI costs by 90% with Amazon Bedrock Accelerate your infrastructure deployments by up to 4x with AWS CloudFormation Express mode Au...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 29th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon CloudWatch launches OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS Amazon GuardDuty AI-powered investigations accelerate threat response (Preview) Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver now supports sharing DNS Views between AWS Accounts Automate AWS Invoice Retrieval with New Programmatic APIs Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycl...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 22nd, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS Marketplace announces AI-assisted product listing Amazon CloudWatch introduces Log Analytics for unified log analysis Amazon EKS now supports customer-routed control plane egress Free Network Bandwidth Amazon GameLift Servers is Here! AWS announces AWS Blocks, an open-source framework for composing application backends on A...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 15th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS announces AWS Workload Credentials Provider Announcing the public preview of AWS FinOps Agent Introducing AI-Powered Cost Investigations For Cost Anomalies Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 23 new query commands and functions Introducing Target Coverage in Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer Introducing the AWS Credits Detai...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 8th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps tier Oracle Database@AWS is now available in twenty AWS Regions Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.36 Amazon SES now supports tenant-level suppression lists AWS Compute Optimizer now suppo...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 1st, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Monitor AWS Budgets directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with new Budgets widget Introducing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for building your agentic AI applications Optimize costs in Amazon Aurora How AWS DevOps Agent uses multi-agent reasoning to find root causes Claude Opus 4.8 is now availa...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 25th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon Bedrock expands support for request-level usage attribution Amazon ECS introduces pause and continue controls for service deployments AWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in preview AWS Organizations now supports higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs) Amazon...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 18th , with Corey Quinn.  Links: Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances Amazon EventBridge Scheduler adds 619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed Instances Amazon Redshift launches RG instances powered by AWS Graviton Amazon Route 53 Domains adds support for 34 new Top Level Domains including .app, .dev, and .health. ENA...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 11th , with Corey Quinn.  Links: Announcing Agent Toolkit for AWS — help AI coding agents build effectively on AWS Amazon CloudFront Announces WebSocket Support for VPC Origins Amazon EventBridge supports data plane logging to AWS CloudTrail AWS IAM now provides higher maximum quotas for roles, role trust policies, instance profiles, managed policies, and iden...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 4th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS Management Console now supports settings to control service and Region visibility - AWS Amazon CloudWatch adds visual agent configuration to the EC2 console AWS Announces Amazon Connect Decisions Amazon Connect Talent for AI-powered hiring (now available in Preview) Introducing Amazon EC2 R8in and R8ib instances Amazon OpenSe...