Last Week In AWS Podcast

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...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 27th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports configuration of processors via AI Introducing the Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway for hybrid Kubernetes networking Amazon EKS enhances cluster governance with new IAM condition keys Attributed Revenue Dashboard Now Available in AWS Partner Central AWS Lambda functions can now mount Ama...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 20th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon CloudWatch now supports cross-region telemetry auditing and enablement rules Introducing Amazon EC2 C8in and C8ib instances Amazon Quick now supports multi-account sign-in within the same browser Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core are now available in two additional AWS Regions AWS announces general a...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April, 13th with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS Certificate Manager now supports native certificate search Amazon S3 Lifecycle pauses actions on objects that are unable to replicate Amazon Bedrock now offers Claude Mythos Preview (Gated Research Preview) Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Zstandard (zstd) codec for index compression AWS Secrets Manager console no...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 6th, with Corey Quinn. Links :  Announcing Amazon RDS for Oracle on AWS Outposts AWS Direct Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation AWS Service Availability Updates Amazon S3 Vectors expands to 17 additional AWS Regions Amazon CloudFront now supports SHA-256 for signed URLs and signed cookies Amazon CloudWatch now supports OpenTelemetry metrics in public pre...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 30th, with Corey Quinn. Links : Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now available with the AWS Free Tier Amazon EKS announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement and new 8XL scaling tier for Provisioned Control Plane clusters AWS Lambda increases the file descriptor limit to 4,096 for functions running on Lambda Managed Instances The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now supports a...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 23rd, with Corey Quinn. Links : Amazon Corretto 26 is now generally available Amazon SimpleDB now supports exporting domain data to Amazon S3 AWS CDK Mixins is now generally available AWS Lambda Managed Instances now supports Rust Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports log ingestion using HTTP-based protocol AWS Lambda now supports Availability Zone metadata Ex...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 16th, with Corey Quinn. Links : Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces increased query concurrency and API limits Introducing Amazon Connect Health, Agentic AI Built for Healthcare Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver is now generally available AWS simplifies IAM role creation and setup in service workflows Database Savings Plans now supports Amazon OpenSearch Service...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 2nd, with Corey Quinn. Links : Amazon Aurora DSQL launches Playground for interactive database exploration  Amazon Redshift Serverless introduces 3-year Serverless Reservations Amazon S3 now provides AWS source region information in server access logs  AWS Compute Optimizer now applies AWS-generated tags to EBS snapshots created during automation AWS Lambda...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 23rd, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Bedrock expands support for AWS PrivateLink AWS CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules eliminate alert fatigue Amazon EC2 supports nested virtualization on virtual Amazon EC2 instances Announcing Amazon DocumentDB long-term support (LTS) on 5.0 AWS Certificate Manager updates default certificate validity to comply with new guide...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 17th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available in additional AWS Regions Amazon Bedrock adds support for six fully-managed open weights models AWS Config now supports 30 new resource types Announcing new Amazon EC2 general purpose M8azn instances AWS Network Firewall announces new price reductions Amazon S3 Tables add partition and sor...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 9th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Change the server-side encryption type of Amazon S3 objects Announcing memory-optimized instance bundles for Amazon Lightsail Amazon RDS now provides an enhanced console experience to connect to a database AWS Multi-party approval now requires one-time password verification for voting AWS Management Console now displays Accou...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 2nd, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Network Firewall now supports GenAI traffic visibility and enforcement with Web category-based filtering More room to build: serverless services now support payloads up to 1 MB Introducing pre-warming for Amazon Keyspaces tables Managing IP address exhaustion for Amazon RDS Proxy Strategies for upgrading Amazon Aurora Pos...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 26th, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS on Customer Choice & Multicloud AWS Adds Policy Details to Access Denied Errors Amazon ECR Cross-Repository Layer Sharing Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments (<5s downtime) S3 Storage Lens Now in GovCloud (US) Enterprise-Scale Migration to Apache Iceberg Kafka-Based Oracle LOB Migration to AWS Aurora PostgreSQL Share...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 20th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Unanchored ACCOUNT_ID webhook filters for CodeBuild Amazon EBS now supports up to four Elastic Volumes modifications in 24 hours AWS Databases are now available on v0 by Vercel AWS Lambda announces cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams Enhanced Transactions view now available in AWS Billing Console AWS Data Exports adds...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 12th, with Corey Quinn.