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AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 22, 2025, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Automate java performance troubleshooting with AI-Powered thread dump analysis on Amazon ECS and EKS Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructure Optimize WordPress performance on Amazon EKS with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS AWS reduces publishing time for Carbon F...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 15th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Exploring the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference Framework Now generally available: Amazon EC2 C8gb instances Amazon CloudWatch SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocols Building national foundation models New report: Cloud “fundamental” for European national security and defense AI Increased Productivi...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 8th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Introducing Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver for secure anycast DNS resolution (preview) Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud Introducing AWS Transform custom: Crush tech debt with AI-powered code modernization Amazon CloudWa...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 1st, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Protect sensitive data with dynamic data masking for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Amazon CloudFront announces support for mutual TLS authentication Amazon EC2 announces interruptible Capacity Reservations Introducing guidelines for network scanning Practical implementation considerations to close the AI value gap Everything you...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 24th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Announcing agreement EventBridge notifications for AWS Marketplace Network Load Balancers now support Weighted Target Groups AWS NAT Gateway now supports regional availability AWS Secrets Manager announces managed external secrets Accelerate infrastructure development with AWS CloudFormation intelligent authoring in IDEs AW...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 17th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Custom domain names for VPC Lattice resources AWS Lambda networking over IPv6 AWS Control Tower supports automatic enrollment of accounts Amazon Braket Notebook Environments Now Support CUDA-Q Natively Amazon MSK Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing for 180 times faster operation performance Amazon Keyspaces n...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 10th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS PrivateLink now supports cross-region connectivity for AWS Services AWS announces new partnership to power OpenAI's AI workloads Prompt engineering with PartyRock: A guide for educators   New whitepaper available – AI for Security and Security for AI: Navigating Opportunities and Challenges From Business Logic to Workin...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 3rd, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Beyond pilots: A proven framework for scaling AI to production New Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor EC2 instances exceeding I/O performance Processing Amazon S3 objects at scale with AWS Step Functions Distributed Map S3 prefix What’s the difference between AWS ParallelCluster and AWS Parallel Computing Service? France T...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 27th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Streamline in-place application upgrades with Amazon VPC Lattice Build a proactive AI cost management system for Amazon Bedrock – Part 2 - Overview and best practices of multithreaded replication in Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB, and Amazon Aurora MySQL   AWS announces Nitro Enclaves are now available in all A...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 20th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon Location Service Introduces New Map Styling Features for Enhanced Customization AWS Resource Explorer launches immediate resource discovery within a Region   AWS SAM CLI adds Finch support, expanding local development tool options for serverless applications Simplified model access in Amazon Bedrock Amazon EC2 now sup...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 13th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: Introducing AWS Pricing Capabilities in Amazon Q Developer: Ask Questions, Get Instant Cost Insights Amazon Location Service Updates for Vietnam's New Administrative Boundaries Part 6: Effective sunset of the legacy data platform in BBVA: the migration methodology   Amazon Q Developer and Kiro – Prompt Injection Issues...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 6th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: Deploying AI models for inference with AWS Lambda using zip packaging Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances   Amazon EBS increases the maximum size and provisioned performance of General Purpose (gp3) volumes   Accelerating AWS Infrastructure Deployment: A Practical Guide to Console-to-Code   AWS Builder ID now support...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 29th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.  Links: You can now preview Amazon S3 Tables in the S3 console AWS Organizations supports full IAM policy language for service control policies (SCPs) Amazon Route 53 Resolver Query Logging now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) A guide to reducing waste and improving efficiency with AWS Amazon RDS announces cross-Regio...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 22nd, 2025, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Qwen models are now available in Amazon Bedrock AWS Budgets now supports custom time periods Amazon CloudWatch launches Cross-Account and Cross-Region Log Centralization Amazon S3 now supports conditional deletes in S3 general purpose buckets New fault action in AWS FIS to inject I/O latency on Amazon EBS volumes AWS...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 15th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Enforcing organization-wide Amazon S3 bucket-tagging policies ECS Exec is now available in the AWS Management Console AWS Control Tower now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Introducing AWS CDK Refactor (Preview) Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE AWS WAF now includes f...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 8th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29 AWS IAM launches new VPC endpoint condition keys for network perimeter controls RDS Data API now supports IPv6 Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region AWS Resource Explorer is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region Protect your Amazon Route 53 DNS...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 2nd, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: How Ancestry optimizes a 100-billion-row Iceberg table Mastering Amazon Q Developer with Rules   Bob’s Used Books: Build a .NET Serverless Application on AWS – Part 2: Architecture How Amazon Finance built an AI assistant using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Kendra to support analysts for data discovery and business insight...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 25th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:  AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy SQL injection vulnerability in the AWS Aurora DSQL MCP Server | by Michael Kandelaars | Aug, 2025 | Medium Top AWS chip engineer reportedly defects to Arm Copilot Broke Your Audit Log, but Microsoft Won’t Tell You - Pistachio Blog - Cybersecurity Awareness Trainin...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 18th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.  Links: a billion dollars in savings   highlights why I'm wrong Demystifying Amazon Bedrock Pricing for a Chatbot Assistant Improving Your Visibility to AWS Sales: A Practical Guide for Partners Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in Amazon Bedrock Expanded Context Window Amazon EC2 Single GPU P5 instances are now generally available  ...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 11th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:  AWS Cloud Visibility Best Practices This Ars article AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens Amazon killing a user’s account Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver v2: Accelerated performance and improved resource usage for Kubernetes workloads Streamlining outbound emails with Amazon SES Mail Manager AW...

  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 OSS Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available   AWS Lambda response streaming now supports 200 MB resp...

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 support Boost 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...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 21st, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon EBS now provides visibility into EBS volume initialization status The Amazon S3 console now displays an external access summary for all your buckets Amazon S3 Tables reduce compaction costs by up to 90% AWS API MCP Server now available   AWS Cost Anomaly Detection improves accuracy with model enhancements AWS Price...

  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 Connectivity Oracle Database@AWS announces general availability, expands networking capabilities Amazon Bedrock introduces API keys for streamlined development Announcing AWS Builder Center Amazon P6e-GB200 UltraServers now available for the highest GPU pe...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 7th, with Corey Quinn.   Links: Finch expands support to Ubuntu, streamlining container development across platforms Amazon CloudFront announces support for HTTPS DNS records Amazon Q Business launches the ability to customize responses Build the highest resilience apps with multi-Region strong consistency in Amazon DynamoDB global tables Leveling up...