Last Week In AWS Podcast

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, June 30th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: What is AWS Security Hub? Amazon data center complex Code reviews in you IDE AWS Local Zones Features - AWS   Last Week in AWS Slack community Amazon VPC raises default Route Table capacity Announcing Intelligent Search for re:Post and re:Post Private How to Set Up Automated Alerts for Newly Purchased AWS Savings Plans...

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 types AWS expands resource control policies (RCPs) support to two additional services One Year EC2 Instance Savings Plans are now available for P5 and P5en instances AWS Certificate Manager introduces exportable public SSL/TLS certificates to use anywhere Verify i...

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) region Amazon S3 Tables now provide storage cost visibility for individual tables AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for CloudWatch Log Insights AWS launches public preview of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) Stream multi-channel audio to Amazon...

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 AMIs AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Aurora I/O-Optimized recommendations AWS 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 reduct...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 2nd, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon ECS increases container exit reason message to 1024 characters Amazon GameLift Servers SDKs are now on GitHub AWS Cost Explorer now offers new Cost Comparison feature AWS DataSync simplifies and accelerates cross-cloud data transfers AWS Secrets Manager announces support for cost allocation tags for secrets CloudTrail Lak...

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 seconds Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 4.0 AWS Control Tower releases Enabled controls view for centralized visibility - AWS AWS Cost Anomaly Detection enables advanced alerting through AWS User Notifications AWS se...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 19th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports resource exclusion AWS announces new AWS Data Transfer Terminal location in the San Francisco Bay Area Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability Accelerate the modernization of Mainframe and VMware workloads with AWS Transform New Amazon EC2 P6-B2...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 12th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon Connect external voice pricing changes AWS Marketplace now supports SaaS products from all deployment locations Amazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experience Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generation In the works – AWS South America (Chile) Region Monitoring...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 5th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Automated HTTP validated public certificates with Amazon CloudFront AWS Systems Manager launches just-in-time node access MAP enhancements to accelerate AI customer adoption Announcing SaaS Manager for Amazon CloudFront Announcing second-generation AWS Outposts racks Amazon CloudWatch launches tiered pricing and additional destin...

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 inst...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 21st, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS simplifies Amazon VPC Peering billing AWS now allows customers in Europe to pay For their usage in advance AWS Lambda@Edge announces advanced logging controls Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Dakar Announcing the AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens Announcing General Availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q Racing...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 14th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Route 53 adds public authoritative DNS service to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions Cost Optimization Hub supports DynamoDB and MemoryDB reservation recommendations Load Balancer Capacity Unit Reservation for Gateway Load Balancers Announcing new AWS Elemental MediaTailor pricing model with lower VOD ad insertion costs How AWS a...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 7th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon EC2 now supports more bandwidth and jumbo frames to select destinations API Gateway launches support for dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints AWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 3.4 Amazon CloudWatch Logs increases maximum log event size to 1 MB Amazon Neptune announces 99.99% availability Service Level Agreement Announcing...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 31st, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon DynamoDB now supports percentile statistics for request latency Amazon EKS now enforces upgrade insights checks as part of cluster upgrades Amazon GameLift Servers expands instance support with next-generation EC2 instance families AWS CloudFormation now supports targeted resource scans in the IaC generator AWS adds cur...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 24th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS Client VPN increases authorization rules and route quotas Announcing the New AWS Wickr Admin Console AWS announces the next generation of Amazon Connect where powerful AI improves every customer interaction Manage SLO exclusion time windows using CloudWatch Application Signals Handling billions of invocations – best practi...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 17th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon Bedrock now supports multi-agent collaboration Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250213 Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow introduces a new visual editor to improve DNS policy editing Application Load Balancer announces integration with Amazon VPC IPAM Announcing the end of support for Node.js...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 10th, 2025 with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon Bedrock launches Session Management APIs for GenAI applications (Preview) Announcing Amazon GameLift Streams Amazon Q Developer announces a new CLI agent within the command line AWS Secrets Manager increases the API Requests per Second limits AWS Transfer Family announces reduced login latency for SFTP servers IAM...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 3, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon Connect reduces telephony pricing in Vietnam Amazon EC2 announces Time-based Copy for AMIs Amazon Location Service now supports AWS PrivateLink Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now available in Amazon Bedrock AWS Batch now supports resource aware scheduling AWS Chatbot is now named Amazon Q Developer AWS CodePipeline intro...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 24, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon ECS increases the CPU limit for ECS tasks to 192 vCPUs Amazon Q Developer now supports upgrade to Java 21 AWS announces Backup Payment Methods for invoices AWS CodePipeline adds native Amazon EKS deployment support AWS Price List API supports AWS PrivateLink AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review Cost optimize your Mi...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 17, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon DynamoDB now supports auto-approval of quota adjustments Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now adds full snapshot size information in Console and API Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250103 Amazon Redshift Serverless announces reduction in IP Address Requirements to 3 per Subnet AWS Dea...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 10, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon EBS now supports additional resource-level permissions for creating EBS volumes from snapshots Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector adds support for cross-account ingestion Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in 1 additional region Amazon Q Developer now troubleshoots AWS Console errors in a...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 3, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.32 Amazon S3 Metadata is now generally available Amazon Timestream for InfluxDb now supports Storage Scaling AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python 3.13 on Amazon Linux 2023 AWS Health now suppor...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 27, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon Bedrock Flows announces preview of multi-turn conversation support Amazon CloudWatch allows alarming on data up to 7 days old Amazon S3 Tables are now available in five additional AWS Regions AWS Client VPN announces support for concurrent VPN connections AWS CodeBuild now supports test splitting and parallelism AWS Mar...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 21, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS CodePipeline introduces new debugging experience in AWS Management Console The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts EC2 Image Builder simplifies converting Windows ISO files to AMIs Now open — AWS Mexico (Central) Region AWS CDK is splitting Construct Library and CLI Amazon Bed...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 13, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon DynamoDB now supports configurable point-in-time-recovery periods AWS Compute Optimizer now expands idle and rightsizing recommendations for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups Announcing the new AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region | AWS News Blog Shaping the future of CDK together The benefits of an email-based AI virtual as...