Last Week In AWS Podcast

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 23, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces client for macOS Amazon EC2 instances support bandwidth configurations for VPC and EBS Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) connectivity Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client now available to purchase in India AWS Backup launches support for search and item-lev...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 16th, 2024, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon Bedrock Guardrails reduces pricing by up to 85% Amazon CloudWatch now provides centralized visibility into telemetry configurations Amazon EC2 F2 instances, featuring up to 8 FPGAs, are generally available Amazon SES now offers Global Endpoints for multi-region sending resilience AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio C...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 9, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS announces access to VPC resources over AWS PrivateLink Announcing Amazon Aurora DSQL (Preview) Announcing Amazon Bedrock IDE in preview as part of Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio AWS announces Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights Amazon DynamoDB global tables previews multi-Region strong consistency Amazon EC2 introduces Al...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 2, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon CloudWatch adds context to observability data in service consoles, accelerating analysis Amazon Cognito introduces Managed Login to support rich branding for end user journeys Amazon Cognito now supports passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins Amazon Connect Email is now generally available Amazon...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 25, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Enhanced account linking experience across AWS Marketplace and AWS Partner Central Amazon API Gateway now supports Custom Domain Name for private REST APIs Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 supports scaling to zero capacity Amazon CloudFront now supports Anycast Static IPs Amazon CloudFront now supports additional log formats and d...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 18, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Buy a shirt benefiting 826 National! Amazon DataZone updates pricing and removes the user-level subscription fee Amazon DynamoDB reduces prices for on-demand throughput and global tables Amazon DynamoDB introduces warm throughput for tables and indexes Amazon EBS now supports detailed performance statistics on EBS volume heal...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 11, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon CloudFront no longer charges for requests blocked by AWS WAF Amazon OpenSearch Service announces Extended Support for engine versions Configure Route53 CIDR blocks rules based on Internet Monitor suggestions Announcing an improved self-guided experience for AWS Partner Central AWS introduces service versioning and depl...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 4, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon CloudWatch now monitors EBS volumes exceeding provisioned performance Amazon Q Developer announces support for inline chat to streamline the developer experience Amazon Route 53 announces HTTPS, SSHFP, SVCB, and TLSA DNS resource record support Amazon Virtual Private Cloud launches new security group sharing features AW...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 28, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon Aurora launches Global Database writer endpoint Amazon Connect now offers screen sharing Amazon EKS endpoints now support connectivity over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) AWS IAM Identity Center simplifies calls to AWS services with single identity context EC2 Image Builder now supports building and testing macOS im...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 21, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon CloudFront launches support for JA4 fingerprinting Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now supports live migration-based host maintenance Amazon EFS now supports up to 60 GiB/s (a 2x increase) of read throughput Announcing Amazon Q in AWS Supply Chain Amazon S3 adds new Region and bucket name filtering for the ListBuckets API As...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 15, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey Amazon WorkSpaces now supports file transfer between WorkSpaces sessions and local devices AWS Application Composer is now AWS Infrastructure Composer AWS CodePipeline introduces new general purpose compute action AWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops between Lambda and Amazo...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 7, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS CloudShell extends most recent capabilities to all commercial Regions Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 now supports up to 256 ACUs Amazon S3 adds Service Quotas support for S3 general purpose buckets AWS announces Reserved Nodes flexibility for Amazon ElastiCache Duckbill Guide to AWS Reserved Instances Deprecation of Lake Forma...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 30, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports RDS Data API Introducing Amazon EC2 C8g and M8g Instances Amazon EC2 Instance Connect now supports IPv6 Amazon SNS now delivers SMS text messages via AWS End User Messaging AWS CloudFormation Git sync now supports pull request workflows to review your stack changes AWS CloudTrail launches net...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 23, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS Transfer Family increases throughput and file sizes supported by SFTP connectors   AWS WAF Bot Control Managed Rule expands bot detection capabilities   AWS named as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Announcing General Availability of the AWS SDK for Swift   Reinventing the Amazo...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 16, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon EC2 P5e instances are generally available via EC2 Capacity Blocks Announcing Storage Browser for Amazon S3 for your web applications (alpha release) Building a privacy preserving chatbot with Amazon Bedrock Faster development with Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Q Developer Linux Support Updates for AWS CLI v2 Best prompti...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 9th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Organizational Units in AWS Control Tower can now contain up to 1,000 accounts Amazon SES announces enhanced onboarding with adaptive setup wizard and Virtual Deliverability Manager AWS Glue now provides job queuing   AWS Network Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout AWS named as a Leader in the first Gar...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 3rd, with Mike Julian.  Links: Amazon Braket adds support for Rigetti's 84-Qubit Ankaa™-2 system, our largest gate-based superconducting device Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances Amazon EC2 status checks now support reachability health of attached EBS volumes Amazon EMR support prioritized and capacity-optimized-prioritized alloc...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 19th with Mike Julian.  Links: How AWS powered Prime Day 2024 for record-breaking sales New capabilities for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations: Split, Move, and Modify additional attributes Amazon QuickSight now includes nested filters Announcing Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class support on Amazon EMR Amazon Verified Permissions impr...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 12th with Mike Julian.  Links: Introducing AWS End User Messaging Amazon EFS now supports up to 30 GiB/s (a 50% increase) of read throughput Amazon RDS for Db2 supports loading data from Amazon S3 AWS announces private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnets Announcing delegated administrator for Cost Optimization Hub OpenSearch optimized instance (OR1...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 5th with Mike Julian.  Links: Introducing AWS End User Messaging AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances now support hibernation New Amazon CloudWatch dimensions for Amazon EC2 On Demand Capacity Reservations AWS and Multicloud: Existing capabilities & continued enhancements Deliver Amazon CloudWatch logs to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Cost Optimizer...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 29th, with Mike Julian. Links: Amazon VPC IPAM now supports BYOIP for IPs registered with any Internet Registry AWS Cost Categories now supports “Billing Entity” dimension   Enhance database performance with Amazon RDS dedicated log volumes QLDB deprecation--more on the way?

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 22nd, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports logging of all events in AWS CloudTrail AWS Cloud Control API now supports IPv6 AWS Private CA now supports ARM architecture in Kubernetes How Volkswagen streamlined access to data across multiple data lakes using Amazon DataZone – Part 1 Migrate an Amazon QLDB Ledger to Amazon Au...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 15th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon API Gateway WebSocket APIs now available in 7 additional AWS Regions Amazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 now generally available Announcing the next generation of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems Announcing AWS App Studio preview AWS Lambda introduces new controls to make it easier to search...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 8th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) AWS Control Tower introduces an API to discover landing zone operations AWS Direct Connect announces native 400 Gbps Dedicated Connections at select locations New MAP Incentives to Accelerate Migration and Modernization Managing the history of the NFL Announc...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 1st, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon DocumentDB announces IAM database authentication Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 now supports 100MB file uploads Amazon Time Sync Service expands microsecond-accurate time to 27 EC2 instance types Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces Pools, a new feature of Amazon WorkSpaces AWS CodeBuild supports Arm-based workloads usin...