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Last Week In AWS Podcast

by Corey Quinn · English · Tech & Science

The latest in AWS news, sprinkled with snark. Posts about AWS come out over sixty times a day. We filter through it all to find the hidden gems, the community contributions--the stuff worth hearing about! Then we summarize it with snark and share it with you--minus the nonsense.

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 6 min
Latest: 5 Oct 2026
Language: English

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026 · 6 min

Your Database Is a Data Lake Now, Apparently

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 estimate bytes scanned before running a query AWS Budgets now supports email verification for notification subscribers Running multi-day AZ evacuation drills with ARC Zonal Shift Amazon Aurora…

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E739 · 28 Sep 2026 · 6 min

The Week AWS Was Wrong, Not Broken

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 Amazon EventBridge for enterprise-scale event-driven applications Adding custom domains to AWS Lambda MicroVMs with Application Load Balancer Running self-hosted AI agent sandboxes with AWS Lambda…
E738 · 21 Sep 2026 · 4 min

T8i Instances Bursting With Mild Enthusiasm

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 candidates with AI-powered Amazon Connect Talent AWS STS simplifies session token size limits and adds session token size monitoring Seven AWS CVEs and the client-side patching tax
E737 · 14 Sep 2026 · 4 min

Lambda Slowly Becomes EC2, One Feature at a Time

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 How AWS thinks about FinOps Automation and Trust Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones across AWS accounts How to migrate from Amazon CloudSearch to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Introducing Pizza…
E736 · 8 Sep 2026 · 6 min

Claude Fable 5.1 and Other Bedtime Stories

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 plans AAA games on a $35 stick: How Luna removes the hardware barrier with AWS How t54 built a trust layer with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS Tokenomics at…
E735 · 31 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Happy 20th Birthday EC2, You Beautiful Disaster

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 Data Exports AWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support Happy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2 I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000…
E734 · 24 Aug 2026 · 6 min

London Gets an AZ, You Get an Outage

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 Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo Amazon Linux default SSM parameter will now track the latest kernel Introducing public preview runtimes on AWS Lambda, starting with Node.js 26 and Python…
E733 · 17 Aug 2026 · 6 min

The Week AWS Explained Its Own Error Messages

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 AWS Outposts workloads to Amazon EC2 Designing for failure: Building resilient systems on AWS Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work Introducing the next-generation AWS VPN Client…
E732 · 10 Aug 2026 · 9 min

DynamoDB Does Vectors Now, Because Of Course It Does

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 understand and estimate combined AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced costs Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale Runtime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on…
E731 · 3 Aug 2026 · 7 min

BGP, Oracle, and Other Things That Hurt

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 Center extends multi-Region support to Identity Center directory AWS announces general availability of Policy-Based Routing on AWS Transit Gateway IAM Policy Simulator moves to the IAM console and…
E730 · 27 Jul 2026 · 8 min

New Tools, Ancient Failures, Same Old AWS

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 quota to 2,000 per organization AWS now supports automatic credit memo application preferences AWS Secrets Manager now publishes secret update notifications to Amazon EventBridge JVM memory, CPU, and…
E729 · 20 Jul 2026 · 8 min

You Owe Your Country's GDP to AWS

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 console AWS Lambda announces self-managed code storage Amazon S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale…
E728 · 13 Jul 2026 · 6 min

United Solved IP Exhaustion, You Won't Believe How

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 resources Amazon Cognito now supports self-service provisioned API rate limits AWS Security Hub adds impact analysis for exposure findings Blazing a Trail: How Peloton Rebuilt the SDLC for the Agentic Era…
E727 · 6 Jul 2026 · 5 min

AWS Discovers ACME Isn't Just Roadrunner Stuff

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 Automate public TLS certificate issuance with ACME support in AWS Certificate Manager Upgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacks Safely Releasing Frontier Models to…
E726 · 29 Jun 2026 · 6 min

Open Governance for MySQL Plot Twist

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 lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs Upgrading Lambda function runtimes at scale with AWS Transform custom Huntington Bank: Redacting sensitive data from 400M+ documents with AWS Open Governance…
E725 · 22 Jun 2026 · 9 min

MySQL 5.7 Will Outlive Us All

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 AWS (Preview) AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EBS volume recommendations with additional performance metrics Introducing AWS Continuum for security at machine speed AWS Management Console Private…
E724 · 15 Jun 2026 · 9 min

27 Security Bulletins and Other Bedtime Reading

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 Detail Page Anthropic Claude Fable 5 on AWS: Mythos-class capabilities with built-in safeguards now available Now available: Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by new AWS Graviton5 processors Try…
E723 · 8 Jun 2026 · 7 min

OpenAI on Bedrock and Other Strange Bedfellows

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 supports 32-day lookback for EBS volume and ECS service rightsizing recommendations AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now supports Athena and Redshift integration Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports…
E722 · 1 Jun 2026 · 6 min

The Week AWS Remembered GovCloud Exists

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 available on AWS Best Practices for TCP Connection Management on EC2 Introducing US-based, US citizen, 24/7 technical support for AWS GovCloud (US) customers: Your mission never sleeps, neither do we…
E721 · 26 May 2026 · 6 min

AWS and Oracle Together at Last, Apparently

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 Aurora MySQL 8.4 is now generally available Introducing ExtendDB: An open source DynamoDB-compatible adapter with pluggable storage backends Nine Entertainment’s journey: Achieving 98% cost savings…
E720 · 18 May 2026 · 7 min

M3 Ultra Macs, Claude Platform, and 619 New APIs Walk Into a Bar

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 Express for Amazon EC2 instances now supports traffic between Availability Zones Streaming CloudWatch metrics to VPC-based OpenTelemetry collectors using Lambda How HotelTrader cut inter-AZ cost 95%…
E719 · 11 May 2026 · 7 min

AI-Native Foundations and the CVEs That Love Them

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 identity providers AWS Marketplace now supports programmatic procurement with Agreements API The AWS MCP Server is now generally available Announcing Valkey 9.0 for Amazon ElastiCache Query billion-scale…
E718 · 4 May 2026 · 9 min

Bedrock Bags OpenAI, Q Developer Bags Groceries

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 OpenSearch Service now supports index-level encryption Amazon Redshift Serverless AI-driven scaling is now the default for new workgroups AWS Cost Optimization Hub now supports CSV download AWS KMS now…
E717 · 27 Apr 2026 · 10 min

The Week AWS Discovered JOIN Statements

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 Amazon S3 buckets as file systems with S3 Files Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights introduces JOIN and sub-query commands AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java GA Amazon S3 Express One Zone now…
E716 · 20 Apr 2026 · 6 min

Multicloud Interconnect and the Great CVE Hunt

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 availability of AWS Interconnect - multicloud Automate AWS Cost Reporting with Scheduled Dashboard Email Delivery Introducing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 model in Amazon Bedrock Introducing Amazon Bio…
E715 · 13 Apr 2026 · 6 min

S3 Files and an AI-Powered Singing Rat Trap

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 now supports custom input for AWS KMS keys Amazon Bedrock now supports cost allocation by IAM user and role Amazon S3 starts rolling out new security best practice to new and existing buckets by…
E714 · 6 Apr 2026 · 5 min

S3 Gets Vectors, CloudFront Gets SHA-256, You Get the Bill

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 preview Announcing compute-optimized instance bundles for Amazon Lightsail Announcing managed daemon support for Amazon ECS Managed Instances Leverage Agentic AI for Autonomous Incident Response with…
E713 · 30 Mar 2026 · 4 min

Aurora PostgreSQL: Now Free Enough to Be Dangerous

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 automatic query caching with Valkey Announcing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL serverless database creation in seconds Enhancing auto scaling resilience by tracking worker utilization metrics Amazon…
E712 · 23 Mar 2026 · 10 min

S3 Turns 20 and SimpleDB Is Still Alive

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 Expanding the BOX Program to Business Consulting and Advisory Partners Twenty years of Amazon S3 and building what’s next Synchronizing a Backup on-premises Db2 Server with Amazon RDS for Db2 AWS and…
E711 · 16 Mar 2026 · 11 min

Beanstalk AI: The Resurrection Nobody Asked For

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 and Amazon Neptune Analytics AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis AWS Elastic Beanstalk launches Deployments tab with in-progress deployment logs Multi-party approval now…

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Publisher: Corey Quinn
Language: English
Category: Tech & Science
New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 6 min
Latest episode: 5 Oct 2026
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