Episode notes
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…
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.
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E721 · 26 May 2026 · 6 min
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