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   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…

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   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…

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   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…

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   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…

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   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…

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   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…

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   E740 · 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…

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   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

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    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…

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