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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…
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Last Week In AWS Podcast
Corey Quinn · Tech & Science · English
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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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