AWS Morning Brief

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 29th, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon GameLift now includes containers support (Preview)Introducing Amazon Route 53 ProfilesAmazon Simple Email Service is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) RegionAmazon Time Sync Service expands Microsecond-Accurate time to 87 additonal EC2 instance typesHow to Migrate Content from Amazon WorkDocsBuild and deploy a 1 TB/s file system in under an hourAWS Response to March 2024 CSRB reportchance to be actual leaderspeople turning down job offers

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 22, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS IAM Identity Center adds independent 90-days session duration for Amazon CodeWhispererDeloitte and AWS Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate Cloud Adoption in Growth MarketsImprove cost visibility of Amazon EKS with AWS Split Cost Allocation DataCongratulations to the PartyRock generative AI hackathon winnersAccess Amazon RDS across AWS accounts using AWS PrivateLink, Network Load Balancer, and Amazon RDS ProxyProgrammatic approach to optimize the cost of Amazon RDS snapshotsReduce cost and improve performance by migrating to Amazon DocumentDB 5.0A secure approach to generative AI with AWSAWS celebrates big technology wins at NAB 2024New AWS survey reveals the link between AI fluency and the next education revolutionCVE-2024-28056Creating shortcut links to AWS Management Console destinations - AWS IAM Identity Center

AWS Morning Brief for the week of 04/15/24, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Route 53 adds support for 18 additional Top-Level DomainsAnnouncing AWS Transfer Family workshop for building secure file transfer solutions using SFTPNew AWS monetization solution demonstrations at NAB Show 2024Optimizing AWS Backup costs

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 8, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring is now generally availableAmazon SageMaker Canvas announces new pricing for training tabular modelsIntroducing AWS CodeConnections, formerly known as AWS CodeStar ConnectionsAmazon CloudWatch now supports cross-account anomaly detectionAmazon EKS extended support for Kubernetes versions now generallyAnnouncing AWS Deadline CloudAWS Console Mobile Application adds support for CloudWatch custom dashboardsAWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 3.3Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6 instancesAnnouncing per-second billing for EC2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-based instancesWhy AWS Supports ValkeyAWS Activate credits now accepted for third-party models on Amazon BedrockDoorDash saves millions annually using Amazon S3 Storage Lens

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 1, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: AI recommendations for descriptions in Amazon DataZone now generally availableAmazon DynamoDB Import from S3 now supports up to 50,000 Amazon S3 objects in a single bulk importAmazon Time Sync Service now supports microsecond-accurate time in US East (N. Virginia) RegionAWS Billing and Cost Management Data Exports now supports AWS CloudFormationAWS Compute Optimizer introduces memory customizability for EC2 rightsizing recommendationsAWS Cost Allocation Tags now support retroactive applicationEstimating the charges for Amazon RDS Extended SupportAmazon completes $4B Anthropic investment to advance generative AI

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 25, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS PrivateLinkAmazon WorkMail now supports Audit LoggingAWS announces a 7-day window to return Savings PlansAWS CodeBuild now supports custom images for AWS Lambda computeEC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts now provide visibility into supported macOS versionsInvoke AWS Lambda functions from cross-account Amazon Kinesis Data StreamsTraeger Grills’s Customer Experience team drives customer satisfaction significantly using Amazon QuickSightBulk update Amazon DynamoDB tables with AWS Step FunctionsSimplify cross-account access control with Amazon DynamoDB using resource-based policiesHow to securely provide access to centralized AWS CloudTrail Lake logs across accounts in your organizationHow to optimize DNS for dual-stack networksIntroducing mTLS for Application Load Balancer6 foundational capabilities you need for generative AIIt’s time to evolve IT procurementAWS and NVIDIA extend their collaboration to advance generative AI

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 18, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon EFS now supports up to 20 GiB/s of throughputAmazon SES now offers support for headers when sending emailAWS announces Aurora MySQL integration with Amazon Bedrock for Generative AIAWS Backup now supports restore testing for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots ArchiveExperience up to 40% faster stack creation with AWS CloudFormationAWS Cost Categories launches a revamped user interfaceAnthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model is now available on Amazon BedrockNew European study: AI skills will significantly boost productivity and salaries

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 11, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: Start your Engines! Announcing the 2024 AWS DeepRacer LeagueAccelerate no-code ML with a refreshed homepage in Amazon SageMaker CanvasAWS re:Post introduces re:Post LiveHow Accenture Accelerates Building a Secure Cloud Foundation Natively on AWSAccenture scored itself an S3 bucket negligence awardRevolutionize Your Business with AWS Generative AI Competency PartnersAmazon RDS now supports io2 Block Express volumes for mission-critical database workloadsFree data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWSUnlocking Innovation: AWS and Anthropic push the boundaries of generative AI togetherThe benefits of running controlled substance databases with AWSIntroducing the AWS WAF traffic overview dashboard

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 4, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon CloudFront announces availability of Embedded Points of PresenceAmazon CloudWatch Logs now supports IPv6Amazon Data Firehose adds message extraction feature for decompressed CloudWatch LogsAmazon EC2 m7i.metal-24xl instance is now generally available for VMware Cloud on AWSAmazon EKS announces support for Amazon Linux 2023AWS announces Amazon Neptune I/O-OptimizedAWS Batch now offers multi-container jobsNew AWS Region in Mexico is in the worksEngage online sports fans with live event commentary using generative AI on Amazon BedrockDelivering Business Value with Cloud Platform TeamsThe Power of Cloud Storage for Small and Medium Businesses: Unlocking Efficiency and Security

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 26, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Incident Detection and Response now offers five minute response time for critical incidentsMultiple solution tagging on ACE opportunitiesIntroducing the .NET 8 runtime for AWS LambdaBest practices for managing Terraform State files in AWS CI/CD PipelineUnderstand Amazon S3 data transfer costs by classifying requests with Amazon Athena

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 20, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Bedrock console gets a modern look-and-feelAWS Control Tower introduces APIs to register Organizational UnitsBuild generative AI chatbots using prompt engineering with Amazon Redshift and Amazon BedrockHow to enforce creation of roles in a specific path: Use IAM role naming in hierarchy models

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 12, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links: re:Invent 2023 Cost Optimization highlights that you were not expectingAWS Twitch show on cost optimizationFive things to consider when choosing your cloud providerAnnouncing CDK Migrate: A single command to migrate to the AWS CDKAccenture creates a regulatory document authoring solution using AWS generative AI servicesUsing one-click unsubscribe with Amazon SESHow to interconnect AWS Cloud WAN core networks

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 5, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon EC2 added new price protection for attribute based instance selectionAWS announces a new Local Zone in Chicago, IllinoisAWS Free Tier now includes 750 hours of free Public IPv4 addresses, as charges for Public IPv4 beginOptimize costs by automating AWS Compute Optimizer recommendationsA new and improved AWS CDK construct for Amazon DynamoDB tablesAnnouncing Generative AI CDK ConstructsAWS Marketplace now available in the AWS Secret RegionBuilding your machine learning skills from zeroGoogle ColabRHEL Pricing – Amazon Web ServicesIncorrect RI / SP Purchase Warnings

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 29, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Billing Conductor releases account-scoped custom line itemsIntroducing IPv6 instance bundles on Amazon LightsailSellers can now resell third-party professional services in AWS MarketplaceThe Journey to IPv6 on Amazon EKS: Foundation (Part 1)Deploy a Microsoft Teams gateway for Amazon Q, your business expertRED Camera Cloud Upload to AWSVMware’s Cloud Journey: AWS Account Management at Scale

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 22, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS CodeBuild announces support for reserved capacityAWS Config now supports 22 new resource typesAWS Transfer Family provides static IP addresses for SFTP connectorsGLIDE for Redis, an OSS Redis client sponsored by AWS, now available in previewROSA with hosted control planes (HCP) is generally availableHow Infosys is Reimagining Enterprise Solutions with Generative AI on AWSAWS Marketplace features to accelerate your renewals strategyAmazon EKS extended support for Kubernetes versions pricing

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 16, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Accounts discontinues the use of security challenge questionsAWS CodeBuild now supports a X-Large Linux compute typeIntroducing Open Job Description, an open specification for portable render jobsReducing Inference Times by 87% for Darwinbox’s Talent Search Engine Using AWS InferentiaAmazon ECS supports a native integration with Amazon EBS volumes for data-intensive workloadsAWS to Shut down Aurora Serverless v1

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 8th, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.12Amazon EC2 Serial Console is now available in all Local ZonesmacOS support policy updates for the AWS CLI v2How Transfer Family can help you build a secure, compliant managed file transfer solution

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of December 27, 2023. This episode originally aired on March 29, 2023. Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/s3-as-an-eternal-service/ Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Help the show Leave a reviewShare your feedback Buy our merch https://store.lastweekinaws.com What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig)See our recent work at the Duckbill GroupApply to work with Corey and the Duckbill Group to help lower your AWS bill

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of December 13, 2023. This episode originally aired on February 16, 2022. Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/gYJgDymP_GU?si=s5lkpRjpGSkC58v_ Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Help the show Leave a reviewShare your feedback Buy our merch https://store.lastweekinaws.com What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig)See our recent work at the Duckbill GroupApply to work with Corey and the Duckbill Group to help lower your AWS bill

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 11, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Titan Image Generator foundation model in Amazon Bedrock now available in previewAmazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) RegionAmazon Redshift extends SUPER data type column size support to 16 MBAWS Secrets Manager announces 99.99% Service Level AgreementBuild Better Engagement using the AWS Community Engagement Flywheel: Part 1 of 3Simplify Modernization of your monolithic application using Amazon VPC LatticeCelebrate with 12 days of AWS Activate