AWS Morning Brief

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 12th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Connect external voice pricing changesAWS Marketplace now supports SaaS products from all deployment locationsAmazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experienceAmazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generationIn the works – AWS South America (Chile) RegionMonitoring network traffic in AWS Lambda functionsAnnouncing the end of support for AWS DynamoDB Session State ProviderWordFinder app: Harnessing generative AI on AWS for aphasia communicationAccelerating government efficiency with AWS Enterprise SupportIntroducing the AWS Zero Trust Accelerator for GovernmentSponsor The Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/ Join us for Office Hours! https://www.duckbillgroup.com/officehours/

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 5th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Automated HTTP validated public certificates with Amazon CloudFrontAWS Systems Manager launches just-in-time node accessMAP enhancements to accelerate AI customer adoptionAnnouncing SaaS Manager for Amazon CloudFrontAnnouncing second-generation AWS Outposts racksAmazon CloudWatch launches tiered pricing and additional destinations for AWS Lambda logsAWS Launch Wizard automates multi-node SAP NetWeaver deployment on SAP ASE DatabaseAWS Lambda standardizes billing for INIT PhaseSponsor The Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/ Join us for Office Hours! https://www.duckbillgroup.com/officehours/

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 28th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)Amazon Cognito now supports refresh token rotationAmazon Q Developer releases state-of-the-art agent for feature developmentAWS Account Management now supports IAM-based account name updatesAWS CodeBuild adds support for specifying EC2 instance type and configurable storage sizeAWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon LightsailAWS STS global endpoint now serves your requests locally in Regions enabled by defaultAWS Transfer Family introduces Terraform module for deploying SFTP server endpointsHow Smartsheet reduced latency and optimized costs in their serverless architectureIn the works – New Availability Zone in Maryland for US East (Northern Virginia) RegionCVE-2025-3857 – Infinite loop condition in Amazon.IonDotnetI annotated Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 21st, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS simplifies Amazon VPC Peering billingAWS now allows customers in Europe to pay For their usage in advanceAWS Lambda@Edge announces advanced logging controlsAnnouncing new AWS Wavelength Zone in DakarAnnouncing the AWS Well-Architected Generative AI LensAnnouncing General Availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon QRacing beyond DeepRacer: Debut of the AWS LLM LeagueManage budgets efficiently with budget events in AWS Deadline Cloud

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 14th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Route 53 adds public authoritative DNS service to AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsCost Optimization Hub supports DynamoDB and MemoryDB reservation recommendationsLoad Balancer Capacity Unit Reservation for Gateway Load BalancersAnnouncing new AWS Elemental MediaTailor pricing model with lower VOD ad insertion costsHow AWS and Intel make LLMs more accessible and cost-effective with DeepSeekAnnouncing up to 85% price reductions for Amazon S3 Express One ZoneOptimize Amazon VPC Flow Logs analysis with Cribl Stream samplingExploring Data Transfer Costs for AWS Network Load Balancers

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 7th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon EC2 now supports more bandwidth and jumbo frames to select destinationsAPI Gateway launches support for dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpointsAWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 3.4Amazon CloudWatch Logs increases maximum log event size to 1 MBAmazon Neptune announces 99.99% availability Service Level AgreementAnnouncing the general availability of Amazon VPC Route ServerUnder the hood: Amazon EKS Auto ModeOptimizing cost savings: The advantage of Amazon Aurora over self-managed open source databasesHow AWS Sales uses generative AI to streamline account planningIssue with AWS SAM CLI (CVE-2025-3047, CVE-2025-3048)

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 31st, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon DynamoDB now supports percentile statistics for request latencyAmazon EKS now enforces upgrade insights checks as part of cluster upgradesAmazon GameLift Servers expands instance support with next-generation EC2 instance familiesAWS CloudFormation now supports targeted resource scans in the IaC generatorAWS adds currency selection to Payment ProfilesAWS Deadline Cloud now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)AWS announces expanded service support in the AWS Console Mobile AppAWS Network Manager and AWS Cloud WAN now support AWS PrivateLink and IPv6Unlocking the power of Splunk with Amazon Bedrock – Build AI assistant using agentsFrom virtual machine to Kubernetes to serverless: How dacadoo saved 78% on cloud costs and automated operationsAccelerating CI with AWS CodeBuild: Parallel test execution now availableAmazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story | AWS News BlogDetailed geographic information for all AWS Regions and Availability Zones is now availableOptimizing network footprint in serverless applicationsSimplifying private API integrations with Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step FunctionsAnnouncing the Developer Preview of Amazon S3 Transfer Manager in RustAWS SDK for Ruby: Deprecating Ruby 2.5 & 2.6 Runtime Supports and Future CompatibilityAnnouncing the AWS CDK L2 Construct for Amazon Cognito Identity PoolsAWS re:Invent 2024 recap for government agencies

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 24th, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Client VPN increases authorization rules and route quotasAnnouncing the New AWS Wickr Admin ConsoleAWS announces the next generation of Amazon Connect where powerful AI improves every customer interactionManage SLO exclusion time windows using CloudWatch Application SignalsHandling billions of invocations – best practices from AWS LambdaVisually build telephony applications with AWS Step FunctionsCorey is speaking at SREcon in Santa Clara!

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 17th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Bedrock now supports multi-agent collaborationAmazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250213Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow introduces a new visual editor to improve DNS policy editingApplication Load Balancer announces integration with Amazon VPC IPAMAnnouncing the end of support for Node.js 14.x and 16.x in AWS CDKWatch the recordings from AWS Developer Day 2025How GoDaddy built a category generation system at scale with batch inference for Amazon BedrockFormula 1® unlocks the most competitive season yet with AWSSecure cloud innovation starts at re:Inforce 2025

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 10th, 2025 with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Bedrock launches Session Management APIs for GenAI applications (Preview)Announcing Amazon GameLift StreamsAmazon Q Developer announces a new CLI agent within the command lineAWS Secrets Manager increases the API Requests per Second limitsAWS Transfer Family announces reduced login latency for SFTP serversIAM Access Analyzer now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)Streamline your AWS Marketplace renewalsIntroducing an enhanced local IDE experience for AWS Step FunctionsEnd of support notifications and enhanced discoverability for Amazon EKSThe end of an era: the final AWS DeepRacer League Championship at re:Invent 2024Securely onboarding countries to the AWS Cloud

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 3, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Connect reduces telephony pricing in VietnamAmazon EC2 announces Time-based Copy for AMIsAmazon Location Service now supports AWS PrivateLinkAnthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now available in Amazon BedrockAWS Batch now supports resource aware schedulingAWS Chatbot is now named Amazon Q DeveloperAWS CodePipeline introduces new console experience for viewing pipeline releasesYou can now use your China UnionPay credit card to create an AWS accountAccelerate Security Incident Response and Recovery with AWS Security Incident Response PartnersAmazon Web Services named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration ToolsMigrate very large databases to Amazon Aurora MySQL using MyDumper and MyLoaderAnnouncing CDK Garbage CollectionGenerate Code Documentation Using Amazon Q DeveloperByteDance processes billions of daily videos using their multimodal video understanding models on AWS Inferentia2Unlock deeper insights and faster investigations with AWS CloudTrail Lake

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 24, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon ECS increases the CPU limit for ECS tasks to 192 vCPUsAmazon Q Developer now supports upgrade to Java 21AWS announces Backup Payment Methods for invoicesAWS CodePipeline adds native Amazon EKS deployment supportAWS Price List API supports AWS PrivateLinkAWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in ReviewCost optimize your Minecraft Java EC2 ServerImproving Security in Amazon WorkMail with MFAUpdate on Support for Amazon ChimeBest practices to respond to security risks across your AWS OrganizationsReduce IT costs by implementing automatic shutdown for Amazon EC2 instancesHow to restrict Amazon S3 bucket access to a specific IAM roleIntroducing the AWS Trust CenterIs AWS Delivering on Its 3-Layer Approach to AI?

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 17, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon DynamoDB now supports auto-approval of quota adjustmentsAmazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now adds full snapshot size information in Console and APIAmazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250103Amazon Redshift Serverless announces reduction in IP Address Requirements to 3 per SubnetAWS Deadline Cloud now supports Adobe After Effects in Service-Managed FleetsAWS Network Load Balancer now supports removing availability zonesAWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints now generally availableHarness Amazon Bedrock Agents to Manage SAP InstancesTimestamp writes for write hedging in Amazon DynamoDBUpdating AWS SDK defaults – AWS STS service endpoint and Retry StrategyLearning AWS best practices from Amazon Q in the ConsoleAutomating Cost Optimization Governance with AWS ConfigAmazon Q Developer in chat applications rename - Summary of changes - AWS Chatbot

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 10, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon EBS now supports additional resource-level permissions for creating EBS volumes from snapshotsAmazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector adds support for cross-account ingestionAmazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in 1 additional regionAmazon Q Developer now troubleshoots AWS Console errors in all AWS Commercial regionsAmazon Q Developer introduces a new, simplified setup experience for Pro tier subscriptionsAWS IAM Identity Center now offers improved error messages and AWS CloudTrail logging for provisioning issuesAWS Step Functions now supports 100,000 state machines and activities per AWS accountCost Optimization Hub supports more EC2 Auto Scaling group recommendationsAnnouncing the general availability of AWS Database Migration Service Serverless support for files with an S3 source endpointAI-Powered Football Match Analysis: SAP Sports One on AWSIntroducing AWS CloudFormation Stack RefactoringAWS Tightens the Reins: New AWS SaaS Marketplace Rules Will Impact Your Commitments

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 3, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Mexico (Central) RegionAmazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.32Amazon S3 Metadata is now generally availableAmazon Timestream for InfluxDb now supports Storage ScalingAWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python 3.13 on Amazon Linux 2023AWS Health now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)Announcing AWS Managed Notifications in the AWS Console Mobile AppAnnouncing new AWS Wavelength Zone in CasablancaAWS now supports Zone Groups for Availability ZonesAnnouncing the AWS CDK Glue L2 ConstructDeploy DeepSeek-R1 Distilled Llama models in Amazon BedrockAnnouncing upcoming changes to the AWS Security Token Service global endpointDesign patterns for multi-tenant access control on Amazon S3Amazon Nimble Studio Closed to New Customers

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 27, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Bedrock Flows announces preview of multi-turn conversation supportAmazon CloudWatch allows alarming on data up to 7 days oldAmazon S3 Tables are now available in five additional AWS RegionsAWS Client VPN announces support for concurrent VPN connectionsAWS CodeBuild now supports test splitting and parallelismAWS Marketplace introduces 8 decimal place precision for usage pricingAnnouncing AWS User Notifications GA on AWS CloudFormationEnhance the resilience of critical workloads by architecting with multiple AWS RegionsIntroducing cross-account targets for Amazon EventBridge Event BusesDiving deep into the new Amazon Aurora Global Database writer endpointAWS and NANOG join forces: Unlocking IPv6 potential with the IPv6 Clinic at NANOG 93Issue with AWS Sign-in IAM User Login Flow – Possible Username Enumeration (CVE-2025-0693)

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 21, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS CodePipeline introduces new debugging experience in AWS Management ConsoleThe AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accountsEC2 Image Builder simplifies converting Windows ISO files to AMIsNow open — AWS Mexico (Central) RegionAWS CDK is splitting Construct Library and CLIAmazon Bedrock launches with Claude 3.5 Sonnet in the AWS Top Secret cloudPreventing unintended encryption of Amazon S3 objectsSecure root user access for member accounts in AWS Organizations | AWS Security BlogCost-optimized log aggregation and archival in Amazon S3 using s3tarIssue with Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream 2.0, and Amazon DCV (CVE-2025-0500 and CVE-2025-0501) Sponsor The Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 13, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon DynamoDB now supports configurable point-in-time-recovery periodsAWS Compute Optimizer now expands idle and rightsizing recommendations for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groupsAnnouncing the new AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region | AWS News BlogShaping the future of CDK togetherThe benefits of an email-based AI virtual assistant on AWSSecuring a city-sized event: How Amazon integrates physical and logical security at re:InventSponsor The Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 23, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces client for macOSAmazon EC2 instances support bandwidth configurations for VPC and EBSAmazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) connectivityAmazon WorkSpaces Thin Client now available to purchase in IndiaAWS Backup launches support for search and item-level recoveryAWS Mainframe Modernization now supports connectivity over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)AWS Marketplace now supports self-service promotional media on seller product detail pagesAWS re:Post now supports Spanish and PortugueseAWS Resource Explorer supports 59 new resource typesAWS offers a self-service feature to update business names on AWS InvoicesAnnouncing CloudFormation support for AWS Parallel Computing ServiceAnnouncing Node Health Monitoring and Auto-Repair for Amazon EKS - AWSAnd that’s a wrap!Best practices for creating a VPC for Amazon RDS for Db2How the Amazon TimeHub team handled disruption in AWS DMS CDC task caused by Oracle RESETLOGS: Part 3How to detect and monitor Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) access with AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatchEnforce resource configuration to control access to new features with AWSMaximizing your cloud journey: Engaging an AWS Solutions Architect

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 16th, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Bedrock Guardrails reduces pricing by up to 85%Amazon CloudWatch now provides centralized visibility into telemetry configurationsAmazon EC2 F2 instances, featuring up to 8 FPGAs, are generally availableAmazon SES now offers Global Endpoints for multi-region sending resilienceAWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now includes Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live TailAccelerate your AWS Graviton adoption with the AWS Graviton Savings DashboardCapture data changes while restoring an Amazon DynamoDB tableUnderstand the benefits of physical replication in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Blue/Green DeploymentsHow AWS sales uses Amazon Q Business for customer engagementAWS Network Firewall Geographic IP Filtering launchIssue with DynamoDB local - CVE-2022-1471