AWS Morning Brief

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 13th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Introducing AWS Pricing Capabilities in Amazon Q Developer: Ask Questions, Get Instant Cost InsightsAmazon Location Service Updates for Vietnam's New Administrative BoundariesPart 6: Effective sunset of the legacy data platform in BBVA: the migration methodology Amazon Q Developer and Kiro – Prompt Injection Issues in Kiro and Q IDE plugins Amazon DynamoDB now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)AWS ranks #1 in Forecasting and Estimation Use Case in Gartner Critical Capabilities for Cloud Financial Management Tools report Introducing Amazon Quick Suite: your agentic AI-powered workspaceUnlock real-time advertising insights with Amazon Marketing Stream and AWSIMDS impersonationReduce Docker image build time on AWS CodeBuild using Amazon ECR as a remote cacheUnderstanding Amazon Chime SDK costs in AWS Cost ExplorerAWS Introduces self-service invoice correction featureBridging data silos: cross-bounded context querying with Vanguard’s Operational Read-only Data Store (ORDS) using Amazon Redshift Beyond Bootstrap: Bootstrapless CDK Deployments at GoDaddyAmazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.34Amazon SageMaker notebook instance now supports Amazon Linux 2023Your Ultimate Guide to Cloud Financial Management sessions at re:Invent 2025: Know Before You Go Automatic quota management is now generally available for AWS Service Quotas CVE-2025-11462 AWS ClientVPN macOS Client Local Privilege EscalationCVE-2025-11573 - Denial of Service issue in Amazon.IonDotnet

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 6th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Deploying AI models for inference with AWS Lambda using zip packagingAnnouncing Amazon ECS Managed Instances Amazon EBS increases the maximum size and provisioned performance of General Purpose (gp3) volumes Accelerating AWS Infrastructure Deployment: A Practical Guide to Console-to-Code AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Google Build a dynamic workflow orchestration engine with Amazon DynamoDB and AWS LambdaAWS Transfer Family adds support for additional IAM condition keys AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 99 new Amazon EC2 instance types

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 29th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:You can now preview Amazon S3 Tables in the S3 consoleAWS Organizations supports full IAM policy language for service control policies (SCPs)Amazon Route 53 Resolver Query Logging now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand)A guide to reducing waste and improving efficiency with AWSAmazon RDS announces cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copyAWS announces EC2 instance attestationHumane World for Animals uses AWS to scale global animal welfare programs deprecating its SOAP APIPrompt Library | AWS StartupsAWS named as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 22nd, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Qwen models are now available in Amazon BedrockAWS Budgets now supports custom time periodsAmazon CloudWatch launches Cross-Account and Cross-Region Log CentralizationAmazon S3 now supports conditional deletes in S3 general purpose bucketsNew fault action in AWS FIS to inject I/O latency on Amazon EBS volumesAWS has once again announced a change (in this case, changing the email address from which invoices show up), only to walk it back prior to implementation.Use Raspberry Pi 5 as Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes for edge workloadsMalware Protection for S3 Expands File Size and Archive Scanning LimitsAWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container ManagementMigrate from Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet to Claude 4 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 15th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Enforcing organization-wide Amazon S3 bucket-tagging policiesECS Exec is now available in the AWS Management ConsoleAWS Control Tower now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)Introducing AWS CDK Refactor (Preview)Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDEAWS WAF now includes free WAF Vended Logs based on request volumeAWS recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) with Amazon ConnectIntroducing universal installers for AWS CLI v2 on macOS

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 8th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29AWS IAM launches new VPC endpoint condition keys for network perimeter controlsRDS Data API now supports IPv6Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) RegionAWS Resource Explorer is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) RegionProtect your Amazon Route 53 DNS zones and records Efficiently verify Amazon S3 data at scale with compute checksum operationAWS Elemental celebrates 10 years of innovationChoosing the right AWS live streaming solution for your use case

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 2nd, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:How Ancestry optimizes a 100-billion-row Iceberg tableMastering Amazon Q Developer with Rules Bob’s Used Books: Build a .NET Serverless Application on AWS – Part 2: ArchitectureHow Amazon Finance built an AI assistant using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Kendra to support analysts for data discovery and business insights Building Your Open Source Commercial Strategy with AWSHow to optimize Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora database costs/performance with AWS Compute OptimizerGracefully handle failed AWS Lambda events from Amazon DynamoDB StreamsAnnouncing the AWS Billing and Cost Management MCP serverAWS joins the DocumentDB project to build interoperable, open source document database technologyCount Tokens API supported for Anthropic’s Claude models now in Amazon Bedrock

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 25th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool 'a wallet-wrecking tragedySQL injection vulnerability in the AWS Aurora DSQL MCP Server | by Michael Kandelaars | Aug, 2025 | MediumTop AWS chip engineer reportedly defects to ArmCopilot Broke Your Audit Log, but Microsoft Won’t Tell You - Pistachio Blog - Cybersecurity Awareness TrainingAWS blames bug for Kiro pricing glitch that drained developer limits | InfoWorldAmazon Cloud Chief: Replacing Junior Staff With AI Is 'Dumbest' Idea - Business InsiderAWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest ideaHR giant Workday says hackers stole personal data in recent breach | TechCrunchAWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong free senior engineer level code reviews right in your IDECelebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovationVibe code with AWS databases using Vercel v0Enhanced throttling observability in Amazon DynamoDBUnder the hood: how AWS Lambda SnapStart optimizes function startup latencyAWS Security Incident Response introduces integrations with ITSMAmazon Cognito adds terms of use and privacy policy documents support to Managed LoginAWS Billing and Cost Management now provides customizable DashboardsAWS Billing and Cost Management Console adds new recommended actionsAmazon VPC IPAM adds in-console CloudWatch alarm managementhttps://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 18th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:a billion dollars in savings highlights why I'm wrongDemystifying Amazon Bedrock Pricing for a Chatbot AssistantImproving Your Visibility to AWS Sales: A Practical Guide for PartnersAnthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in Amazon Bedrock Expanded Context WindowAmazon EC2 Single GPU P5 instances are now generally available Announcing Extended Support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 3.6CVE-2025-8904 - Issue with Amazon EMR Secret Agent componentAmazon DynamoDB now supports more frequent throughput mode updates from provisioned to on-demand capacity Validate radiology reports using Amazon NovaAmazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)AWS Resource Explorer now Supports Filtering for Multiple ValuesAWS IAM Identity Center introduces support for user background sessions with Amazon SageMaker Studio Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports decreasing your SSD storage capacity AWS Security Incident Response now supports membership coverage for individual AWS organizational unitsUnderstanding AWS Savings Plan Recommendations: Payer vs. Linked Account Views 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 11th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.Links: AWS Cloud Visibility Best PracticesThis Ars articleAWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizensAmazon killing a user’s accountMountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver v2: Accelerated performance and improved resource usage for Kubernetes workloadsStreamlining outbound emails with Amazon SES Mail ManagerAWS Lambda now supports GitHub Actions to simplify function deploymentAnthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 now in Amazon BedrockAmazon CloudWatch introduces organization-wide VPC flow logs enablementUnderstanding and Remediating Cold Starts: An AWS Lambda PerspectiveAmazon SQS increases maximum message payload size to 1 MiBOpenAI open weight models now available on AWS Best practices for analyzing AWS Config recording frequenciesAmazon EKS adds safety control to prevent accidental cluster deletionAWS Console Mobile App now offers access to AWS SupportAmazon EC2 now supports force terminate for EC2 instances Amazon DynamoDB adds support for Console-to-CodeUsing generative AI for building AWS networksSimplify network connectivity using Tailscale with Amazon EKS Hybrid NodesCost tracking multi-tenant model inference on Amazon Bedrock

 AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 4th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Amazon Aurora MySQL database clusters now support up to 256 TiB of storage volume Introducing v2 of Powertools for AWS Lambda (Java)Introducing Extended Support for Amazon ElastiCache version 4 and version 5 for Redis OSSAmazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available AWS Lambda response streaming now supports 200 MB response payloadsHow Zapier runs isolated tasks on AWS Lambda and upgrades functions at scaleAmazon Application Recovery Controller now supports Region switchAnnouncing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6f instances with fractional GPUsAmazon Promotes Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, Unveils 17th Leadership PrincipleAmazon CloudFront introduces new origin response timeout controlsOptimize traffic costs of Amazon MSK consumers on Amazon EKS with rack awarenessAmazon Bedrock now available in the US West (N. California) RegionNew AWS whitepaper: AWS User Guide to Financial Services Regulations and Guidelines in Australia Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds AWS Lambda functions as notification targets for lifecycle hooks

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 28th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Launching Amazon CloudWatch generative AI observability (Preview) Amazon CloudWatch adds IPv6 supportBoost cold-start recommendations with vLLM on AWS Trainium AWS Private CA now supports issuing up to 100 million certificates per CA Amazon Connect announces per-day pricing for external voice connectors Amazon RDS for Db2 adds support for group-based authorization with self-managed Active Directory Manage multi-tenant Amazon Bedrock costs using application inference profilesSimplify serverless development with console to IDE and remote debugging for AWS Lambda | AWS News Blog AWS Generative AI for Developers Professional Certificate Simplify AWS Organization Tag Policies using new wildcard statement  Security Update for Amazon Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code (Version #1.84) Cost Optimization Hub now supports account names in optimization opportunities Year One of Valkey: Open-Source Innovations and ElastiCache version 8.1 for Valkey - go listen to the audio version of this newsletter specifically for this item. AWS Security Incident Response: The customer’s journey to accelerating the incident response lifecycle AWS Service Reference Information now supports actions for last accessed services - Five facts about how the CLOUD Act actually works | AWS Security Blog Bob’s Used Books: Build a .NET Serverless Application on AWS, Part 1: Deployment and Setup Amazon EC2 now supports skipping the operating system shutdown when stopping or terminating instances New whitepaper available: AICPA SOC 2 Compliance Guide on AWS Why 2025 is the Inflection Point for AWS Cloud Migration Beyond IAM access keys: Modern authentication approaches for AWS Introducing SRA Verify – an AWS Security Reference Architecture assessment tool Supercharging Ad Creative with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Nova: How AI is Revolutionizing Content Generation for Advertising & Marketing Use-CasesBuilding resilient multi-tenant systems with Amazon SQS fair queues How Truth For Life transformed its viewer analytics while optimizing costs

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 21st, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon EBS now provides visibility into EBS volume initialization statusThe Amazon S3 console now displays an external access summary for all your bucketsAmazon S3 Tables reduce compaction costs by up to 90%AWS API MCP Server now available AWS Cost Anomaly Detection improves accuracy with model enhancementsAWS Price List API now supports four new Query Filters Introducing AWS AI LeagueAnnouncing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for AWS Price ListAmazon S3 Metadata now supports metadata for all your S3 objects AWS Free Tier update: New customers can get started and explore AWS with up to $200 in creditsIntroducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Securely deploy and operate AI agents at any scale (preview)Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors: First cloud storage with native vector support at scale (preview)Under the hood: Amazon EKS ultra scale clustersProven Practices for Succeeding with a Multicloud StrategyAccenture scales video analysis with Amazon Nova and Amazon Bedrock AgentsComing soon: Exam update and new name for cloud operations certification

 AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 14th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Direct Connect Layer 1 Explained: From Data Centers to Cloud ConnectivityOracle Database@AWS announces general availability, expands networking capabilitiesAmazon Bedrock introduces API keys for streamlined developmentAnnouncing AWS Builder CenterAmazon P6e-GB200 UltraServers now available for the highest GPU performance in EC2Quantifying the Impact of Developer Experience: Amazon’s 15.9% BreakthroughEstablishing a European trust service provider for the AWS European Sovereign CloudUse K8sGPT and Amazon Bedrock for simplified Kubernetes cluster maintenanceEvolve your Amazon DynamoDB table’s data modelIntroducing: Guidance for a media lake on AWS

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 7th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Finch expands support to Ubuntu, streamlining container development across platformsAmazon CloudFront announces support for HTTPS DNS recordsAmazon Q Business launches the ability to customize responsesBuild the highest resilience apps with multi-Region strong consistency in Amazon DynamoDB global tablesLeveling up Amazon RDS with AWS Graviton4: BenchmarksBuild AWS architecture diagrams using Amazon Q CLI and MCPUsing generative AI to help dog owners make smarter health decisionsAWS Certificate Manager now supports exporting public certificatesRemote access to AWS: A guide for hybrid workforcesHow to Use AWS Data Transfer Terminal

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, June 30th, with Corey Quinn. Links:What is AWS Security Hub?Amazon data center complexCode reviews in you IDEAWS Local Zones Features - AWS Last Week in AWS Slack communityAmazon VPC raises default Route Table capacityAnnouncing Intelligent Search for re:Post and re:Post PrivateHow to Set Up Automated Alerts for Newly Purchased AWS Savings PlansIntroducing AWS Lambda native support for Avro and Protobuf formatted Apache Kafka events

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 23rd, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS IAM now enforces MFA for root users across all account typesAWS expands resource control policies (RCPs) support to two additional servicesOne Year EC2 Instance Savings Plans are now available for P5 and P5en instancesAWS Certificate Manager introduces exportable public SSL/TLS certificates to use anywhereVerify internal access to critical AWS resources with new IAM Access Analyzer capabilitiesIntroducing AWS CDK Community MeetingsRapid monitoring of Amazon S3 bucket policy changes in AWS environments1Password’s New Secrets Syncing Integration With AWS | 1Password

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 16, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) regionAmazon S3 Tables now provide storage cost visibility for individual tablesAWS Console Mobile Application adds support for CloudWatch Log InsightsAWS launches public preview of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS)Stream multi-channel audio to Amazon Transcribe using the Web Audio APIAmazon to launch second Secret Cloud Region in 2025CVE-2025-6031 - Insecure device pairing in end-of-life Amazon Cloud CamWhat To Do When You’re Underwater on Your AWS EDPAWS screwed up the What's New at AWS page

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 9th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon EC2 now enables you to delete underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIsAWS Compute Optimizer now supports Aurora I/O-Optimized recommendationsAWS Invoice Summary API is now generally available Optimize Your AWS Spend with New Cost Savings Features in AWS Trusted Advisor Announcing up to 45% price reduction for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances Now open – AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) RegionUpgrade your Amazon DynamoDB global tables to the current version

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 2nd, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon ECS increases container exit reason message to 1024 charactersAmazon GameLift Servers SDKs are now on GitHubAWS Cost Explorer now offers new Cost Comparison featureAWS DataSync simplifies and accelerates cross-cloud data transfersAWS Secrets Manager announces support for cost allocation tags for secretsCloudTrail Lake now supports event enrichment and expanded event sizeCost Optimization Hub now supports Savings Plans and reservations preferencesAmazon Aurora DSQL is now generally availableEnhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP serverOpenSearch UI: Six months in review5 steps for building a VMware transition strategy for public sector customersCloud Repatriation is Getting ComplicatedSponsorThe Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/Join us for Office Hours!https://www.duckbillgroup.com/officehours/