AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 11, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon CloudFront no longer charges for requests blocked by AWS WAFAmazon OpenSearch Service announces Extended Support for engine versionsConfigure Route53 CIDR blocks rules based on Internet Monitor suggestionsAnnouncing an improved self-guided experience for AWS Partner CentralAWS introduces service versioning and deployment history for Amazon ECS servicesReduce your Microsoft licensing costs by upgrading to 4th...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 4, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon CloudWatch now monitors EBS volumes exceeding provisioned performanceAmazon Q Developer announces support for inline chat to streamline the developer experienceAmazon Route 53 announces HTTPS, SSHFP, SVCB, and TLSA DNS resource record supportAmazon Virtual Private Cloud launches new security group sharing featuresAWS now accepts partial card paymentsAnnouncing AWS Amplify integration with Amazon S3 for static...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 28, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon Aurora launches Global Database writer endpointAmazon Connect now offers screen sharingAmazon EKS endpoints now support connectivity over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)AWS IAM Identity Center simplifies calls to AWS services with single identity contextEC2 Image Builder now supports building and testing macOS imagesIntroducing an enhanced in-console editing experience for AWS Lambda

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 21, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon CloudFront launches support for JA4 fingerprintingAmazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now supports live migration-based host maintenanceAmazon EFS now supports up to 60 GiB/s (a 2x increase) of read throughputAnnouncing Amazon Q in AWS Supply ChainAmazon S3 adds new Region and bucket name filtering for the ListBuckets APIAssign billing of your shared Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity ReservationsAWS Resource Explorer introduces...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 15, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for ValkeyAmazon WorkSpaces now supports file transfer between WorkSpaces sessions and local devicesAWS Application Composer is now AWS Infrastructure ComposerAWS CodePipeline introduces new general purpose compute actionAWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops between Lambda and Amazon S3Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally availableHow...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 7, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS CloudShell extends most recent capabilities to all commercial RegionsAmazon Aurora Serverless v2 now supports up to 256 ACUsAmazon S3 adds Service Quotas support for S3 general purpose bucketsAWS announces Reserved Nodes flexibility for Amazon ElastiCacheDuckbill Guide to AWS Reserved InstancesDeprecation of Lake Formation’s Governed Tables FeatureAnnouncing AWS Neuron Helm ChartLeverage IAM Roles for email sending via...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 30, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports RDS Data APIIntroducing Amazon EC2 C8g and M8g InstancesAmazon EC2 Instance Connect now supports IPv6Amazon SNS now delivers SMS text messages via AWS End User MessagingAWS CloudFormation Git sync now supports pull request workflows to review your stack changesAWS CloudTrail launches network activity events for VPC endpoints (preview)AWS Serverless Application Repository now supports AWS...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 23, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS Transfer Family increases throughput and file sizes supported by SFTP connectors AWS WAF Bot Control Managed Rule expands bot detection capabilities AWS named as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS)Announcing General Availability of the AWS SDK for Swift Reinventing the Amazon Q Developer agent for software development Support for AWS DeepComposer ending soon Unlock AWS Cost...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 16, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon EC2 P5e instances are generally available via EC2 Capacity BlocksAnnouncing Storage Browser for Amazon S3 for your web applications (alpha release)Building a privacy preserving chatbot with Amazon BedrockFaster development with Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Q DeveloperLinux Support Updates for AWS CLI v2Best prompting practices for using Meta Llama 3 with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Build a RAG-based QnA application...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 9th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Organizational Units in AWS Control Tower can now contain up to 1,000 accountsAmazon SES announces enhanced onboarding with adaptive setup wizard and Virtual Deliverability ManagerAWS Glue now provides job queuing AWS Network Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeoutAWS named as a Leader in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code AssistantsAWS to highlight generative AI, cloud advancements at IBC 2024

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 3rd, with Mike Julian.  Links: Amazon Braket adds support for Rigetti's 84-Qubit Ankaa™-2 system, our largest gate-based superconducting deviceAnnouncing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instancesAmazon EC2 status checks now support reachability health of attached EBS volumesAmazon EMR support prioritized and capacity-optimized-prioritized allocation strategies for EC2 instancesAmazon OpenSearch Service now supports Graviton3 (C7g, M7g, R7g,...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 19th with Mike Julian.  Links: How AWS powered Prime Day 2024 for record-breaking salesNew capabilities for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations: Split, Move, and Modify additional attributesAmazon QuickSight now includes nested filtersAnnouncing Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class support on Amazon EMRAmazon Verified Permissions improves support for OIDC identity providersAWS announces support for Cost Allocation Tags on AWS...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 12th with Mike Julian.  Links: Introducing AWS End User MessagingAmazon EFS now supports up to 30 GiB/s (a 50% increase) of read throughputAmazon RDS for Db2 supports loading data from Amazon S3AWS announces private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnetsAnnouncing delegated administrator for Cost Optimization HubOpenSearch optimized instance (OR1) is game changing for indexing performance and cost

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 5th with Mike Julian.  Links: Introducing AWS End User MessagingAWS Graviton-based EC2 instances now support hibernationNew Amazon CloudWatch dimensions for Amazon EC2 On Demand Capacity ReservationsAWS and Multicloud: Existing capabilities & continued enhancementsDeliver Amazon CloudWatch logs to Amazon OpenSearch ServerlessCost Optimizer for Amazon WorkSpaces 2.7 releasedJeff Barr, Chief Evangelist at AWS, confirms service deprecations...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 29th, with Mike Julian. Links: Amazon VPC IPAM now supports BYOIP for IPs registered with any Internet RegistryAWS Cost Categories now supports “Billing Entity” dimension Enhance database performance with Amazon RDS dedicated log volumesQLDB deprecation--more on the way?

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 22nd, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports logging of all events in AWS CloudTrailAWS Cloud Control API now supports IPv6AWS Private CA now supports ARM architecture in KubernetesHow Volkswagen streamlined access to data across multiple data lakes using Amazon DataZone – Part 1Migrate an Amazon QLDB Ledger to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 15th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon API Gateway WebSocket APIs now available in 7 additional AWS RegionsAmazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 now generally availableAnnouncing the next generation of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systemsAnnouncing AWS App Studio previewAWS Lambda introduces new controls to make it easier to search, filter, and aggregate Lambda function logsAWS recognized as a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner Magic...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 8th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)AWS Control Tower introduces an API to discover landing zone operationsAWS Direct Connect announces native 400 Gbps Dedicated Connections at select locationsNew MAP Incentives to Accelerate Migration and ModernizationManaging the history of the NFLAnnouncing initial services available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, backed by the full power of AWSHow...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 1st, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon DocumentDB announces IAM database authenticationAmazon Redshift Query Editor V2 now supports 100MB file uploadsAmazon Time Sync Service expands microsecond-accurate time to 27 EC2 instance typesAnnouncing Amazon WorkSpaces Pools, a new feature of Amazon WorkSpacesAWS CodeBuild supports Arm-based workloads using AWS Graviton3Optimizing Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) for speed and scaleTen Ways to Improve...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, June 24th, 2024, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon CloudWatch announces AI-Powered natural language query generationAWS Compute Optimizer supports rightsizing recommendations for Amazon RDS MySQL and RDS PostgreSQLAWS CloudFormation Linter (cfn-lint) v1

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, June 17th, 2024, with Corey Quinn.  Links: AWS CloudTrail Lake announces AI-powered natural language query generation (preview)Detect malware in new object uploads to Amazon S3 with Amazon GuardDuty AWS adds passkey multi-factor authentication (MFA) for root and IAM usersIn the Works – AWS Region in TaiwanOptimize storage costs in Amazon OpenSearch Service using Zstandard compressionAWS debuts AI certifications and courses for cloud jobsAWS’s head of...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, June 10th, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Introducing Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i InstancesAmazon API Gateway integration timeout limit increase beyond 29 secondsAmazon CloudWatch GetMetricData API now supports AWS CloudTrail data event loggingAmazon CloudWatch Logs announces Live Tail streaming CLI supportAmazon CodeCatalyst now supports GitHub Cloud source code with blueprintsAmazon EC2 instance type finder capability is generally available in AWS...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 3rd, 2024, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon Bedrock announces new Converse API Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces up to 10x faster startup timeAWS Launches Console-based Bulk Policy Migration for Billing and Cost Management Console AccessLet us manage your relational database!Your AI is Only as Good as Your Data The art of possible: Three themes from RSA Conference 202410 things to know about AWS CEO Matt Garman

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 28th, 2024, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Introducing Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instancesAmazon RDS for Db2 introduces hourly licensing from IBM through AWS MarketplaceAmazon VPC Lattice now supports TLS PassthroughAWS CloudFormation streamlines deployment troubleshooting with AWS CloudTrail integrationAWS CloudFormation accelerates dev-test cycle with a new parameter for DeleteStack APIAWS Lambda console now supports sharing test events between developers in...