AWS Morning Brief

By: Corey Quinn
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  • 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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Episodes
  • The AWS Chatbot Disappointment
    Feb 17 2025

    AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 17, with Corey Quinn.

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    • Amazon DynamoDB now supports auto-approval of quota adjustments
    • Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now adds full snapshot size information in Console and API
    • Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250103
    • Amazon Redshift Serverless announces reduction in IP Address Requirements to 3 per Subnet
    • AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Adobe After Effects in Service-Managed Fleets
    • AWS Network Load Balancer now supports removing availability zones
    • AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints now generally available
    • Harness Amazon Bedrock Agents to Manage SAP Instances
    • Timestamp writes for write hedging in Amazon DynamoDB
    • Updating AWS SDK defaults – AWS STS service endpoint and Retry Strategy
    • Learning AWS best practices from Amazon Q in the Console
    • Automating Cost Optimization Governance with AWS Config
    • Amazon Q Developer in chat applications rename - Summary of changes - AWS Chatbot
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    7 mins
  • CloudFormation Salvation At Last
    Feb 10 2025

    AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 10, with Corey Quinn.

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    • Amazon EBS now supports additional resource-level permissions for creating EBS volumes from snapshots
    • Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector adds support for cross-account ingestion
    • Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in 1 additional region
    • Amazon Q Developer now troubleshoots AWS Console errors in all AWS Commercial regions
    • Amazon Q Developer introduces a new, simplified setup experience for Pro tier subscriptions
    • AWS IAM Identity Center now offers improved error messages and AWS CloudTrail logging for provisioning issues
    • AWS Step Functions now supports 100,000 state machines and activities per AWS account
    • Cost Optimization Hub supports more EC2 Auto Scaling group recommendations
    • Announcing the general availability of AWS Database Migration Service Serverless support for files with an S3 source endpoint
    • AI-Powered Football Match Analysis: SAP Sports One on AWS
    • Introducing AWS CloudFormation Stack Refactoring
    • AWS Tightens the Reins: New AWS SaaS Marketplace Rules Will Impact Your Commitments
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    5 mins
  • What the Hell is a Zone Group?
    Feb 3 2025

    AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 3, with Corey Quinn.

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    • Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region
    • Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.32
    • Amazon S3 Metadata is now generally available
    • Amazon Timestream for InfluxDb now supports Storage Scaling
    • AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python 3.13 on Amazon Linux 2023
    • AWS Health now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
    • Announcing AWS Managed Notifications in the AWS Console Mobile App
    • Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Casablanca
    • AWS now supports Zone Groups for Availability Zones
    • Announcing the AWS CDK Glue L2 Construct
    • Deploy DeepSeek-R1 Distilled Llama models in Amazon Bedrock
    • Announcing upcoming changes to the AWS Security Token Service global endpoint
    • Design patterns for multi-tenant access control on Amazon S3
    • Amazon Nimble Studio Closed to New Customers
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    7 mins

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I'm honestly surprised they allow this here.

All the AWS info you really need, surprisingly hard to find in Audible... coincidence or elastic search "accident"... you decide.

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