• Steady Improvements
    Oct 28 2024

    AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 28, with Corey Quinn.

    Links:

    • Amazon Aurora launches Global Database writer endpoint
    • Amazon Connect now offers screen sharing
    • Amazon EKS endpoints now support connectivity over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
    • AWS IAM Identity Center simplifies calls to AWS services with single identity context
    • EC2 Image Builder now supports building and testing macOS images
    • Introducing an enhanced in-console editing experience for AWS Lambda
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    3 mins
  • A Bunch of Great Quality of Life Improvements
    Oct 21 2024

    AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 21, with Corey Quinn.

    Links:

    • Amazon CloudFront launches support for JA4 fingerprinting
    • Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now supports live migration-based host maintenance
    • Amazon EFS now supports up to 60 GiB/s (a 2x increase) of read throughput
    • Announcing Amazon Q in AWS Supply Chain
    • Amazon S3 adds new Region and bucket name filtering for the ListBuckets API
    • Assign billing of your shared Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
    • AWS Resource Explorer introduces new API to list resource inventory
    • AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors now provide real-time status of file transfer operations
    • Finch expands support to Linux, streamlining container development across platforms
    • Ubuntu Pro for EC2 Spot Instances
    • Innovating with AI in Regulated Industries
    • Improve public speaking skills using a generative AI-based virtual assistant with Amazon Bedrock


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    5 mins
  • Amazon Basics Former2, Powered By AI
    Oct 15 2024

    AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 15, with Corey Quinn.

    Links:

    • Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey
    • Amazon WorkSpaces now supports file transfer between WorkSpaces sessions and local devices
    • AWS Application Composer is now AWS Infrastructure Composer
    • AWS CodePipeline introduces new general purpose compute action
    • AWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops between Lambda and Amazon S3
    • Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally available
    • How to identify inactive users of Amazon Q Developer
    • Transitioning off Amazon Lookout for Metrics
    • Sign-in to AWS Console Mobile Application with an AWS Access Portal or third-party IdP URL
    • How AWS uses active defense to help protect customers from security threats
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    4 mins
  • Attend My re:Invent Talk!
    Oct 7 2024

    AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 7, with Corey Quinn.

    Links:

    • AWS CloudShell extends most recent capabilities to all commercial Regions
    • Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 now supports up to 256 ACUs
    • Amazon S3 adds Service Quotas support for S3 general purpose buckets
    • AWS announces Reserved Nodes flexibility for Amazon ElastiCache
    • Duckbill Guide to AWS Reserved Instances
    • Deprecation of Lake Formation’s Governed Tables Feature
    • Announcing AWS Neuron Helm Chart
    • Leverage IAM Roles for email sending via SES from EC2 and eliminate a common credential risk
    • Issue with NVIDIA Container Toolkit (CVE-2024-0132, CVE-2024-0133)
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    4 mins
  • The HPC Team Starts a War
    Sep 30 2024

    AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 30, with Corey Quinn.

    Links:

    • Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports RDS Data API
    • Introducing Amazon EC2 C8g and M8g Instances
    • Amazon EC2 Instance Connect now supports IPv6
    • Amazon SNS now delivers SMS text messages via AWS End User Messaging
    • AWS CloudFormation Git sync now supports pull request workflows to review your stack changes
    • AWS CloudTrail launches network activity events for VPC endpoints (preview)
    • AWS Serverless Application Repository now supports AWS PrivateLink
    • AWS announces general availability for Security Group Referencing on AWS Transit Gateway
    • Generative AI Cost Optimization Strategies
    • Customizing your HPC environment: building AMIs for AWS Parallel Computing Service
    • Making traffic lights more efficient with Amazon Rekognition
    • Whose contract is it anyway? How AWS Marketplace works
    • Switch your file share access from Amazon FSx File Gateway to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server


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    5 mins
  • FTP is Eternal at Enterprises
    Sep 23 2024

    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 and Usage insights with generative AI powered by Amazon Bedrock
    • AWS Welcomes the OpenSearch Software Foundation
    • The Rise of Chatbots: Revolutionizing Customer Engagement


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    4 mins
  • The Trouble With Coding Assistant Demos
    Sep 16 2024

    AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 16, with Corey Quinn.

    Links:

    • Amazon EC2 P5e instances are generally available via EC2 Capacity Blocks
    • Announcing Storage Browser for Amazon S3 for your web applications (alpha release)
    • Building a privacy preserving chatbot with Amazon Bedrock
    • Faster development with Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Q Developer
    • Linux Support Updates for AWS CLI v2
    • Best prompting practices for using Meta Llama 3 with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
    • Build a RAG-based QnA application using Llama3 models from SageMaker JumpStart
    • Optimizing Amazon S3 data transfers over Direct Connect
    • New whitepaper available: Building security from the ground up with Secure by Design
    • Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
    • Opt out from all supported AWS AI services
    • Oracle and Amazon Web Services Announce Strategic Partnership


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    6 mins
  • I’m back!
    Sep 9 2024

    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 accounts
    • Amazon SES announces enhanced onboarding with adaptive setup wizard and Virtual Deliverability Manager
    • AWS Glue now provides job queuing
    • AWS Network Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout
    • AWS named as a Leader in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants
    • AWS to highlight generative AI, cloud advancements at IBC 2024
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    4 mins