AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 26th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• AWS on Customer Choice & Multicloud
• AWS Adds Policy Details to Access Denied Errors
• Amazon ECR Cross-Repository Layer Sharing
• Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments (<5s downtime)
• S3 Storage Lens Now in GovCloud (US)
• Enterprise-Scale Migration to Apache Iceberg
• Kafka-Based Oracle LOB Migration to AWS
• Aurora PostgreSQL Shared Plan Cache

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 20th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Unanchored ACCOUNT_ID webhook filters for CodeBuild
• Amazon EBS now supports up to four Elastic Volumes modifications in 24 hours
• AWS Databases are now available on v0 by Vercel
• AWS Lambda announces cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams
• Enhanced Transactions view now available in AWS Billing Console
• AWS Data Exports adds granular operation visibility for Amazon Bedrock model usage
• Amazon EC2 X8i instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors are generally available
• Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
• AWS Organizations now supports upgrade rollout policy for Aurora and RDS
• Provision Oracle Database@AWS stack using AWS CloudFormation
• CLI v1 Maintenance Mode Announcement
• CVE-2026-0830: Command Injection in Kiro GitLab Merge Request Helper

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 12th, with Corey Quinn.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 22, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Automate java performance troubleshooting with AI-Powered thread dump analysis on Amazon ECS and EKS
• Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructure
• Optimize WordPress performance on Amazon EKS with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
• AWS reduces publishing time for Carbon Footprint Data to 21 days or Less
• AWS Payment Cryptography reduces API pricing by up to 63% and introduces tiered key pricing
• Key Commitment Issues in S3 Encryption Clients
• Coursera and AWS survey reveals how technology leaders navigate cloud and AI transformation
• Automated extraction of compressed files on Amazon S3 using AWS Batch and Amazon ECS
• Cryptomining campaign targeting Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS

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

Links:

• Exploring the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference Framework
• Now generally available: Amazon EC2 C8gb instances
• Amazon CloudWatch SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocols
• Building national foundation models
• New report: Cloud “fundamental” for European national security and defense
• AI Increased Productivity? Consider Hiring More Developers!
• IAM Policy Autopilot: An open-source tool that brings IAM policy expertise to builders and AI coding assistants
• AWS and Google Cloud collaborate to simplify multicloud networking
• Exploring Optimize CPU feature on Amazon RDS for SQL Server
• Prometheus MCP Server: AI-Driven Monitoring Intelligence for AWS Users

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 8th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Introducing Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver for secure anycast DNS resolution (preview)
• Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility
• AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud
• Introducing AWS Transform custom: Crush tech debt with AI-powered code modernization
• Amazon CloudWatch introduces unified data management and analytics for operations, security, and compliance
• Amazon EC2 P6e-GB300 UltraServers accelerated by NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 are now generally available
• Introducing AWS AI Factories
• Introducing AWS DevOps Agent (preview), frontier agent for operational excellence
• Amazon S3 Storage Lens adds performance metrics, support for billions of prefixes, and export to S3 Tables
• Build multi-step applications and AI workflows with AWS Lambda durable functions
• Amazon S3 increases the maximum object size to 50 TB
• Amazon S3 Tables now offer the Intelligent-Tiering storage class
• China-nexus cyber threat groups rapidly exploit React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182)
• Introducing Database Savings Plans for AWS Databases

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 1st, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Protect sensitive data with dynamic data masking for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
• Amazon CloudFront announces support for mutual TLS authentication
• Amazon EC2 announces interruptible Capacity Reservations
• Introducing guidelines for network scanning
• Practical implementation considerations to close the AI value gap
• Everything you don’t need to know about Amazon Aurora DSQL: Part 4 – DSQL components
• Simplify data integration using zero-ETL from self-managed databases to Amazon Redshift
• Automatic quota management is now AWS Service Quotas adds support for automatic quota management
• Announcing Amazon Route 53 Accelerated Recovery for managing public DNS records
• Announcing Unused NAT Gateway Recommendations in AWS Compute Optimizer
• Amazon EKS introduces Provisioned Control Plane
• AWS Finally Lets You Find Your Idle NAT Gateways

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 24th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Announcing agreement EventBridge notifications for AWS Marketplace
• Network Load Balancers now support Weighted Target Groups
• AWS NAT Gateway now supports regional availability
• AWS Secrets Manager announces managed external secrets
• Accelerate infrastructure development with AWS CloudFormation intelligent authoring in IDEs
• AWS Cost Optimization Hub introduces Cost Efficiency metric to measure and track cloud cost efficiency
• AWS Lambda announces new tenant isolation mode to simplify building tenant-aware applications
• Introducing 18-Month Forecasting and Explainable AI Insights in AWS Cost Explorer
• Simplified developer access to AWS with ‘aws login
• Amazon DynamoDB now supports multi-attribute composite keys in global secondary indexes
• Simplify access to external services using AWS IAM Outbound Identity Federation
• Improve API discoverability with the new Amazon API Gateway Portal
• AWS Step Functions enhances Local Testing with TestState API
• Amazon CloudFront announces 3 new CloudFront Functions capabilities
• Recycle Bin adds support for Amazon EBS Volumes
• Announcing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 8.0
• AWS Lambda adds support for Rust
• Introducing Amazon MWAA Serverless
• Introducing flat-rate pricing plans with no overages
• New Amazon Bedrock service tiers help you match AI workload performance with cost
• Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs are now available
• Amazon ECR introduces archive storage class for rarely accessed container images
• New AWS Billing Transfer for centrally managing AWS billing and costs across multiple organizations