AWS Morning Brief APIs to Tell You What You Already Paid For
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Nov 3, 2025 Explore the latest AWS innovations, like new CloudWatch metrics that pinpoint EC2 I/O limits. Discover how France Télévisions gears up for the Olympics using AWS Countdown Premium. Dive into Kinesis Data Streams, which now supports significantly larger record sizes, and find out about DocumentDB's upgraded query planner. Learn about the migration from X-Ray SDKs to OpenTelemetry, and the introduction of conditional writes in S3. Plus, see how Kubernetes labels can streamline cost allocation in EKS.
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AI Frameworks Rebrand Old Management Advice
- Management consulting frameworks are often repackaged as 'AI frameworks' without adding real novelty.
- Corey Quinn mocks buzzword-heavy frameworks that boil down to basic planning and measurement.
CloudWatch Exposes Hidden EC2 I/O Ceilings
- New CloudWatch metrics reveal when EC2 instance I/O limits—not EBS—are the bottleneck.
- This helps explain why teams over-provision EBS when the instance is actually throttling I/O.
France Télévisions Uses AWS Countdown Premium
- France Télévisions used AWS Countdown Premium to prepare for the 2024 Olympics broadcast.
- Corey quips they turned Olympic reliability into a paid premium service.