AWS Morning Brief Monetize the Fire, Sell the Extinguisher
Nov 10, 2025
Discover how AWS PrivateLink now enables cross-region service support and explore its compliance perks. Corey dives into AWS's partnership with OpenAI and critiques an AI playground aimed at educators. Learn about a new whitepaper discussing AI security challenges and insights on cost optimization for AWS users. The episode also covers the evolution of Amazon Connect, highlighting its billion-dollar revenue milestone and the challenges facing the Linux WorkSpaces client due to token vulnerabilities.
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Isolate Coding Agents In Your VPC
- Run coding agents in isolated sandboxes inside your VPC to avoid data leaks and bad actions.
- Use private models and controlled workflows to limit agents' access and reduce accidental data exposure.
Cross-Region PrivateLink Is Useful — Costly
- Cross-region PrivateLink solves compliance needs but adds PrivateLink and cross-region data transfer fees.
- The feature is useful yet overdue, shifting costs to customers and complicating billing.
AWS Powers OpenAI's Massive GPU Needs
- AWS partnered to power OpenAI workloads, highlighting gigantic GPU and energy demand behind large models.
- The deal reads as monetizing the rapid infrastructure needs of massive AI model training and inference.