AWS Morning Brief tmpfs, Cost Cuts, and Other ECS Bedtime Stories
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Jan 12, 2026 Corey Quinn dives into the latest AWS updates, starting with the ease of CloudTrail Lake imports into CloudWatch while cautioning about costs. He humorously reflects on the new tmpfs mounts for ECS on Fargate. Spot interruption metrics for EC2 are introduced, adding valuable tracking. Exciting cost cuts come from EMR Serverless removing storage provisioning. He also highlights the swift launch of the .NET 10 runtime for Lambda and shares insights on RDS CPU optimization, particularly for SQL Server.
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Duckbill Plug For Contract Renewals
- Corey Quinn plugs Duckbill and offers help with cloud contract renewals.
- He frames the offer as guidance for people unsure about renewal timing and strategy.
Consolidate Logs With Cost Awareness
- Use CloudTrail Lake to CloudWatch import to consolidate logs when you need unified visibility across services.
- Check CloudWatch custom logs pricing first to avoid unexpected costs.
TmpFS Arrives For Fargate
- ECS added tmpfs support for Fargate and managed instances, finally matching older Docker features.
- This is useful for ephemeral data that doesn't need persistence across tasks or invoices.