AWS Morning Brief AWS's Snaky Region
8 snips
Jun 9, 2025 In this week's discussion, exciting updates from AWS take center stage. Learn about the new capability to delete EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs. Discover enhancements to the Aurora I.O. recommendations and the launch of the AWS Invoice Summary API. There's also news about significant price reductions for GPU-accelerated instances. Plus, the introduction of the new Asia Pacific Taipei region is sure to spark interest among cloud enthusiasts!
AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
EC2 Lets You Delete EBS Snapshots
- Amazon EC2 now allows deletion of underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs, finally simplifying cleanup.
- This feature addresses a long-standing inconvenience for AWS users managing AMIs and snapshots.
Compute Optimizer Supports Aurora I/O
- AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Aurora I/O-Optimized recommendations, although users must react to changing workload access patterns.
- This change reflects a necessary customer-facing adaptation due to RDS team's structure.
AWS Invoice Summary API Released
- The AWS Invoice Summary API is now generally available, enabling programmatic access to billing data.
- This move challenges the reliance on Microsoft Excel for billing analysis among AWS users.