AWS Morning Brief

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 EKSAmazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructureOptimize WordPress performance on Amazon EKS with Amazon FSx for OpenZFSAWS reduces publishing time for Carbon Footprint Data to 21 days or LessAWS Payment Cryptography reduces API pricing by up to 63% and introduces tiered key pricingKey Commitment Issues in S3 Encryption ClientsCoursera and AWS survey reveals how technology leaders navigate cloud and AI transformationAutomated extraction of compressed files on Amazon S3 using AWS Batch and Amazon ECSCryptomining 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 FrameworkNow generally available: Amazon EC2 C8gb instancesAmazon CloudWatch SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocolsBuilding national foundation modelsNew report: Cloud “fundamental” for European national security and defenseAI Increased Productivity? Consider Hiring More Developers!IAM Policy Autopilot: An open-source tool that brings IAM policy expertise to builders and AI coding assistantsAWS and Google Cloud collaborate to simplify multicloud networkingExploring Optimize CPU feature on Amazon RDS for SQL ServerPrometheus MCP Server: AI-Driven Monitoring Intelligence for AWS Users

Corey Quinn dives into Amazon's Route 53 Global Resolver, grumbling about naming woes. He expresses skepticism about Lambda Managed Instances and the complexities they introduce. The preview of AWS InterConnect raises questions on value versus pricing. CloudWatch's new unified features earn praise but come with a confusing activation process. Exciting news includes S3's object size increase to 50 TB and enhancements to S3 Storage Lens. Corey warns of the React2Shell vulnerability and celebrates the long-awaited introduction of Database Savings Plans.

This week, fascinating topics include dynamic data masking for Aurora PostgreSQL, enhancing security without data duplication. CloudFront introduces mutual TLS support for edge-level authentication, ideal for B2B and IoT applications. There's a humorous take on EC2’s interruptible capacity reservations, raising questions about their function. Corey critiques AWS's approach to closing the AI value gap and dissects zero-ETL claims for Amazon Redshift. The discussion also highlights Route 53’s enhanced recovery and praises Compute Optimizer's recommendations for idle NAT gateways.

Join Corey Quinn as he dives into the latest AWS updates, including the launch of Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 and the exciting official support for Rust in AWS Lambda. Discover how MWAA Serverless and flat-rate CloudFront plans work, along with new EC2 instances featuring NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs. He also highlights improvements to Network Load Balancers and the regional availability of NAT Gateway, making tech management smoother. Plus, learn about the innovative billing transfer feature for centralized cost control.

This week dives into exciting AWS updates, highlighting custom domain names for VPC Lattice resources and frustrations with the rollout. Lambda now supports IPv6 to cut costs, while Control Tower eases account governance with automatic enrollment. Amazon Braket enhances notebooks with CUDA-Q support for quantum simulations. Plus, AWS introduces intelligent rebalancing in MSK Express for faster operations. Keyspaces adds logged batches for atomic operations, and EKS receives affirmation for its zero operator access design.

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.

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.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 27th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Streamline in-place application upgrades with Amazon VPC LatticeBuild a proactive AI cost management system for Amazon Bedrock – Part 2 -Overview and best practices of multithreaded replication in Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB, and Amazon Aurora MySQL AWS announces Nitro Enclaves are now available in all AWS RegionsAmazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports bundled multi-check canaries Amazon U7i instances now available in Europe (London) RegionAmazon Connect now supports automated follow-up evaluations triggered by initial evaluation resultsHow the Wildlife Conservation Society uses AWS to accelerate coral reef monitoring worldwideAmazon MQ is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region Amazon CloudWatch introduces interactive incident reportingAWS Secret-West Region is now availableCharting the life of an Amazon CloudFront request

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 20th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Location Service Introduces New Map Styling Features for Enhanced CustomizationAWS Resource Explorer launches immediate resource discovery within a Region AWS SAM CLI adds Finch support, expanding local development tool options for serverless applicationsSimplified model access in Amazon BedrockAmazon EC2 now supports CPU options optimization for license-included instancesIntroducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones: Create instant copies of your EBS volumesOptimizing document AI and structured outputs by fine-tuning Amazon Nova Models and on-demand inferenceIntroducing URL and host header rewrite with AWS Application Load BalancersNew Amazon EKS Auto Mode features for enhanced security, network control, and performanceMonitor, analyze, and manage capacity usage from a single interface with Amazon EC2 Capacity ManagerPerformance optimization strategies for MySQL on Amazon RDSAWS re:Invent 2025: Reimagining customer experience with AmazonAWS Deprecates Two Dozen Services (Most of Which You’ve Never Heard Of)A FinOps Guide to Comparing Containers and Serverless Functions for ComputeAnnouncing vector search for Amazon ElastiCacheAWS Post-Event Summaries