AWS Morning Brief
The latest in AWS news, sprinkled with snark. Posts about AWS come out over sixty times a day. We filter through it all to find the hidden gems, the community contributions--the stuff worth hearing about! Then we summarize it with snark and share it with you--minus the nonsense.
Latest episodes
Aug 19, 2024 • 4min
AWS Prime Day Cost ~$135 million
AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 19th with Mike Julian. Links:How AWS powered Prime Day 2024 for record-breaking salesNew capabilities for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations: Split, Move, and Modify additional attributesAmazon QuickSight now includes nested filtersAnnouncing Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class support on Amazon EMRAmazon Verified Permissions improves support for OIDC identity providersAWS announces support for Cost Allocation Tags on AWS Transit GatewayAnnouncing Karpenter 1.0Visualize enterprise IP address management and planning with CIDR map
Aug 12, 2024 • 4min
A sneaky-sneaky service “launch”
AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 12th with Mike Julian. Links:Introducing AWS End User MessagingAmazon EFS now supports up to 30 GiB/s (a 50% increase) of read throughputAmazon RDS for Db2 supports loading data from Amazon S3AWS announces private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnetsAnnouncing delegated administrator for Cost Optimization HubOpenSearch optimized instance (OR1) is game changing for indexing performance and cost
Aug 5, 2024 • 5min
Matt Garman, The Reaper of Services
AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 5th with Mike Julian. Links:Introducing AWS End User MessagingAWS Graviton-based EC2 instances now support hibernationNew Amazon CloudWatch dimensions for Amazon EC2 On Demand Capacity ReservationsAWS and Multicloud: Existing capabilities & continued enhancementsDeliver Amazon CloudWatch logs to Amazon OpenSearch ServerlessCost Optimizer for Amazon WorkSpaces 2.7 releasedJeff Barr, Chief Evangelist at AWS, confirms service deprecations via Twitter
Jul 29, 2024 • 4min
Amazon Basics Corey Quinn
AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 29th, with Mike Julian.Links:Amazon VPC IPAM now supports BYOIP for IPs registered with any Internet RegistryAWS Cost Categories now supports “Billing Entity” dimension Enhance database performance with Amazon RDS dedicated log volumesQLDB deprecation--more on the way?
Jul 22, 2024 • 4min
I'm Gone Like QLDB
AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 22nd, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports logging of all events in AWS CloudTrailAWS Cloud Control API now supports IPv6AWS Private CA now supports ARM architecture in KubernetesHow Volkswagen streamlined access to data across multiple data lakes using Amazon DataZone – Part 1Migrate an Amazon QLDB Ledger to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
Jul 15, 2024 • 4min
AWS's Degenerative AI Obsession
AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 15th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon API Gateway WebSocket APIs now available in 7 additional AWS RegionsAmazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 now generally availableAnnouncing the next generation of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systemsAnnouncing AWS App Studio previewAWS Lambda introduces new controls to make it easier to search, filter, and aggregate Lambda function logsAWS recognized as a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence PlatformsIntroducing dual-stack without public IPv4 Application Load BalancerAmazon CEO Andy Jassy explains Leadership Principles: Video & podcast
Jul 8, 2024 • 4min
Glacial APIs
AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 8th, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)AWS Control Tower introduces an API to discover landing zone operationsAWS Direct Connect announces native 400 Gbps Dedicated Connections at select locationsNew MAP Incentives to Accelerate Migration and ModernizationManaging the history of the NFLAnnouncing initial services available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, backed by the full power of AWSHow The New York Stock Exchange built its real-time market data platform on AWS
Jul 1, 2024 • 4min
Amazon Kindle Fire Steven
AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, July 1st, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon DocumentDB announces IAM database authenticationAmazon Redshift Query Editor V2 now supports 100MB file uploadsAmazon Time Sync Service expands microsecond-accurate time to 27 EC2 instance typesAnnouncing Amazon WorkSpaces Pools, a new feature of Amazon WorkSpacesAWS CodeBuild supports Arm-based workloads using AWS Graviton3Optimizing Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) for speed and scaleTen Ways to Improve Your AWS Operations
Jun 24, 2024 • 3min
RDS Hates Its Customers, Financially Speaking
AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, June 24th, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon CloudWatch announces AI-Powered natural language query generationAWS Compute Optimizer supports rightsizing recommendations for Amazon RDS MySQL and RDS PostgreSQLAWS CloudFormation Linter (cfn-lint) v1
Jun 17, 2024 • 4min
AI Generated Quotes About GenAI
AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, June 17th, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS CloudTrail Lake announces AI-powered natural language query generation (preview)Detect malware in new object uploads to Amazon S3 with Amazon GuardDuty AWS adds passkey multi-factor authentication (MFA) for root and IAM usersIn the Works – AWS Region in TaiwanOptimize storage costs in Amazon OpenSearch Service using Zstandard compressionAWS debuts AI certifications and courses for cloud jobsAWS’s head of security shares 7 reasons why security will always be Amazon’s top priority
