AWS Morning Brief

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 15, with Corey Quinn. Links:Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for ValkeyAmazon WorkSpaces now supports file transfer between WorkSpaces sessions and local devicesAWS Application Composer is now AWS Infrastructure ComposerAWS CodePipeline introduces new general purpose compute actionAWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops between Lambda and Amazon S3Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally availableHow to identify inactive users of Amazon Q DeveloperTransitioning off Amazon Lookout for MetricsSign-in to AWS Console Mobile Application with an AWS Access Portal or third-party IdP URLHow AWS uses active defense to help protect customers from security threats

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 7, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS CloudShell extends most recent capabilities to all commercial RegionsAmazon Aurora Serverless v2 now supports up to 256 ACUsAmazon S3 adds Service Quotas support for S3 general purpose bucketsAWS announces Reserved Nodes flexibility for Amazon ElastiCacheDuckbill Guide to AWS Reserved InstancesDeprecation of Lake Formation’s Governed Tables FeatureAnnouncing AWS Neuron Helm ChartLeverage IAM Roles for email sending via SES from EC2 and eliminate a common credential riskIssue with NVIDIA Container Toolkit (CVE-2024-0132, CVE-2024-0133)

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 30, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports RDS Data APIIntroducing Amazon EC2 C8g and M8g InstancesAmazon EC2 Instance Connect now supports IPv6Amazon SNS now delivers SMS text messages via AWS End User MessagingAWS CloudFormation Git sync now supports pull request workflows to review your stack changesAWS CloudTrail launches network activity events for VPC endpoints (preview)AWS Serverless Application Repository now supports AWS PrivateLinkAWS announces general availability for Security Group Referencing on AWS Transit GatewayGenerative AI Cost Optimization StrategiesCustomizing your HPC environment: building AMIs for AWS Parallel Computing ServiceMaking traffic lights more efficient with Amazon RekognitionWhose contract is it anyway? How AWS Marketplace worksSwitch your file share access from Amazon FSx File Gateway to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 23, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Transfer Family increases throughput and file sizes supported by SFTP connectors AWS WAF Bot Control Managed Rule expands bot detection capabilities AWS named as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS)Announcing General Availability of the AWS SDK for Swift Reinventing the Amazon Q Developer agent for software development Support for AWS DeepComposer ending soon Unlock AWS Cost and Usage insights with generative AI powered by Amazon Bedrock AWS Welcomes the OpenSearch Software Foundation The Rise of Chatbots: Revolutionizing Customer Engagement 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 16, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon EC2 P5e instances are generally available via EC2 Capacity BlocksAnnouncing Storage Browser for Amazon S3 for your web applications (alpha release)Building a privacy preserving chatbot with Amazon BedrockFaster development with Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Q DeveloperLinux Support Updates for AWS CLI v2Best prompting practices for using Meta Llama 3 with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Build a RAG-based QnA application using Llama3 models from SageMaker JumpStartOptimizing Amazon S3 data transfers over Direct ConnectNew whitepaper available: Building security from the ground up with Secure by DesignSummary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) RegionOpt out from all supported AWS AI servicesOracle and Amazon Web Services Announce Strategic Partnership

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 9th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Organizational Units in AWS Control Tower can now contain up to 1,000 accountsAmazon SES announces enhanced onboarding with adaptive setup wizard and Virtual Deliverability ManagerAWS Glue now provides job queuing AWS Network Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeoutAWS named as a Leader in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code AssistantsAWS to highlight generative AI, cloud advancements at IBC 2024

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 3rd, with Mike Julian. Links:Amazon Braket adds support for Rigetti's 84-Qubit Ankaa™-2 system, our largest gate-based superconducting deviceAnnouncing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instancesAmazon EC2 status checks now support reachability health of attached EBS volumesAmazon EMR support prioritized and capacity-optimized-prioritized allocation strategies for EC2 instancesAmazon OpenSearch Service now supports Graviton3 (C7g, M7g, R7g, R7gd) instances AWS announces Amazon-provided contiguous IPv4 blocksAmazon S3 now supports conditional writesAmazon S3 adds additional context to HTTP 403 Access Denied error messagesAmazon S3 no longer charges for several HTTP error codesAWS CodeBuild now supports Mac buildsAWS Identity and Access Management now supports AWS PrivateLink in all commercial RegionsAWS Network Firewall introduces GeoIP Filtering to inspect traffic based on geographic locationAnnouncing AWS Parallel Computing ServiceNow open — AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) RegionAWS Lambda introduces recursive loop detection APIsAnnouncing AWS KMS Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) support

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

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

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