

AWS Morning Brief
Corey Quinn
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.
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Mar 25, 2024 • 5min
Cancel Recent Savings Plan Purchases
AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 25, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS PrivateLinkAmazon WorkMail now supports Audit LoggingAWS announces a 7-day window to return Savings Plans AWS CodeBuild now supports custom images for AWS Lambda computeEC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts now provide visibility into supported macOS versionsInvoke AWS Lambda functions from cross-account Amazon Kinesis Data StreamsTraeger Grills’s Customer Experience team drives customer satisfaction significantly using Amazon QuickSight Bulk update Amazon DynamoDB tables with AWS Step Functions Simplify cross-account access control with Amazon DynamoDB using resource-based policies How to securely provide access to centralized AWS CloudTrail Lake logs across accounts in your organizationHow to optimize DNS for dual-stack networksIntroducing mTLS for Application Load Balancer 6 foundational capabilities you need for generative AIIt’s time to evolve IT procurementAWS and NVIDIA extend their collaboration to advance generative AI

Mar 18, 2024 • 3min
A Claude 3 Haiku
AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 18, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon EFS now supports up to 20 GiB/s of throughputAmazon SES now offers support for headers when sending emailAWS announces Aurora MySQL integration with Amazon Bedrock for Generative AI AWS Backup now supports restore testing for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive Experience up to 40% faster stack creation with AWS CloudFormationAWS Cost Categories launches a revamped user interface Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model is now available on Amazon BedrockNew European study: AI skills will significantly boost productivity and salaries

Mar 11, 2024 • 5min
GenAI Prattlings and Actually Useful Things
AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 11, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:Start your Engines! Announcing the 2024 AWS DeepRacer LeagueAccelerate no-code ML with a refreshed homepage in Amazon SageMaker CanvasAWS re:Post introduces re:Post Live How Accenture Accelerates Building a Secure Cloud Foundation Natively on AWS Accenture scored itself an S3 bucket negligence award Revolutionize Your Business with AWS Generative AI Competency PartnersAmazon RDS now supports io2 Block Express volumes for mission-critical database workloadsFree data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS Unlocking Innovation: AWS and Anthropic push the boundaries of generative AI togetherThe benefits of running controlled substance databases with AWSIntroducing the AWS WAF traffic overview dashboard

Mar 4, 2024 • 6min
Mexico Region and GenAI Open Season
AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 4, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon CloudFront announces availability of Embedded Points of Presence Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports IPv6Amazon Data Firehose adds message extraction feature for decompressed CloudWatch Logs Amazon EC2 m7i.metal-24xl instance is now generally available for VMware Cloud on AWSAmazon EKS announces support for Amazon Linux 2023AWS announces Amazon Neptune I/O-Optimized AWS Batch now offers multi-container jobs New AWS Region in Mexico is in the works Engage online sports fans with live event commentary using generative AI on Amazon BedrockDelivering Business Value with Cloud Platform Teams The Power of Cloud Storage for Small and Medium Businesses: Unlocking Efficiency and Security

Feb 26, 2024 • 4min
S3: Jetsons Era Technology, Flintstones Era Billing Transparency
AWS Morning Brief discusses the new AWS features such as improved incident response times, .NET 8 runtime for Lambda, best practices for managing Terraform state files, and understanding Amazon S3 data transfer costs.

Feb 20, 2024 • 3min
Managed OUs and An Intriguing IAM Hierarchical Model
AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 20, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Bedrock console gets a modern look-and-feel AWS Control Tower introduces APIs to register Organizational Units Build generative AI chatbots using prompt engineering with Amazon Redshift and Amazon BedrockHow to enforce creation of roles in a specific path: Use IAM role naming in hierarchy models

Feb 12, 2024 • 5min
A Nuanced Logging Optimization Point
AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 12, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links:re:Invent 2023 Cost Optimization highlights that you were not expectingAWS Twitch show on cost optimizationFive things to consider when choosing your cloud provider Announcing CDK Migrate: A single command to migrate to the AWS CDKAccenture creates a regulatory document authoring solution using AWS generative AI servicesUsing one-click unsubscribe with Amazon SESHow to interconnect AWS Cloud WAN core networks

Feb 5, 2024 • 4min
A Slightly Better Free Tier
AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 5, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon EC2 added new price protection for attribute based instance selectionAWS announces a new Local Zone in Chicago, Illinois AWS Free Tier now includes 750 hours of free Public IPv4 addresses, as charges for Public IPv4 begin Optimize costs by automating AWS Compute Optimizer recommendationsA new and improved AWS CDK construct for Amazon DynamoDB tables Announcing Generative AI CDK ConstructsAWS Marketplace now available in the AWS Secret Region Building your machine learning skills from zero I dipped my toes in the Machine Learning® world a while back and found an impressively great tool for it: Google Colab. RHEL Pricing – Amazon Web ServicesIncorrect RI / SP Purchase Warnings

Jan 29, 2024 • 3min
Armageddon! IPv6, and starting this week, blood
AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 29, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Billing Conductor releases account-scoped custom line items Introducing IPv6 instance bundles on Amazon Lightsail Sellers can now resell third-party professional services in AWS MarketplaceThe Journey to IPv6 on Amazon EKS: Foundation (Part 1)Deploy a Microsoft Teams gateway for Amazon Q, your business expert RED Camera Cloud Upload to AWSVMware’s Cloud Journey: AWS Account Management at Scale

Jan 22, 2024 • 4min
A Welcome EKS Price Hike
AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 22, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS CodeBuild announces support for reserved capacityAWS Config now supports 22 new resource types AWS Transfer Family provides static IP addresses for SFTP connectorsGLIDE for Redis, an OSS Redis client sponsored by AWS, now available in previewROSA with hosted control planes (HCP) is generally availableHow Infosys is Reimagining Enterprise Solutions with Generative AI on AWS AWS Marketplace features to accelerate your renewals strategyAmazon EKS extended support for Kubernetes versions pricing


