AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 15th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Exploring the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference Framework
• Now generally available: Amazon EC2 C8gb instances
• Amazon CloudWatch SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocols
• Building national foundation models
• New report: Cloud “fundamental” for European national security and defense
• AI Increased Productivity? Consider Hiring More Developers!
• IAM Policy Autopilot: An open-source tool that brings IAM policy expertise to builders and AI coding assistants
• AWS and Google Cloud collaborate to simplify multicloud networking
• Exploring Optimize CPU feature on Amazon RDS for SQL Server
• Prometheus MCP Server: AI-Driven Monitoring Intelligence for AWS Users

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 8th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Introducing Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver for secure anycast DNS resolution (preview)
• Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility
• AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud
• Introducing AWS Transform custom: Crush tech debt with AI-powered code modernization
• Amazon CloudWatch introduces unified data management and analytics for operations, security, and compliance
• Amazon EC2 P6e-GB300 UltraServers accelerated by NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 are now generally available
• Introducing AWS AI Factories
• Introducing AWS DevOps Agent (preview), frontier agent for operational excellence
• Amazon S3 Storage Lens adds performance metrics, support for billions of prefixes, and export to S3 Tables
• Build multi-step applications and AI workflows with AWS Lambda durable functions
• Amazon S3 increases the maximum object size to 50 TB
• Amazon S3 Tables now offer the Intelligent-Tiering storage class
• China-nexus cyber threat groups rapidly exploit React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182)
• Introducing Database Savings Plans for AWS Databases

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 1st, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Protect sensitive data with dynamic data masking for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
• Amazon CloudFront announces support for mutual TLS authentication
• Amazon EC2 announces interruptible Capacity Reservations
• Introducing guidelines for network scanning
• Practical implementation considerations to close the AI value gap
• Everything you don’t need to know about Amazon Aurora DSQL: Part 4 – DSQL components
• Simplify data integration using zero-ETL from self-managed databases to Amazon Redshift
• Automatic quota management is now AWS Service Quotas adds support for automatic quota management
• Announcing Amazon Route 53 Accelerated Recovery for managing public DNS records
• Announcing Unused NAT Gateway Recommendations in AWS Compute Optimizer
• Amazon EKS introduces Provisioned Control Plane
• AWS Finally Lets You Find Your Idle NAT Gateways