AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 16th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces increased query concurrency and API limits
• Introducing Amazon Connect Health, Agentic AI Built for Healthcare
• Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver is now generally available
• AWS simplifies IAM role creation and setup in service workflows
• Database Savings Plans now supports Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Neptune Analytics
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk launches Deployments tab with in-progress deployment logs
• Multi-party approval now supports approval team baselining
• AWS announces pricing for VPC Encryption Controls
• The Hidden Price Tag: Uncovering Hidden Costs in Cloud Architectures with the AWS Well-Architected Framework

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 2nd, with Corey Quinn.

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• Amazon Aurora DSQL launches Playground for interactive database exploration
• Amazon Redshift Serverless introduces 3-year Serverless Reservations
• Amazon S3 now provides AWS source region information in server access logs
• AWS Compute Optimizer now applies AWS-generated tags to EBS snapshots created during automation
• AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java now available in Developer Preview
• AWS Trusted Advisor now delivers more accurate unused NAT Gateway checks powered by AWS Compute Optimizer
• 6,000 AWS accounts, three people, one platform: Lessons learned
• Petabyte-Scale Cost Optimization: How a Video Hosting Platform Saved 70% on S3
• Transform live video for mobile audiences with AWS Elemental Inference
• Migrate Amazon EC2 to ECS Express Mode using Kiro CLI and MCP servers
• AI-augmented threat actor accesses FortiGate devices at scale
• AWS posts “correct the record” piece on AI bot outage

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 23rd, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Amazon Bedrock expands support for AWS PrivateLink
• AWS CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules eliminate alert fatigue
• Amazon EC2 supports nested virtualization on virtual Amazon EC2 instances
• Announcing Amazon DocumentDB long-term support (LTS) on 5.0
• AWS Certificate Manager updates default certificate validity to comply with new guidelines
• Claude Sonnet 4.6 now available in Amazon Bedrock
• Kiro is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
• Amazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now available
• Introducing VPC encryption controls: Enforce encryption in transit within and across VPCs in a Region
• Migrating from AWS App Runner to Amazon ECS Express Mode
• Introducing Agent Plugins for AWS
• Build unified intelligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
• Reduce unexpected AWS costs: Tracing AWS billing charges with log correlation techniques