AWS Morning Brief for the week of April, 13th with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• AWS Certificate Manager now supports native certificate search
• Amazon S3 Lifecycle pauses actions on objects that are unable to replicate
• Amazon Bedrock now offers Claude Mythos Preview (Gated Research Preview)
• Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Zstandard (zstd) codec for index compression
• AWS Secrets Manager console now supports custom input for AWS KMS keys
• Amazon Bedrock now supports cost allocation by IAM user and role
• Amazon S3 starts rolling out new security best practice to new and existing buckets by default
• Introducing AI-Powered Cost Analysis in AWS Cost Explorer
• Launching S3 Files, making S3 buckets accessible as file systems
• The future of managing agents at scale: AWS Agent Registry now in preview
• Understanding Amazon Bedrock model lifecycle
• Introducing OpenTelemetry & PromQL support in Amazon CloudWatch

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 6th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Announcing Amazon RDS for Oracle on AWS Outposts
• AWS Direct Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation
• AWS Service Availability Updates
• Amazon S3 Vectors expands to 17 additional AWS Regions
• Amazon CloudFront now supports SHA-256 for signed URLs and signed cookies
• Amazon CloudWatch now supports OpenTelemetry metrics in public preview
• Announcing compute-optimized instance bundles for Amazon Lightsail
• Announcing managed daemon support for Amazon ECS Managed Instances
• Leverage Agentic AI for Autonomous Incident Response with AWS DevOps Agent
• Navigating the NGINX Ingress retirement: A practical guide to migration on AWS
• Optimizing data transfer costs when using AWS Network Load Balancer
• AWS Security Agent on-demand penetration testing now generally available
  
  

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 30th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now available with the AWS Free Tier
• Amazon EKS announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement and new 8XL scaling tier for Provisioned Control Plane clusters
• AWS Lambda increases the file descriptor limit to 4,096 for functions running on Lambda Managed Instances
• The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now supports automatic query caching with Valkey
• Announcing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL serverless database creation in seconds
• Enhancing auto scaling resilience by tracking worker utilization metrics
• Amazon CloudFront flat-rate pricing plans: new features and expanded capabilities
• IAM policy types: How and when to use them
• Preparing for agentic AI: A financial services approach

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

Links:

• Amazon Corretto 26 is now generally available
• Amazon SimpleDB now supports exporting domain data to Amazon S3
• AWS CDK Mixins is now generally available
• AWS Lambda Managed Instances now supports Rust
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports log ingestion using HTTP-based protocol
• AWS Lambda now supports Availability Zone metadata
• Expanding the BOX Program to Business Consulting and Advisory Partners
• Twenty years of Amazon S3 and building what’s next
• Synchronizing a Backup on-premises Db2 Server with Amazon RDS for Db2
• AWS and NVIDIA deepen strategic collaboration to accelerate AI from pilot to production
• Migrate from Amazon Nova 1 to Amazon Nova 2 on Amazon Bedrock
• Essential security controls to prevent unauthorized account removal in AWS Organizations
• Demystifying Amazon VPC peering charges
• AWS and Others Invest $12.5M to Defend the Open Source Ecosystem from AI Threats
• Amazon threat intelligence teams identify Interlock ransomware campaign targeting enterprise firewalls
• 20 years of Amazon S3: A storage professional’s journey to AWS Hero
• CVE-2026-4270 - AWS API MCP File Access Restriction Bypass
• CVE-2026-4269 - Improper S3 ownership verification in Bedrock AgentCore Starter Toolkit
• Arbitrary code execution via crafted project files in Kiro IDE
• CVE-2026-4428: Issues with AWS-LC - CRL Distribution Point Scope Check Logic Error

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.

Links:

• 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

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 17th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available in additional AWS Regions
• Amazon Bedrock adds support for six fully-managed open weights models
• AWS Config now supports 30 new resource types
• Announcing new Amazon EC2 general purpose M8azn instances
• AWS Network Firewall announces new price reductions
• Amazon S3 Tables add partition and sort order definition in the CreateTable API
• Amazon Athena adds 1-minute reservations and new capacity control features
• Building fault-tolerant applications with AWS Lambda durable functions
• Simplify cross-account stream processing with AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB
• Automated Reasoning checks rewriting chatbot reference implementation
• Mastering Amazon Bedrock throttling and service availability: A comprehensive guide
• Reservoir computing on an analog Rydberg-atom quantum computer