AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 2nd, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:How Ancestry optimizes a 100-billion-row Iceberg tableMastering Amazon Q Developer with Rules Bob’s Used Books: Build a .NET Serverless Application on AWS – Part 2: ArchitectureHow Amazon Finance built an AI assistant using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Kendra to support analysts for data discovery and business insights Building Your Open Source Commercial Strategy with AWSHow to optimize Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora database costs/performance with AWS Compute OptimizerGracefully handle failed AWS Lambda events from Amazon DynamoDB StreamsAnnouncing the AWS Billing and Cost Management MCP serverAWS joins the DocumentDB project to build interoperable, open source document database technologyCount Tokens API supported for Anthropic’s Claude models now in Amazon Bedrock
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Aurora Spends 10 Years Perfecting the Art of "What the Hell?"
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 25th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool 'a wallet-wrecking tragedySQL injection vulnerability in the AWS Aurora DSQL MCP Server | by Michael Kandelaars | Aug, 2025 | MediumTop AWS chip engineer reportedly defects to ArmCopilot Broke Your Audit Log, but Microsoft Won’t Tell You - Pistachio Blog - Cybersecurity Awareness TrainingAWS blames bug for Kiro pricing glitch that drained developer limits | InfoWorldAmazon Cloud Chief: Replacing Junior Staff With AI Is 'Dumbest' Idea - Business InsiderAWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest ideaHR giant Workday says hackers stole personal data in recent breach | TechCrunchAWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong free senior engineer level code reviews right in your IDECelebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovationVibe code with AWS databases using Vercel v0Enhanced throttling observability in Amazon DynamoDBUnder the hood: how AWS Lambda SnapStart optimizes function startup latencyAWS Security Incident Response introduces integrations with ITSMAmazon Cognito adds terms of use and privacy policy documents support to Managed LoginAWS Billing and Cost Management now provides customizable DashboardsAWS Billing and Cost Management Console adds new recommended actionsAmazon VPC IPAM adds in-console CloudWatch alarm managementhttps://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings
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DocumentDB 3.6: Now Even Less Worth Using
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 18th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:a billion dollars in savings highlights why I'm wrongDemystifying Amazon Bedrock Pricing for a Chatbot AssistantImproving Your Visibility to AWS Sales: A Practical Guide for PartnersAnthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in Amazon Bedrock Expanded Context WindowAmazon EC2 Single GPU P5 instances are now generally available Announcing Extended Support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 3.6CVE-2025-8904 - Issue with Amazon EMR Secret Agent componentAmazon DynamoDB now supports more frequent throughput mode updates from provisioned to on-demand capacity Validate radiology reports using Amazon NovaAmazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)AWS Resource Explorer now Supports Filtering for Multiple ValuesAWS IAM Identity Center introduces support for user background sessions with Amazon SageMaker Studio Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports decreasing your SSD storage capacity AWS Security Incident Response now supports membership coverage for individual AWS organizational unitsUnderstanding AWS Savings Plan Recommendations: Payer vs. Linked Account Views
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The Most Expensive Toggle In The World
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 11th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.Links: AWS Cloud Visibility Best PracticesThis Ars articleAWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizensAmazon killing a user’s accountMountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver v2: Accelerated performance and improved resource usage for Kubernetes workloadsStreamlining outbound emails with Amazon SES Mail ManagerAWS Lambda now supports GitHub Actions to simplify function deploymentAnthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 now in Amazon BedrockAmazon CloudWatch introduces organization-wide VPC flow logs enablementUnderstanding and Remediating Cold Starts: An AWS Lambda PerspectiveAmazon SQS increases maximum message payload size to 1 MiBOpenAI open weight models now available on AWS Best practices for analyzing AWS Config recording frequenciesAmazon EKS adds safety control to prevent accidental cluster deletionAWS Console Mobile App now offers access to AWS SupportAmazon EC2 now supports force terminate for EC2 instances Amazon DynamoDB adds support for Console-to-CodeUsing generative AI for building AWS networksSimplify network connectivity using Tailscale with Amazon EKS Hybrid NodesCost tracking multi-tenant model inference on Amazon Bedrock
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EC2 Fractional GPUs Can't, Lambda Still Whines
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 4th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Amazon Aurora MySQL database clusters now support up to 256 TiB of storage volume Introducing v2 of Powertools for AWS Lambda (Java)Introducing Extended Support for Amazon ElastiCache version 4 and version 5 for Redis OSSAmazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available AWS Lambda response streaming now supports 200 MB response payloadsHow Zapier runs isolated tasks on AWS Lambda and upgrades functions at scaleAmazon Application Recovery Controller now supports Region switchAnnouncing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6f instances with fractional GPUsAmazon Promotes Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, Unveils 17th Leadership PrincipleAmazon CloudFront introduces new origin response timeout controlsOptimize traffic costs of Amazon MSK consumers on Amazon EKS with rack awarenessAmazon Bedrock now available in the US West (N. California) RegionNew AWS whitepaper: AWS User Guide to Financial Services Regulations and Guidelines in Australia Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds AWS Lambda functions as notification targets for lifecycle hooks
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