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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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#741
Monday · 4 min
The Cost of Prime Day
AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 11th, with Corey Quinn. Links: GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring is now included in the AWS Security Hub Threat Analytics plan AWS Capabilities by Region now offers availability notifications for individual features and advanced filters All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS Introducing EC2 AMI Tag Sharing: Share EC2 tags across AWS accounts Powering predictable costs with AWS Direct Connect flat-rate pricing Introducing Strands Box: AI agent sandboxes powered by Dogwood Eight AWS Security Bulletins, One Bad Week for Defaults
#740
October 5 · 5 min
Your Database Is a Data Lake Now, Apparently
AWS Morning Brief for the week ofOctober 5th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports public endpoints AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides billing context for your account through a new API Uncover blind spots in AWS data plane operations with CloudTrail Event Coverage AWS Service Availability Updates Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now lets you estimate bytes scanned before running a query AWS Budgets now supports email verification for notification subscribers Running multi-day AZ evacuation drills with ARC Zonal Shift Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake Announcing AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered intelligence to optimize your cloud environment (preview) Introducing filtered export from Amazon DynamoDB to Amazon S3 What’s next for Research and Engineering Studio on AWS Routing UDP to on-premises Network Load Balancer targets Introducing the Dogwood Local Engine: temporal governance for agent actions AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Demonstrating an independent operation AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Demonstrating an independent operation
#739
September 28 · 5 min
The Week AWS Was Wrong, Not Broken
AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 28th, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Network Security Manager is now generally available in US East (N. Virginia) Region AWS PrivateLink announces Tunnel Endpoints to access network segments Wrong, not broken Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads Introducing enhanced custom event buses in Amazon EventBridge for enterprise-scale event-driven applications Adding custom domains to AWS Lambda MicroVMs with Application Load Balancer Running self-hosted AI agent sandboxes with AWS Lambda MicroVMs How BMW Group detects cost anomalies across 14,000 cloud accounts Four AWS CVEs in a row, escalating nicely
#738
September 21 · 3 min
T8i Instances Bursting With Mild Enthusiasm
AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 21st, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Direct Connect announces flat-rate pricing for dedicated connections AWS improves regional resiliency for root user sign-in AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces Cluster Mode AWS reimagines the getting started experience New low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances are generally available Reduce time-to-hire for quality candidates with AI-powered Amazon Connect Talent AWS STS simplifies session token size limits and adds session token size monitoring Seven AWS CVEs and the client-side patching tax
#737
September 14 · 3 min
Lambda Slowly Becomes EC2, One Feature at a Time
AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 14th with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon API Gateway now supports 1 MB execution logs with configurable delivery destinations Amazon S3 Object Lock now supports variable retention with event holds Lambda's slow-motion reinvention of EC2 Amazon EC2 now supports specifying compatible instance types on AMIs Announcing second-generation single-rack AWS Outposts How AWS thinks about FinOps Automation and Trust Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones across AWS accounts How to migrate from Amazon CloudSearch to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Introducing Pizza Bot, an open source inbox for AI agents that work in the background Three consecutive CVEs, all AWS-authored code
#736
September 8 · 5 min
Claude Fable 5.1 and Other Bedtime Stories
AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 8th with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for container image functions Amazon CloudWatch now supports warm-up periods for alarms Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces data delivery to general purpose Amazon S3 buckets Amazon Linux 2027 is now available in public preview Amazon CloudFront announces API support for flat-rate pricing plans AAA games on a $35 stick: How Luna removes the hardware barrier with AWS How t54 built a trust layer with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS Tokenomics at scale: How Jamf built real-time spend enforcement for Amazon Bedrock How PGA TOUR automated live profanity detection with AWS using Amazon Transcribe AWS and Microsoft Azure collaborate to expand multicloud networking We invited a direct competitor into Security Hub Extended. Here’s why. Detect stalled Amazon S3 live replication to prevent unexpected storage costs Six AWS security bulletins in five days
#735
August 31 · 5 min
Happy 20th Birthday EC2, You Beautiful Disaster
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 31st, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Lambda functions now support full IAM resource-based policies AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) now supports budget controls and finding revalidation AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Cisco Security Platform and Netskope Automating filtered Cost and Usage Report exports with AWS Data Exports AWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support Happy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2 I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI. AWS and DuckLabs: Building the future of analytics together State of Kansas modernizes mainframe file transfer using AWS Transfer Family Five AWS security bulletins, zero AWS-side fixes
#734
August 24 · 6 min
London Gets an AZ, You Get an Outage
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 24th, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS CloudShell now includes a built-in visual file editor AWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports third-party models on Amazon Bedrock AWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region AWS Billing and Cost Management Introduces Managed Dashboards for Instant Cloud Financial Visibility In the works: AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo Amazon Linux default SSM parameter will now track the latest kernel Introducing public preview runtimes on AWS Lambda, starting with Node.js 26 and Python 3.15 AWS and Amazon WorkSpaces recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale AWS Network Firewall now supports rule hit count Updates to your AWS Sign-In experience Four AWS Security Bulletins in One August Week
#733
August 17 · 5 min
The Week AWS Explained Its Own Error Messages
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 17th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon EC2 introduces application status checks AWS IAM Identity Center supports one-click multi-Region option for new organization instances Amazon S3 adds additional policy details to access denied error messages AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Jenkins and SonarQube Burst to Region: Overflow AWS Outposts workloads to Amazon EC2 Designing for failure: Building resilient systems on AWS Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work Introducing the next-generation AWS VPN Client with CLI support and admin controls AWS Certificate Manager will discontinue email validation to prove domain validation for certificates How AWS IAM role manager rethinks the starting point for IAM roles How to authenticate customers during chat with Amazon Connect Customer How WeatherBug reduced storage costs by 80% using Amazon S3 Storage Lens and Kiro CLI Introducing the new AWS Cloud Quest: AI-powered practice, hands-on building, and a path to official AWS badges Two bulletins, one CVE, and Base64 bites C++
#732
August 10 · 8 min
DynamoDB Does Vectors Now, Because Of Course It Does
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 10th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon ECR now supports image layers up to 200 GB AWS Lambda announces scalable network bandwidth up to 3,000 Mbps for functions outside a VPC AWS Security Hub Extended adds supply chain security as its 10th category OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1 million token context windows on Amazon Bedrock How to understand and estimate combined AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced costs Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale Runtime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Amazon Connect Service Quota Monitor Enforcing data residency with single-Region Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock Reintroducing Network Firewall Proxy for Secure Egress Connectivity AWS Supports Agent Plugins: An Open Standard for Portable Agent Extensions Introducing Dogwood: runtime verification for AI agents AWS partners with Anthropic and OpenAI to bring AWS Continuum into developer workflows Caching KMS data keys in multi-thread environments: Per-tenant encryption for event-driven systems at scale Access Amazon S3 backup data directly using S3 Access Points in AWS Backup Twelve AWS bulletins, mostly AI tooling From weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations
#731
August 3 · 6 min
BGP, Oracle, and Other Things That Hurt
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 3rd, with Corey Quinn. \ Links: Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs AWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in GA AWS announces aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWS AWS Direct Connect now supports BGP route visibility on Virtual Interfaces AWS IAM Identity Center extends multi-Region support to Identity Center directory AWS announces general availability of Policy-Based Routing on AWS Transit Gateway IAM Policy Simulator moves to the IAM console and adds additional capabilities Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughput Accelerate Spark on EMR Serverless with larger workers and shuffle-optimized disks Installing and updating the AWS CLI with single-line commands Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS How Amazon CloudFront delivered traffic for the FIFA World Cup 2026 Amazon identifies North Korean hacker group behind open-source supply chain attacks AWS KMS or AWS CloudHSM: Choose the right key management solution AWS Shield Advanced is embracing the AWS WAF Anti-DDoS managed rule group: What changes and how to prepare Secure your npm and pip package updates in Amazon Linux AWS security bulletins: patching the patch
#730
July 27 · 7 min
New Tools, Ancient Failures, Same Old AWS
AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 26th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon ECS now provides Action Logs for deployment and orchestration visibility Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus supports 1.5B active metrics and 200K rules per workspace Amazon SES introduces pricing plans AWS Network Load Balancer now supports Listener Rules for custom traffic routing AWS Organizations increases RCP quota to 2,000 per organization AWS now supports automatic credit memo application preferences AWS Secrets Manager now publishes secret update notifications to Amazon EventBridge JVM memory, CPU, and classpath best practices for Java containers on AWS Connection pooling strategies in Amazon Aurora DSQL Custom OS installation now available on AWS DeepRacer devices Thermodynamic sampling of disordered materials with an analog Hamiltonian Rydberg simulator Unlocking data residency use cases with Amazon S3 in AWS Local Zones AWS Security Bulletins: New Tools, Ancient Failures
#729
July 20 · 8 min
You Owe Your Country's GDP to AWS
AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 20th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces intelligent tiering for storage Amazon Cognito now supports importing users with password hashes Introducing Amazon GuardDuty AI Protection for AWS AI workloads AWS Organizations now applies account departure security controls by default for new organizations created via AWS Organizations console AWS Lambda announces self-managed code storage Amazon S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale Announcing Lambda MicroVMs: serverless compute environments with VM-level isolation and near-instant startup Eliminating Java cold starts with AWS Lambda Managed Instances Introducing open source Bulk Executor for Amazon DynamoDB Automating CIDR expansion: Reducing IP exhaustion downtime Setting up Layer 2 Networking on Amazon EC2 Security Hub adds AI workload protection and multicloud support for Microsoft Azure Five CVEs and the Agentic AI Security Reckoning
#728
July 13 · 6 min
United Solved IP Exhaustion, You Won't Believe How
AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 13th with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Security Hub extends unified security management to Microsoft Azure Amazon EKS Auto Mode reduces GPU management fees by up to 60% Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai AWS Builder Center Now Offers Free Sandbox Environments AWS Security Hub now offers Network Scanning to identify publicly reachable resources Amazon Cognito now supports self-service provisioned API rate limits AWS Security Hub adds impact analysis for exposure findings Blazing a Trail: How Peloton Rebuilt the SDLC for the Agentic Era with Amazon Bedrock How United Airlines solved IP exhaustion with Private NAT Gateway Building secure AI agents at scale: Introducing Loom for AWS What does it cost to answer one question? Measuring per-request cost in agentic workloads Designing for the inevitable: System prompt leakage and mitigations in generative AI applications The CISO’s guide to post-quantum mandates and migrations Two CVEs on the theme of guarding keys badly
#727
July 6 · 4 min
AWS Discovers ACME Isn't Just Roadrunner Stuff
AWS Morning Brief for the week of July, 6th with Corey Quinn. Links: Announcing general availability of Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents Amazon CloudWatch supports creating alarms from log queries ECS Service Connect now supports Zone-Aware routing How InterWiz reduced AI costs by 90% with Amazon Bedrock Accelerate your infrastructure deployments by up to 4x with AWS CloudFormation Express mode Automate public TLS certificate issuance with ACME support in AWS Certificate Manager Upgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacks Safely Releasing Frontier Models to Customers Accelerating government FinOps with Amazon Quick Four CVEs: AWS reads half your request, leaks the rest
#726
June 29 · 6 min
Open Governance for MySQL Plot Twist
AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 29th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon CloudWatch launches OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS Amazon GuardDuty AI-powered investigations accelerate threat response (Preview) Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver now supports sharing DNS Views between AWS Accounts Automate AWS Invoice Retrieval with New Programmatic APIs Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs Upgrading Lambda function runtimes at scale with AWS Transform custom Huntington Bank: Redacting sensitive data from 400M+ documents with AWS Open Governance for MySQL: A Step Forward for the Community How AWS and a local community organization built a developer engagement model that works Modernizing border control with digital arrival cards on AWS Cloud Prevent data exfiltration: AWS egress controls for cloud workloads Restrict AWS Management Console access to expected networks with sign-in resource-based policies and RCPs A new way to keep your AWS Certification current CVE-2026-12957 and CVE-2026-12958 - Issues in Language Servers for AWS and Amazon Q Developer Plugins
#725
June 22 · 9 min
MySQL 5.7 Will Outlive Us All
AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 22nd, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Marketplace announces AI-assisted product listing Amazon CloudWatch introduces Log Analytics for unified log analysis Amazon EKS now supports customer-routed control plane egress Free Network Bandwidth Amazon GameLift Servers is Here! AWS announces AWS Blocks, an open-source framework for composing application backends on AWS (Preview) AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EBS volume recommendations with additional performance metrics Introducing AWS Continuum for security at machine speed AWS Management Console Private Access now works without internet connectivity AWS Security Agent announces support for Threat Modeling Grok 4.3 from xAI now available in Amazon Bedrock Amazon Aurora and RDS for MySQL expand Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 2029 AWS Marketplace reduces listing fee for professional services to 0.5% S3 Vectors: More Results, Cheaper Queries, Fresh Fees Amazon S3 annotations: attach rich, queryable context directly to your objects Announcing Amazon EC2 G7 instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs AWS DevOps Agent adds release management capabilities to assess code changes before production (preview) AWS WAF adds AI traffic monetization capability to help content owners charge AI bots for content access Simulating Amazon EC2 EBS burst credits before downsizing an instance AWS Security Bulletin Quartet: AI Tools Forget Unix 101
#724
June 15 · 8 min
27 Security Bulletins and Other Bedtime Reading
AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 15th, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS announces AWS Workload Credentials Provider Announcing the public preview of AWS FinOps Agent Introducing AI-Powered Cost Investigations For Cost Anomalies Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 23 new query commands and functions Introducing Target Coverage in Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer Introducing the AWS Credits Detail Page Anthropic Claude Fable 5 on AWS: Mythos-class capabilities with built-in safeguards now available Now available: Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by new AWS Graviton5 processors Try the new console experience in Amazon Bedrock, optimized for Anthropic- and OpenAI-compatible APIs AWS Nitro Isolation Engine: Formally verifying the hypervisor in the AWS Nitro System It’s safe to close your laptop now: Hosting coding agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore 27 AWS Security Bulletins: A Patch Tuesday That Lasted a Year
#723
June 8 · 7 min
OpenAI on Bedrock and Other Strange Bedfellows
AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 8th, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps tier Oracle Database@AWS is now available in twenty AWS Regions Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.36 Amazon SES now supports tenant-level suppression lists AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 32-day lookback for EBS volume and ECS service rightsizing recommendations AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now supports Athena and Redshift integration Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports durability Understanding how backups work in Amazon Aurora OpenAI models and Codex on Amazon Bedrock are now generally available How Bedrock Streaming optimizes its AWS costs From Monolith to Multi-Account: Pinterest’s AWS Organization Transformation Journey Gain visibility into DDoS attacks with flow logs in AWS Shield Advanced Identify unused AWS KMS keys and prevent accidental key deletions CVE-2026-10591 - Kiro IDE Insufficient File Write Restrictions to Execution-Sensitive Paths CVE-2026-10584 - HTTPS Fallback to HTTP in Graph Explorer
#722
June 1 · 6 min
The Week AWS Remembered GovCloud Exists
AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 1st, with Corey Quinn. Links: Monitor AWS Budgets directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with new Budgets widget Introducing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for building your agentic AI applications Optimize costs in Amazon Aurora How AWS DevOps Agent uses multi-agent reasoning to find root causes Claude Opus 4.8 is now available on AWS Best Practices for TCP Connection Management on EC2 Introducing US-based, US citizen, 24/7 technical support for AWS GovCloud (US) customers: Your mission never sleeps, neither do we Well-architected best practices for software supply chain security Automate Amazon EBS gp2 to gp3 migration at scale with AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda AWS Organizations emits CloudTrail events for account membership changes CVE-2026-9255 - Tool Execution Without Authorization via Piped Stdin in Kiro CLI CVE-2026-9291 - Insecure Deserialization in Amazon Braket SDK Job Results Processing

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