Last Week In AWS Podcast

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 14th with Corey Quinn. 

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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

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

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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

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 31st, with Corey Quinn. 
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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

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 24th, with Corey Quinn. 

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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

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

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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++