AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 18, with Corey Quinn.

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• Amazon DataZone updates pricing and removes the user-level subscription fee
• Amazon DynamoDB reduces prices for on-demand throughput and global tables
• Amazon DynamoDB introduces warm throughput for tables and indexes
• Amazon EBS now supports detailed performance statistics on EBS volume health
• Amazon Q Developer plugins for Datadog and Wiz now generally available
• Amazon S3 now supports up to 1 million buckets per AWS account
• AWS Backup now supports copying Amazon S3 backups across Regions and accounts in opt-in Regions
• AWS CloudTrail Lake announces enhanced event filtering
• How and why you should move to Cost and Usage Report (CUR) 2.0?
• AWS BuilderCards second edition at re:Invent 2024
• Accelerate your third-party Amazon EKS add-on onboarding using Conformitron
• Python 3.13 runtime now available in AWS Lambda
• Deploy the Cost Optimizer for Amazon WorkSpaces in a highly-regulated environment.
• Introducing the Live Event Framework: Live Streaming with Ad Insertion on AWS
• Introducing kro: Kube Resource Orchestrator
• AWS Snow device updates

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 11, with Corey Quinn.

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• Amazon CloudFront no longer charges for requests blocked by AWS WAF
• Amazon OpenSearch Service announces Extended Support for engine versions
• Configure Route53 CIDR blocks rules based on Internet Monitor suggestions
• Announcing an improved self-guided experience for AWS Partner Central
• AWS introduces service versioning and deployment history for Amazon ECS services
• Reduce your Microsoft licensing costs by upgrading to 4th generation AMD processors
• The attendee’s guide to the AWS re:Invent 2024 Compute track
• Unauthorized tactic spotlight: Initial access through a third-party identity provider
• Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90% - Prime Video Tech
• Our Charity T-Shirt Drive

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 4, with Corey Quinn.

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• Amazon CloudWatch now monitors EBS volumes exceeding provisioned performance
• Amazon Q Developer announces support for inline chat to streamline the developer experience
• Amazon Route 53 announces HTTPS, SSHFP, SVCB, and TLSA DNS resource record support
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud launches new security group sharing features
• AWS now accepts partial card payments
• Announcing AWS Amplify integration with Amazon S3 for static website hosting
• AWS CodeBuild now supports retrying builds automatically
• AWS Trust & Safety Center is now available on AWS re:Post
• 2024 re:Invent Know Before You Go – Cloud Financial Management Sessions
• Introducing an enhanced local IDE experience for AWS Lambda developers

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 28, with Corey Quinn.

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• Amazon Aurora launches Global Database writer endpoint
• Amazon Connect now offers screen sharing
• Amazon EKS endpoints now support connectivity over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
• AWS IAM Identity Center simplifies calls to AWS services with single identity context
• EC2 Image Builder now supports building and testing macOS images
• Introducing an enhanced in-console editing experience for AWS Lambda

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 21, with Corey Quinn.

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• Amazon CloudFront launches support for JA4 fingerprinting
• Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now supports live migration-based host maintenance
• Amazon EFS now supports up to 60 GiB/s (a 2x increase) of read throughput
• Announcing Amazon Q in AWS Supply Chain
• Amazon S3 adds new Region and bucket name filtering for the ListBuckets API
• Assign billing of your shared Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
• AWS Resource Explorer introduces new API to list resource inventory
• AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors now provide real-time status of file transfer operations
• Finch expands support to Linux, streamlining container development across platforms
• Ubuntu Pro for EC2 Spot Instances
• Innovating with AI in Regulated Industries
• Improve public speaking skills using a generative AI-based virtual assistant with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 15, with Corey Quinn.

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• Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey
• Amazon WorkSpaces now supports file transfer between WorkSpaces sessions and local devices
• AWS Application Composer is now AWS Infrastructure Composer
• AWS CodePipeline introduces new general purpose compute action
• AWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops between Lambda and Amazon S3
• Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally available
• How to identify inactive users of Amazon Q Developer
• Transitioning off Amazon Lookout for Metrics
• Sign-in to AWS Console Mobile Application with an AWS Access Portal or third-party IdP URL
• How AWS uses active defense to help protect customers from security threats

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 7, with Corey Quinn.

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• AWS CloudShell extends most recent capabilities to all commercial Regions
• Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 now supports up to 256 ACUs
• Amazon S3 adds Service Quotas support for S3 general purpose buckets
• AWS announces Reserved Nodes flexibility for Amazon ElastiCache
• Duckbill Guide to AWS Reserved Instances
• Deprecation of Lake Formation’s Governed Tables Feature
• Announcing AWS Neuron Helm Chart
• Leverage IAM Roles for email sending via SES from EC2 and eliminate a common credential risk
• Issue with NVIDIA Container Toolkit (CVE-2024-0132, CVE-2024-0133)

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

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• Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports RDS Data API
• Introducing Amazon EC2 C8g and M8g Instances
• Amazon EC2 Instance Connect now supports IPv6
• Amazon SNS now delivers SMS text messages via AWS End User Messaging
• AWS CloudFormation Git sync now supports pull request workflows to review your stack changes
• AWS CloudTrail launches network activity events for VPC endpoints (preview)
• AWS Serverless Application Repository now supports AWS PrivateLink
• AWS announces general availability for Security Group Referencing on AWS Transit Gateway
• Generative AI Cost Optimization Strategies
• Customizing your HPC environment: building AMIs for AWS Parallel Computing Service
• Making traffic lights more efficient with Amazon Rekognition
• Whose contract is it anyway? How AWS Marketplace works
• Switch your file share access from Amazon FSx File Gateway to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server