Last Week In AWS Podcast Agents, Plugins, and AgentCore: AWS Has an AI Naming Problem
Feb 23, 2026
Coverage of Bedrock PrivateLink, model naming chaos, and the new AgentCore push for unified intelligence. Walkthroughs of CloudWatch mute rules and VPC encryption controls with surprise pricing. Updates on EC2 nested virtualization, Hpc8a instances, and DocumentDB long-term support. A look at Agent Plugins, migrations from App Runner to ECS, and tools for tracing unexpected AWS costs.
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DocumentDB Gets Long Term Support
- Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 gains long-term support, positioning it as a stable MongoDB-compatible offering.
- Corey Quinn quips AWS promises to 'stop breaking your database for a while,' noting it's not actually MongoDB.
ACM Cuts Certificate Validity And Prices
- ACM reduced default certificate validity to comply with CA/B Forum rules and lowered exportable cert pricing proportionally.
- Corey Quinn praises auto-renewal and notes ops teams get a rare break with no required action.
Think Twice Before Running Agentic IDEs In GovCloud
- Consider security implications before using agentic AI tools like Kiro in sensitive environments despite GovCloud availability.
- Corey Quinn sarcastically notes classified workloads now can run an AI IDE that generates code and connects to databases.