Last Week In AWS Podcast

This week dives into exciting AWS updates! EBS now enables four volume modifications daily, a game-changer for flexibility. AWS databases hit Vercel's v0 platform, catering to a new generation of developers. Lambda introduces cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams, simplifying workflows. Enhanced billing console transactions load faster, and AWS Data Exports now provides detailed visibility into Bedrock usage. Plus, the European Sovereign Cloud launches for regulatory trust. Don't miss the warning on a command injection vulnerability!

Corey Quinn dives into the latest AWS updates, starting with the ease of CloudTrail Lake imports into CloudWatch while cautioning about costs. He humorously reflects on the new tmpfs mounts for ECS on Fargate. Spot interruption metrics for EC2 are introduced, adding valuable tracking. Exciting cost cuts come from EMR Serverless removing storage provisioning. He also highlights the swift launch of the .NET 10 runtime for Lambda and shares insights on RDS CPU optimization, particularly for SQL Server.

This week, a deep dive into AWS Payment Cryptography reveals price cuts of up to 63%. The discussion highlights urgent security concerns, including vulnerabilities in S3 encryption clients and Russian threat actors exploiting system misconfigurations. There's a humorous take on the complexity of running WordPress on Kubernetes with OpenZFS, alongside a critique of an overly complicated automated S3 extraction pipeline. Tune in for tech insights and a few laughs!

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 15th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Exploring the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference FrameworkNow generally available: Amazon EC2 C8gb instancesAmazon CloudWatch SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocolsBuilding national foundation modelsNew report: Cloud “fundamental” for European national security and defenseAI Increased Productivity? Consider Hiring More Developers!IAM Policy Autopilot: An open-source tool that brings IAM policy expertise to builders and AI coding assistantsAWS and Google Cloud collaborate to simplify multicloud networkingExploring Optimize CPU feature on Amazon RDS for SQL ServerPrometheus MCP Server: AI-Driven Monitoring Intelligence for AWS Users

Corey Quinn dives into Amazon's Route 53 Global Resolver, grumbling about naming woes. He expresses skepticism about Lambda Managed Instances and the complexities they introduce. The preview of AWS InterConnect raises questions on value versus pricing. CloudWatch's new unified features earn praise but come with a confusing activation process. Exciting news includes S3's object size increase to 50 TB and enhancements to S3 Storage Lens. Corey warns of the React2Shell vulnerability and celebrates the long-awaited introduction of Database Savings Plans.

This week, fascinating topics include dynamic data masking for Aurora PostgreSQL, enhancing security without data duplication. CloudFront introduces mutual TLS support for edge-level authentication, ideal for B2B and IoT applications. There's a humorous take on EC2’s interruptible capacity reservations, raising questions about their function. Corey critiques AWS's approach to closing the AI value gap and dissects zero-ETL claims for Amazon Redshift. The discussion also highlights Route 53’s enhanced recovery and praises Compute Optimizer's recommendations for idle NAT gateways.

Join Corey Quinn as he dives into the latest AWS updates, including the launch of Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 and the exciting official support for Rust in AWS Lambda. Discover how MWAA Serverless and flat-rate CloudFront plans work, along with new EC2 instances featuring NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs. He also highlights improvements to Network Load Balancers and the regional availability of NAT Gateway, making tech management smoother. Plus, learn about the innovative billing transfer feature for centralized cost control.

This week dives into exciting AWS updates, highlighting custom domain names for VPC Lattice resources and frustrations with the rollout. Lambda now supports IPv6 to cut costs, while Control Tower eases account governance with automatic enrollment. Amazon Braket enhances notebooks with CUDA-Q support for quantum simulations. Plus, AWS introduces intelligent rebalancing in MSK Express for faster operations. Keyspaces adds logged batches for atomic operations, and EKS receives affirmation for its zero operator access design.

Discover how AWS PrivateLink now enables cross-region service support and explore its compliance perks. Corey dives into AWS's partnership with OpenAI and critiques an AI playground aimed at educators. Learn about a new whitepaper discussing AI security challenges and insights on cost optimization for AWS users. The episode also covers the evolution of Amazon Connect, highlighting its billion-dollar revenue milestone and the challenges facing the Linux WorkSpaces client due to token vulnerabilities.

Explore the latest AWS innovations, like new CloudWatch metrics that pinpoint EC2 I/O limits. Discover how France Télévisions gears up for the Olympics using AWS Countdown Premium. Dive into Kinesis Data Streams, which now supports significantly larger record sizes, and find out about DocumentDB's upgraded query planner. Learn about the migration from X-Ray SDKs to OpenTelemetry, and the introduction of conditional writes in S3. Plus, see how Kubernetes labels can streamline cost allocation in EKS.