AWS Morning Brief – Details, episodes & analysis

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 19th with Mike Julian. 

Links:

• How AWS powered Prime Day 2024 for record-breaking sales
• New capabilities for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations: Split, Move, and Modify additional attributes
• Amazon QuickSight now includes nested filters
• Announcing Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class support on Amazon EMR
• Amazon Verified Permissions improves support for OIDC identity providers
• AWS announces support for Cost Allocation Tags on AWS Transit Gateway
• Announcing Karpenter 1.0
• Visualize enterprise IP address management and planning with CIDR map

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 12th with Mike Julian. 

Links:

• Introducing AWS End User Messaging
• Amazon EFS now supports up to 30 GiB/s (a 50% increase) of read throughput
• Amazon RDS for Db2 supports loading data from Amazon S3
• AWS announces private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnets
• Announcing delegated administrator for Cost Optimization Hub
• OpenSearch optimized instance (OR1) is game changing for indexing performance and cost

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, June 10th, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Introducing Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances
• Amazon API Gateway integration timeout limit increase beyond 29 seconds
• Amazon CloudWatch GetMetricData API now supports AWS CloudTrail data event logging
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Live Tail streaming CLI support
• Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports GitHub Cloud source code with blueprints
• Amazon EC2 instance type finder capability is generally available in AWS Console
• AWS Transfer Family increases message size and throughput limits for AS2
• Integrate AWS Cost Anomaly Detection Notifications with IT Service Management Workflow – Part1 Jira
• Introducing CloudFront Hosting Toolkit

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of June 7, 2023.

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 5, 2023 with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Corey is off to Washington DC tomorrow for the Public Sector summit. If you're in town, he’s hosting a drink up at Highline RxR from 6-8 PM tomorrow (Tuesday) evening. Let him buy you a drink!
• AWS Pricing Calculator now offers visibility of point in time cost estimations
• Invoice Summary is now available 
• Optimize your x86-based Amazon EC2 Workloads 
• New – AWS DMS Serverless: Automatically Provisions and Scales Capacity for Migration and Data Replication
• Build hypothetical indexes in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with HypoPG
• Version 1 of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) has reached end-of-support
• The Retail Race: A Roadmap for Implementing a Smart Store Strategy 
• Get ready for AWS IPv6 day
• Introducing a cost control solution for Amazon Braket 

Last week in security news: Faster AWS cloud connections with TLS 1.3, Belkin is crappy in many ways, the Tool of the Week, and more!

Links:

• Amazon bought Pillpack, since they wanted to get into being our pharmacy. Now Pillpack reports a data breach affecting more than 19,000 people.
• Belkin is crappy in many ways
• AWS partners bring choice of temporary elevated access capabilities to IAM Identity Center
• Exclude cipher suites at the API gateway using a Network Load Balancer security policy 
• Faster AWS cloud connections with TLS 1.3 
• Stronger together: Highlights from RSA Conference 2023 
• This is a fun tool: Is It AWS 

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 30, 2023 with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Bloomberg reported this week that I referred to AWS's hyped generative AI offerings that nobody I know has been able to access as vaporware
• Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL improves availability of read replicas 
• AWS Copilot announces Static Site pattern to host single-page web applications 
• Developing a serverless Slack app using AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda
• How Broadridge used Amazon Managed Blockchain to build a private equity lifecycle management solution 
• Stronger together: Highlights from RSA Conference 2023
• Welcome to AWS Documentation

Last week in security news: The ex-Ubiquiti engineer who stole a giant pile of their data gets a six year prison term, Bitbucket will be updating their SSH host keys, AWS Reported a GuardDuty Finding Issue, and more!

Links:

• The ex-Ubiquiti engineer who stole a giant pile of their data gets a six year prison term
• Bitbucket will be updating their SSH host keys 
• Google has decided to free up inactive accounts after two years. Okay, that's their policy, but then they have the audacity to lie to our faces and say it's for "security."
• I have a bunch of Wemo devices at home that control lights. I found out that they've got a buffer overflow that Wemo "will not be fixing" because the devices are end of life.
• AWS Reported a GuardDuty Finding Issue
• The tool of the week: IAMbic lets you tailor AWS Identity Center permissions per account.

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 22, 2023 with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Corey is speaking at Tailscale Up in San Francisco next week; his talk is called "The Managed NAT Gateway Time Machine"
• AWS announces Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized 
• AWS Cost Categories now supports “Usage Type” dimension 
• Retiring the AWS Documentation on GitHub
• Peloton embraces Amazon Redshift to unlock the power of data during changing times 
• Motivations for migration to Amazon DynamoDB 
• Neo Financial achieves Zero Trust goals and meets compliance requirements with Amazon WorkSpaces Web
• Introducing AWS GameTime – a new AWS Twitch show 
• Unlock Insights from your Amazon S3 data with intelligent search 
• Estimating AWS Config recorder costs and usage using AWS CloudTrail
• Creating a strategic approach to government continuity