Last Week In AWS Podcast

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Nov 2026

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The latest in AWS news, sprinkled with snark. Posts about AWS come out over sixty times a day. We filter through it all to find the hidden gems, the community contributions--the stuff worth hearing about! Then we summarize it with snark and share it with you--minus the nonsense.

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November 9, 2026Episode 7455 min

preInvent Begins

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 9th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Quick Introduces Quick Essentials Amazon RDS now supports per snapshot billing AWS WAF AI traffic monetization now supports fiat payouts through Stripe New features for Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager Gain per-developer visibility into Kiro Enterprise credit usage Introducing queue consumption mode for Apache Kafka in AWS Lambda AWS contributes a large-transaction binary log optimization to MySQL Introducing bulk put items for Amazon DynamoDB: Load data from Amazon S3 into existing tables at scale Introducing tunnel endpoints for private access to network segments Inside a successful AWS European Sovereign Cloud exercise to demonstrate independent operation Introducing AWS account access manager: IAM role flexibility with centralized workforce access Fourteen AWS CVEs in one drop, sorted by dread

November 2, 2026Episode 7443 min

A Price Cut Appears, Network Nerds Rejoice

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 2nd with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN now support 1:1 NAT Amazon EMR on EKS reduces EMR charge by 30 percent Announcing the AWS Marketplace and Amazon Business unified storefront Understanding AWS Savings Plans Recommendations: Management vs. Member Account Views The New York Times cut Oracle migration time from 18 to 5 months Preparing for large-scale live streaming events on AWS — Part 1 Introducing Route 53 Resolved IP Validation for AWS Network Firewall Nine AWS Bulletins, Mostly From the Agent Pile

October 26, 2026Episode 7433 min

The Week the Internet Burned Down

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 26th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support On-Demand Capacity Reservation Amazon CloudWatch Omni is now available in additional AWS Regions AWS announces TorchNeuron: Native PyTorch Support for AWS Trainium (Public Beta) AWS announces AWS Interconnect - last mile preview with Megaport Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support disassociating replicas Your last hardware decision shouldn’t decide what you build next. AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally available Introducing Amazon ECS Gateway: A fully-managed ingress solution for ECS services Your CFO wants SAP AI results next quarter – here’s where to start Using AWS WAF to apply mitigations for PHP2Shell RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) Updating encryption on existing Amazon S3 objects with S3 Batch Operations Ten AWS Security Bulletins, One Bad Afternoon

October 19, 2026Episode 7424 min

Lambda Web Functions and Other Time Travel

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 19th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Quick now supports brand templates for on-brand presentations and documents Amazon S3 is now available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Dashboards now support Amazon Bedrock product attributes AWS now lets customers sign up for AWS and pay invoices using ACH direct debit Announcing Blockchain Snapshots on AWS for node bootstrapping Amazon Route 53 now supports registrations, transfers, and renewals for Premium Domains Amazon Time Sync Service adds support for microsecond-accurate time on 135 additional EC2 instance types in all commercial regions Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports timestamp-based stream processing Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions Build AWS Marketplace SaaS metering with the metering agent skill Reducing cross-AZ latency with the AWS Lambda metadata endpoint Six AWS security bulletins, one recurring mistake

October 12, 2026Episode 7414 min

The Cost of Prime Day

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 11th, with Corey Quinn. Links: GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring is now included in the AWS Security Hub Threat Analytics plan AWS Capabilities by Region now offers availability notifications for individual features and advanced filters All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS Introducing EC2 AMI Tag Sharing: Share EC2 tags across AWS accounts Powering predictable costs with AWS Direct Connect flat-rate pricing Introducing Strands Box: AI agent sandboxes powered by Dogwood Eight AWS Security Bulletins, One Bad Week for Defaults

October 5, 2026Episode 7405 min

Your Database Is a Data Lake Now, Apparently

AWS Morning Brief for the week ofOctober 5th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports public endpoints AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides billing context for your account through a new API Uncover blind spots in AWS data plane operations with CloudTrail Event Coverage AWS Service Availability Updates Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now lets you estimate bytes scanned before running a query AWS Budgets now supports email verification for notification subscribers Running multi-day AZ evacuation drills with ARC Zonal Shift Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake Announcing AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered intelligence to optimize your cloud environment (preview) Introducing filtered export from Amazon DynamoDB to Amazon S3 What’s next for Research and Engineering Studio on AWS Routing UDP to on-premises Network Load Balancer targets Introducing the Dogwood Local Engine: temporal governance for agent actions AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Demonstrating an independent operation AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Demonstrating an independent operation

September 28, 2026Episode 7395 min

The Week AWS Was Wrong, Not Broken

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 28th, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Network Security Manager is now generally available in US East (N. Virginia) Region AWS PrivateLink announces Tunnel Endpoints to access network segments Wrong, not broken Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads Introducing enhanced custom event buses in Amazon EventBridge for enterprise-scale event-driven applications Adding custom domains to AWS Lambda MicroVMs with Application Load Balancer Running self-hosted AI agent sandboxes with AWS Lambda MicroVMs How BMW Group detects cost anomalies across 14,000 cloud accounts Four AWS CVEs in a row, escalating nicely

September 21, 2026Episode 7383 min

T8i Instances Bursting With Mild Enthusiasm

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 21st, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Direct Connect announces flat-rate pricing for dedicated connections AWS improves regional resiliency for root user sign-in AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces Cluster Mode AWS reimagines the getting started experience New low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances are generally available Reduce time-to-hire for quality candidates with AI-powered Amazon Connect Talent AWS STS simplifies session token size limits and adds session token size monitoring Seven AWS CVEs and the client-side patching tax

September 14, 2026Episode 7373 min

Lambda Slowly Becomes EC2, One Feature at a Time

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

September 8, 2026Episode 7365 min

Claude Fable 5.1 and Other Bedtime Stories

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

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