Last Week In AWS Podcast

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Jun 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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June 15, 2026Episode 7248 min

27 Security Bulletins and Other Bedtime Reading

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 15th, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS announces AWS Workload Credentials ProviderAnnouncing the public preview of AWS FinOps AgentIntroducing AI-Powered Cost Investigations For Cost AnomaliesAmazon CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 23 new query commands and functionsIntroducing Target Coverage in Savings Plans Purchase AnalyzerIntroducing the AWS Credits Detail PageAnthropic Claude Fable 5 on AWS: Mythos-class capabilities with built-in safeguards now availableNow available: Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by new AWS Graviton5 processorsTry the new console experience in Amazon Bedrock, optimized for Anthropic- and OpenAI-compatible APIsAWS Nitro Isolation Engine: Formally verifying the hypervisor in the AWS Nitro SystemIt’s safe to close your laptop now: Hosting coding agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore27 AWS Security Bulletins: A Patch Tuesday That Lasted a Year

June 8, 2026Episode 7237 min

OpenAI on Bedrock and Other Strange Bedfellows

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 8th, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps tierOracle Database@AWS is now available in twenty AWS RegionsAmazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replicationAmazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.36Amazon SES now supports tenant-level suppression listsAWS Compute Optimizer now supports 32-day lookback for EBS volume and ECS service rightsizing recommendationsAWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now supports Athena and Redshift integrationAmazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports durabilityUnderstanding how backups work in Amazon AuroraOpenAI models and Codex on Amazon Bedrock are now generally availableHow Bedrock Streaming optimizes its AWS costsFrom Monolith to Multi-Account: Pinterest’s AWS Organization Transformation JourneyGain visibility into DDoS attacks with flow logs in AWS Shield AdvancedIdentify unused AWS KMS keys and prevent accidental key deletionsCVE-2026-10591 - Kiro IDE Insufficient File Write Restrictions to Execution-Sensitive PathsCVE-2026-10584 - HTTPS Fallback to HTTP in Graph Explorer

June 1, 2026Episode 7226 min

The Week AWS Remembered GovCloud Exists

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 1st, with Corey Quinn. Links:Monitor AWS Budgets directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with new Budgets widgetIntroducing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for building your agentic AI applicationsOptimize costs in Amazon AuroraHow AWS DevOps Agent uses multi-agent reasoning to find root causesClaude Opus 4.8 is now available on AWSBest Practices for TCP Connection Management on EC2Introducing US-based, US citizen, 24/7 technical support for AWS GovCloud (US) customers: Your mission never sleeps, neither do weWell-architected best practices for software supply chain securityAutomate Amazon EBS gp2 to gp3 migration at scale with AWS Step Functions and AWS LambdaAWS Organizations emits CloudTrail events for account membership changesCVE-2026-9255 - Tool Execution Without Authorization via Piped Stdin in Kiro CLICVE-2026-9291 - Insecure Deserialization in Amazon Braket SDK Job Results Processing

May 26, 2026Episode 7215 min

AWS and Oracle Together at Last, Apparently

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 25th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Bedrock expands support for request-level usage attributionAmazon ECS introduces pause and continue controls for service deploymentsAWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in previewAWS Organizations now supports higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs)Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 is now generally availableIntroducing ExtendDB: An open source DynamoDB-compatible adapter with pluggable storage backendsNine Entertainment’s journey: Achieving 98% cost savings with Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for ValkeyAnnouncing updated retry behavior for AWS SDKs and ToolsAnnouncing AWS CDK Mixins: Composable Abstractions for AWS ResourcesCVE-2026-8838 - Remote Code Execution in amazon-redshift-python-driverCVE-2026-9133 - Arbitrary file read in rabbitmq-aws plugin

May 18, 2026Episode 7207 min

M3 Ultra Macs, Claude Platform, and 619 New APIs Walk Into a Bar

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 18th , with Corey Quinn. Links:Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instancesAmazon EventBridge Scheduler adds 619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed InstancesAmazon Redshift launches RG instances powered by AWS GravitonAmazon Route 53 Domains adds support for 34 new Top Level Domains including .app, .dev, and .health.ENA Express for Amazon EC2 instances now supports traffic between Availability ZonesStreaming CloudWatch metrics to VPC-based OpenTelemetry collectors using LambdaHow HotelTrader cut inter-AZ cost 95% and latency by 49% with Valkey GLIDE on Amazon ElastiCacheIntroducing Claude Platform on AWS: Anthropic’s native platform, through your AWS accountAmazon CloudFront Premium flat-rate pricing plan now supports higher, configurable usage allowancesScalable cross-cloud data migration to Amazon S3 with distributed rcloneDirty Frag and other issues in Amazon Linux kernelsCVE-2026-8178 - Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Class Loading in Amazon Redshift JDBC DriverFragnesia Local Privilege Escalation report via ESP-in-TCP in the Linux KernelOngoing updates on Copy.fail and variantsIssue with Amazon SageMaker Python SDK - Model artifact integrity verification issues (CVE-2026-8596 &amp: CVE-2026-8597)

May 11, 2026Episode 7196 min

AI-Native Foundations and the CVEs That Love Them

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 11th , with Corey Quinn. Links:Announcing Agent Toolkit for AWS — help AI coding agents build effectively on AWSAmazon CloudFront Announces WebSocket Support for VPC OriginsAmazon EventBridge supports data plane logging to AWS CloudTrailAWS IAM now provides higher maximum quotas for roles, role trust policies, instance profiles, managed policies, and identity providersAWS Marketplace now supports programmatic procurement with Agreements APIThe AWS MCP Server is now generally availableAnnouncing Valkey 9.0 for Amazon ElastiCacheQuery billion-scale vectors with SQL: Integrating Amazon S3 Vectors and Aurora PostgreSQLYou Wanted to Become AI-Native, and All You Got Was a Lousy FoundationCVE-2026-7461 - OS Command Injection in Amazon ECS Agent via FSx Windows File Server Volume CredentialsCVE-2026-7791 - Local Privilege Escalation via TOCTOU Race Condition in Amazon WorkSpaces Skylight AgentCVE-2026-31431

May 4, 2026Episode 7188 min

Bedrock Bags OpenAI, Q Developer Bags Groceries

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 4th, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Management Console now supports settings to control service and Region visibility - AWSAmazon CloudWatch adds visual agent configuration to the EC2 consoleAWS Announces Amazon Connect DecisionsAmazon Connect Talent for AI-powered hiring (now available in Preview)Introducing Amazon EC2 R8in and R8ib instancesAmazon OpenSearch Service now supports index-level encryptionAmazon Redshift Serverless AI-driven scaling is now the default for new workgroupsAWS Cost Optimization Hub now supports CSV downloadAWS KMS now tracks last usage of all KMS keysAWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 4.0AWS Marketplace Management Portal now supports bank account deletionAmazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents (Limited Preview)Amazon CloudFront now supports invalidation by cache tagIntroducing Amazon EC2 C8ine and M8ine instancesIdentifying security risks using AWS Cost and Usage Report dataAmazon Q Developer end-of-support announcementIssue with AWS Ops Wheel (CVE-2026-6911 and CVE-2026-6912Issues in tough library and tuftool CLI utilityCVE-2026-7191- Arbitrary Code Execution via Sandbox Bypass in QnABot on AWSIssue with FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP - MAC Address Validation Bypass and ICMP Echo Reply Integer UnderflowCVE-2026-7424 - Integer Underflow in DHCPv6 Sub-Option Parser in FreeRTOS-Plus-TCPIssue with FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP - IPv6 Router Advertisement Memory Safety Issues

April 27, 2026Episode 7179 min

The Week AWS Discovered JOIN Statements

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 27th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports configuration of processors via AIIntroducing the Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway for hybrid Kubernetes networkingAmazon EKS enhances cluster governance with new IAM condition keysAttributed Revenue Dashboard Now Available in AWS Partner CentralAWS Lambda functions can now mount Amazon S3 buckets as file systems with S3 FilesAmazon CloudWatch Logs Insights introduces JOIN and sub-query commandsAWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java GAAmazon S3 Express One Zone now supports S3 InventoryAmazon S3 now supports five additional checksum algorithmsAWS Secrets Manager extends managed external secrets to MongoDB Atlas and Confluent CloudTrack Amazon Bedrock Costs by Caller Identity with IAM Principal-Based Cost AllocationTransforming FinOps with the Latest Amazon Q Cost CapabilitiesAurora Serverless: Faster performance, enhanced scaling, and still scales down to zeroFrom developer desks to the whole organization: Running Claude Cowork in Amazon BedrockGet to your first working agent in minutes: Announcing new features in Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreAutomated network incident response with AWS DevOps AgentAccelerate development workflows with Amazon EBS Volume ClonesTroubleshooting Amazon S3 access denied errors using Kiro CLICVE-2026-6437 - Mount Option Injection in Amazon EFS CSI DriverCVE-2026-6550 - Key commitment policy bypass via shared key cache in AWS Encryption SDK for Python

April 20, 2026Episode 7165 min

Multicloud Interconnect and the Great CVE Hunt

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 20th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon CloudWatch now supports cross-region telemetry auditing and enablement rulesIntroducing Amazon EC2 C8in and C8ib instancesAmazon Quick now supports multi-account sign-in within the same browserAmazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core are now available in two additional AWS RegionsAWS announces general availability of AWS Interconnect - multicloudAutomate AWS Cost Reporting with Scheduled Dashboard Email DeliveryIntroducing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 model in Amazon BedrockIntroducing Amazon Bio DiscoveryCVE-2026-5429 - Kiro IDE Webview Cross-Site Scripting via Workspace Color ThemeIssues with Amazon Athena ODBC DriverIssues with AWS Research and Engineering Studio (RES)CVE-2026-5747 - Out-of-bounds Write in Firecracker virtio-pci Transport

April 13, 2026Episode 7156 min

S3 Files and an AI-Powered Singing Rat Trap

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April, 13th with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Certificate Manager now supports native certificate searchAmazon S3 Lifecycle pauses actions on objects that are unable to replicateAmazon Bedrock now offers Claude Mythos Preview (Gated Research Preview)Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Zstandard (zstd) codec for index compressionAWS Secrets Manager console now supports custom input for AWS KMS keysAmazon Bedrock now supports cost allocation by IAM user and roleAmazon S3 starts rolling out new security best practice to new and existing buckets by defaultIntroducing AI-Powered Cost Analysis in AWS Cost ExplorerLaunching S3 Files, making S3 buckets accessible as file systemsThe future of managing agents at scale: AWS Agent Registry now in previewUnderstanding Amazon Bedrock model lifecycleIntroducing OpenTelemetry & PromQL support in Amazon CloudWatch

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