Last Week In AWS Podcast

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Aug 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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August 31, 2026Episode 7355 min

Happy 20th Birthday EC2, You Beautiful Disaster

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 31st, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Lambda functions now support full IAM resource-based policies AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) now supports budget controls and finding revalidation AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Cisco Security Platform and Netskope Automating filtered Cost and Usage Report exports with AWS Data Exports AWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support Happy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2 I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI. AWS and DuckLabs: Building the future of analytics together State of Kansas modernizes mainframe file transfer using AWS Transfer Family Five AWS security bulletins, zero AWS-side fixes

August 24, 2026Episode 7346 min

London Gets an AZ, You Get an Outage

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 24th, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS CloudShell now includes a built-in visual file editor AWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports third-party models on Amazon Bedrock AWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region AWS Billing and Cost Management Introduces Managed Dashboards for Instant Cloud Financial Visibility In the works: AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo Amazon Linux default SSM parameter will now track the latest kernel Introducing public preview runtimes on AWS Lambda, starting with Node.js 26 and Python 3.15 AWS and Amazon WorkSpaces recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale AWS Network Firewall now supports rule hit count Updates to your AWS Sign-In experience Four AWS Security Bulletins in One August Week

August 17, 2026Episode 7335 min

The Week AWS Explained Its Own Error Messages

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 17th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon EC2 introduces application status checks AWS IAM Identity Center supports one-click multi-Region option for new organization instances Amazon S3 adds additional policy details to access denied error messages AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Jenkins and SonarQube Burst to Region: Overflow AWS Outposts workloads to Amazon EC2 Designing for failure: Building resilient systems on AWS Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work Introducing the next-generation AWS VPN Client with CLI support and admin controls AWS Certificate Manager will discontinue email validation to prove domain validation for certificates How AWS IAM role manager rethinks the starting point for IAM roles How to authenticate customers during chat with Amazon Connect Customer How WeatherBug reduced storage costs by 80% using Amazon S3 Storage Lens and Kiro CLI Introducing the new AWS Cloud Quest: AI-powered practice, hands-on building, and a path to official AWS badges Two bulletins, one CVE, and Base64 bites C++

August 10, 2026Episode 7328 min

DynamoDB Does Vectors Now, Because Of Course It Does

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 10th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon ECR now supports image layers up to 200 GB AWS Lambda announces scalable network bandwidth up to 3,000 Mbps for functions outside a VPC AWS Security Hub Extended adds supply chain security as its 10th category OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1 million token context windows on Amazon Bedrock How to understand and estimate combined AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced costs Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale Runtime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Amazon Connect Service Quota Monitor Enforcing data residency with single-Region Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock Reintroducing Network Firewall Proxy for Secure Egress Connectivity AWS Supports Agent Plugins: An Open Standard for Portable Agent Extensions Introducing Dogwood: runtime verification for AI agents AWS partners with Anthropic and OpenAI to bring AWS Continuum into developer workflows Caching KMS data keys in multi-thread environments: Per-tenant encryption for event-driven systems at scale Access Amazon S3 backup data directly using S3 Access Points in AWS Backup Twelve AWS bulletins, mostly AI tooling From weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations

August 3, 2026Episode 7316 min

BGP, Oracle, and Other Things That Hurt

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 3rd, with Corey Quinn. \ Links: Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs AWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in GA AWS announces aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWS AWS Direct Connect now supports BGP route visibility on Virtual Interfaces AWS IAM Identity Center extends multi-Region support to Identity Center directory AWS announces general availability of Policy-Based Routing on AWS Transit Gateway IAM Policy Simulator moves to the IAM console and adds additional capabilities Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughput Accelerate Spark on EMR Serverless with larger workers and shuffle-optimized disks Installing and updating the AWS CLI with single-line commands Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS How Amazon CloudFront delivered traffic for the FIFA World Cup 2026 Amazon identifies North Korean hacker group behind open-source supply chain attacks AWS KMS or AWS CloudHSM: Choose the right key management solution AWS Shield Advanced is embracing the AWS WAF Anti-DDoS managed rule group: What changes and how to prepare Secure your npm and pip package updates in Amazon Linux AWS security bulletins: patching the patch

July 27, 2026Episode 7307 min

New Tools, Ancient Failures, Same Old AWS

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 26th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon ECS now provides Action Logs for deployment and orchestration visibility Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus supports 1.5B active metrics and 200K rules per workspace Amazon SES introduces pricing plans AWS Network Load Balancer now supports Listener Rules for custom traffic routing AWS Organizations increases RCP quota to 2,000 per organization AWS now supports automatic credit memo application preferences AWS Secrets Manager now publishes secret update notifications to Amazon EventBridge JVM memory, CPU, and classpath best practices for Java containers on AWS Connection pooling strategies in Amazon Aurora DSQL Custom OS installation now available on AWS DeepRacer devices Thermodynamic sampling of disordered materials with an analog Hamiltonian Rydberg simulator Unlocking data residency use cases with Amazon S3 in AWS Local Zones AWS Security Bulletins: New Tools, Ancient Failures

July 20, 2026Episode 7298 min

You Owe Your Country's GDP to AWS

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 20th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces intelligent tiering for storage Amazon Cognito now supports importing users with password hashes Introducing Amazon GuardDuty AI Protection for AWS AI workloads AWS Organizations now applies account departure security controls by default for new organizations created via AWS Organizations console AWS Lambda announces self-managed code storage Amazon S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale Announcing Lambda MicroVMs: serverless compute environments with VM-level isolation and near-instant startup Eliminating Java cold starts with AWS Lambda Managed Instances Introducing open source Bulk Executor for Amazon DynamoDB Automating CIDR expansion: Reducing IP exhaustion downtime Setting up Layer 2 Networking on Amazon EC2 Security Hub adds AI workload protection and multicloud support for Microsoft Azure Five CVEs and the Agentic AI Security Reckoning

July 13, 2026Episode 7286 min

United Solved IP Exhaustion, You Won't Believe How

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 13th with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Security Hub extends unified security management to Microsoft Azure Amazon EKS Auto Mode reduces GPU management fees by up to 60% Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai AWS Builder Center Now Offers Free Sandbox Environments AWS Security Hub now offers Network Scanning to identify publicly reachable resources Amazon Cognito now supports self-service provisioned API rate limits AWS Security Hub adds impact analysis for exposure findings Blazing a Trail: How Peloton Rebuilt the SDLC for the Agentic Era with Amazon Bedrock How United Airlines solved IP exhaustion with Private NAT Gateway Building secure AI agents at scale: Introducing Loom for AWS What does it cost to answer one question? Measuring per-request cost in agentic workloads Designing for the inevitable: System prompt leakage and mitigations in generative AI applications The CISO’s guide to post-quantum mandates and migrations Two CVEs on the theme of guarding keys badly

July 6, 2026Episode 7274 min

AWS Discovers ACME Isn't Just Roadrunner Stuff

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July, 6th with Corey Quinn. Links: Announcing general availability of Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents Amazon CloudWatch supports creating alarms from log queries ECS Service Connect now supports Zone-Aware routing How InterWiz reduced AI costs by 90% with Amazon Bedrock Accelerate your infrastructure deployments by up to 4x with AWS CloudFormation Express mode Automate public TLS certificate issuance with ACME support in AWS Certificate Manager Upgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacks Safely Releasing Frontier Models to Customers Accelerating government FinOps with Amazon Quick Four CVEs: AWS reads half your request, leaks the rest

June 29, 2026Episode 7266 min

Open Governance for MySQL Plot Twist

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 29th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon CloudWatch launches OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS Amazon GuardDuty AI-powered investigations accelerate threat response (Preview) Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver now supports sharing DNS Views between AWS Accounts Automate AWS Invoice Retrieval with New Programmatic APIs Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs Upgrading Lambda function runtimes at scale with AWS Transform custom Huntington Bank: Redacting sensitive data from 400M+ documents with AWS Open Governance for MySQL: A Step Forward for the Community How AWS and a local community organization built a developer engagement model that works Modernizing border control with digital arrival cards on AWS Cloud Prevent data exfiltration: AWS egress controls for cloud workloads Restrict AWS Management Console access to expected networks with sign-in resource-based policies and RCPs A new way to keep your AWS Certification current CVE-2026-12957 and CVE-2026-12958 - Issues in Language Servers for AWS and Amazon Q Developer Plugins

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