Last Week In AWS Podcast

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Oct 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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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

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

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