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AWS Morning Brief

AWS Morning Brief

Written by: Corey Quinn
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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.The Duckbill Group Politics & Government
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  • Bedrock Throttling Guide: AWS Publishes Its Own Roast
    Feb 17 2026

    AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 17th, with Corey Quinn.

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    • Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available in additional AWS Regions
    • Amazon Bedrock adds support for six fully-managed open weights models
    • AWS Config now supports 30 new resource types
    • Announcing new Amazon EC2 general purpose M8azn instances
    • AWS Network Firewall announces new price reductions
    • Amazon S3 Tables add partition and sort order definition in the CreateTable API
    • Amazon Athena adds 1-minute reservations and new capacity control features
    • Building fault-tolerant applications with AWS Lambda durable functions
    • Simplify cross-account stream processing with AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB
    • Automated Reasoning checks rewriting chatbot reference implementation
    • Mastering Amazon Bedrock throttling and service availability: A comprehensive guide
    • Reservoir computing on an analog Rydberg-atom quantum computer
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    6 mins
  • Your Account Name Was There All Along (It Wasn't)
    Feb 9 2026

    AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 9th, with Corey Quinn.

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    • Change the server-side encryption type of Amazon S3 objects
    • Announcing memory-optimized instance bundles for Amazon Lightsail
    • Amazon RDS now provides an enhanced console experience to connect to a database
    • AWS Multi-party approval now requires one-time password verification for voting
    • AWS Management Console now displays Account Name on the Navigation bar
    • Structured outputs now available in Amazon Bedrock
    • Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances with up to 22.8 TB local NVMe storage are generally available
    • AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication for AWS account access and application use
    • Trigger AWS Lambda functions from Amazon RDS for SQL Server database events
    • Amazon CloudFront now supports mTLS authentication to origins
    • Bevar Ukraine: Empowering Ukrainian refugees with AI-powered support on AWS
    • Security Findings in SageMaker Python SDK
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    6 mins
  • Bigger Pipes, Warmer Tables, Sadder IPs
    Feb 2 2026

    AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 2nd, with Corey Quinn.

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    • AWS Network Firewall now supports GenAI traffic visibility and enforcement with Web category-based filtering
    • More room to build: serverless services now support payloads up to 1 MB
    • Introducing pre-warming for Amazon Keyspaces tables
    • Managing IP address exhaustion for Amazon RDS Proxy
    • Strategies for upgrading Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL from version 13
    • File integrity monitoring with AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Security Lake


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    4 mins
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