--- title: "AWS’s Snaky Region" id: "15056" type: "newsletter" slug: "awss-snaky-region" published_at: "2025-06-09T14:30:00+00:00" modified_at: "2025-06-09T14:30:00+00:00" url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/newsletter/awss-snaky-region/" markdown_url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/newsletter/awss-snaky-region.md" excerpt: "Good Morning! I’m back from FinOps X in San Diego; now to unpack just what AWS got up to while I was there… From the Community I sure wish \"no yapping\" could be in AWS’s guidelines for talking about GenAI...." --- About the Author Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure. Sign up for the Newsletter Stay up to date on the latest AWS news, opinions, and tools, all lovingly sprinkled with a bit of snark. "*" indicates required fields ## [Good Morning](https://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3lqqn2yhsls2v) ! I’m back from FinOps X in San Diego; now to unpack just what AWS got up to while I was there… ## From the Community I sure wish ["no yapping"](https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3lqegqt3gns2v) could be in AWS’s guidelines for talking about GenAI. If anyone knows Marc Bowes at AWS, I’d appreciate an introduction; this article [Aurora DSQL: How to spend a dollar](https://marc-bowes.com/dsql-how-to-spend-a-dollar.html) is fascinating, and doesn’t align with my understanding of DSQL’s pricing. That tells me that I’m mistaken about something fundamental, and I’d like to fix it! Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec makes a podcast appearance to talk [Amazon S3: The Backbone of Modern Data Systems](https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/episodepage/amazon-s3-data-architecture-impact-episode-467) . I finally put pen to paper with my thoughts on what I’m calling [The Innovation–Optimization Continuum](https://www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/the-continuum/) . ## Podcasts Last Week In AWS: [Priceless Aurora DSQL](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/priceless-aurora-dsql/) ## Choice Cuts [Amazon EC2 now enables you to delete underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/06/amazon-ec2-delete-underlying-ebs-snapshots-deregistering-amis) – Freaking FINALLY. [AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Aurora I/O-Optimized recommendations](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/06/aws-compute-optimizer-aurora-i-o-optimized-recommendations) – I resent that this decision is even necessary. Think about it–your workload suddenly sees a different access pattern, and your only choice is to be reactive about it. Zero shade to Compute Optimizer; they’re doing what they can with what the customer-ambivalent RDS team gives them. [AWS Invoice Summary API is now generally available](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/06/aws-invoice-summary-api-generally-available) – Any time AWS makes it easier to programmatically access billing information, it strikes a blow against its biggest competitor: Microsoft Excel. [Optimize Your AWS Spend with New Cost Savings Features in AWS Trusted Advisor](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/optimize-your-aws-spend-with-new-cost-savings-features-in-aws-trusted-advisor/) – Let me rewrite this for you: Trusted Advisor now uses the excellent Compute Optimizer for its recommendations instead of spouting advice that’s objectively batshit nuts. I don’t trust or recommend Trusted Advisor, largely because of how craptastic their recommendations have been. It’s time to revisit that guidance with this release. [Announcing up to 45% price reduction for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-up-to-45-price-reduction-for-amazon-ec2-nvidia-gpu-accelerated-instances/) – This is interesting when compared to the customer perception at FinOps X last week that these instances are incredibly hard to come by; "when you get one, keep it and dole it out internally" is the guidance one company cited. So now they’re… cheaper? [Now open – AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-asia-pacific-taipei-region/) – Not to be confused with the Taipan region, which is full of deadly snakes. [Upgrade your Amazon DynamoDB global tables to the current version](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/upgrade-your-dynamodb-global-tables-to-the-current-version/) – You’ve had six years. 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