--- title: "In the Bleak Theater of the Cloud: A Werner Herzog-Style Dispatch" id: "15079" type: "podcast" slug: "in-the-bleak-theater-of-the-cloud-a-werner-herzog-style-dispatch" published_at: "2025-07-28T07:00:00+00:00" modified_at: "2026-03-02T03:26:57+00:00" url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/in-the-bleak-theater-of-the-cloud-a-werner-herzog-style-dispatch/" markdown_url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/in-the-bleak-theater-of-the-cloud-a-werner-herzog-style-dispatch.md" taxonomy_shows: - "Last Week In AWS" --- 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. [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-morning-brief/id1466344305](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-morning-brief/id1466344305) [https://overcast.fm/itunes1466344305/aws-morning-brief](https://overcast.fm/itunes1466344305/aws-morning-brief) [https://pca.st/AKs0](https://pca.st/AKs0) [https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/2382583](https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/2382583) [https://open.spotify.com/show/3A04JNrNAcZMvn8cvDWpWU](https://open.spotify.com/show/3A04JNrNAcZMvn8cvDWpWU) [https://feeds.transistor.fm/aws-morning-brief](https://feeds.transistor.fm/aws-morning-brief) ## Episode Summary AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 28th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. ## Episode Show Notes & Transcript **Links:** - [Launching Amazon CloudWatch generative AI observability (Preview)](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/launching-amazon-cloudwatch-generative-ai-observability-preview/) - [Amazon CloudWatch adds IPv6 support](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/07/amazon-cloudwatch-adds-ipv6-support) - [Boost cold-start recommendations with vLLM on AWS Trainium](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/boost-cold-start-recommendations-with-vllm-on-aws-trainium/) - [AWS Private CA now supports issuing up to 100 million certificates per CA](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/07/aws-private-ca-issuing-100-million-certificates-ca/) - [Amazon Connect announces per-day pricing for external voice connectors](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/07/amazon-connect-announces-per-day/) - [Amazon RDS for Db2 adds support for group-based authorization with self-managed Active Directory](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/07/amazon-rds-db2-authorization-managed-active-directory/) - [Manage multi-tenant Amazon Bedrock costs using application inference profiles](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/manage-multi-tenant-amazon-bedrock-costs-using-application-inference-profiles/) - [Simplify serverless development with console to IDE and remote debugging for AWS Lambda | AWS News Blog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/simplify-serverless-development-with-console-to-ide-and-remote-debugging-for-aws-lambda/) - [AWS Generative AI for Developers Professional Certificate](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/training-and-certification/aws-generative-ai-for-developers-professional-certificate/) - [Simplify AWS Organization Tag Policies using new wildcard statement](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/07/aws-organization-tag-policies-wildcard-statement) - [Security Update for Amazon Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code (Version #1.84)](https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/rss/aws-2025-015/) - [Cost Optimization Hub now supports account names in optimization opportunities](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/07/cost-optimization-hub-account-names-optimization-opportunities/) - [Year One of Valkey: Open-Source Innovations and ElastiCache version 8.1 for Valkey](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/year-one-of-valkey-open-source-innovations-and-elasticache-version-8-1-for-valkey/) - - [go listen to the audio version of this newsletter specifically for this item](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/) . - [AWS Security Incident Response: The customer’s journey to accelerating the incident response lifecycle](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-security-incident-response-the-customers-journey-to-accelerating-the-incident-response-lifecycle/) - [AWS Service Reference Information now supports actions for last accessed services](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/07/aws-service-reference-information-actions-last-accessed-services) - - [Five facts about how the CLOUD Act actually works | AWS Security Blog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/five-facts-about-how-the-cloud-act-actually-works/) - [Bob’s Used Books: Build a .NET Serverless Application on AWS, Part 1: Deployment and Setup](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/dotnet/bobs-used-books-build-a-net-serverless-application-on-aws-part-1-deployment-and-setup/) - [Amazon EC2 now supports skipping the operating system shutdown when stopping or terminating instances](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/07/amazon-ec2-skip-os-shutdown-option-during-stop-terminate) - [New whitepaper available: AICPA SOC 2 Compliance Guide on AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/new-whitepaper-available-aicpa-soc-2-compliance-guide-on-aws/) - [Why 2025 is the Inflection Point for AWS Cloud Migration](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/why-2025-is-the-inflection-point-for-aws-cloud-migration/) - [Beyond IAM access keys: Modern authentication approaches for AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/beyond-iam-access-keys-modern-authentication-approaches-for-aws/) - [Introducing SRA Verify – an AWS Security Reference Architecture assessment tool](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/introducing-sra-verify-an-aws-security-reference-architecture-assessment-tool/) - [Supercharging Ad Creative with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Nova: How AI is Revolutionizing Content Generation for Advertising & Marketing Use-Cases](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/supercharging-ad-creative-with-amazon-bedrock-and-amazon-nova-how-ai-is-revolutionizing-content-generation-for-advertising-marketing-use-cases/) - [Building resilient multi-tenant systems with Amazon SQS fair queues](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-resilient-multi-tenant-systems-with-amazon-sqs-fair-queues/) - [How Truth For Life transformed its viewer analytics while optimizing costs](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/how-truth-for-life-transformed-its-viewer-analytics-while-optimizing-costs/) View Full Transcript Hide Full Transcript ## You might also like [More Podcast Episodes](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/)