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Episode649

re:Invent Begins

12.02.2024
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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.

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Episode Show Notes

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

Links:

  • Amazon CloudWatch adds context to observability data in service consoles, accelerating analysis
  • Amazon Cognito introduces Managed Login to support rich branding for end user journeys
  • Amazon Cognito now supports passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins
  • Amazon Connect Email is now generally available
  • Amazon EBS announces Time-based Copy for EBS Snapshots
  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces highly responsive scaling policies
  • Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks now supports instant start times and extensions
  • Amazon ECR announces 10x increase in repository limit to 100,000
  • Amazon EFS now supports up to 2.5 million IOPS per file system
  • Amazon S3 now supports enforcement of conditional write operations for S3 general purpose buckets
  • Application Signals provides OTEL support via X-Ray OTLP endpoint for traces
  • AWS delivers enhanced root cause insights to help explain cost anomalies
  • Enhanced Pricing Calculator now supports discounts and purchase commitments (in preview)
  • AWS PrivateLink now supports cross-region connectivity
  • Announcing the new AWS User Notifications SDK
  • Announcing new feature tiers: Essentials and Plus for Amazon Cognito
  • Announcing Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer
  • Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 is now in general availability
  • Introducing a new experience for AWS Systems Manager
  • Introducing generative AI troubleshooting for Apache Spark in AWS Glue (preview)
  • Understanding how certain database parameters impact scaling in Amazon Aurora Serverless v2
  • Analyzing your AWS Cost Explorer data with Amazon Q Developer: Now Generally Available
  • Your guide to AWS for Advertising & Marketing at re:Invent 2024
  • AWS IoT Services alignment with US Cyber Trust Mark
  • Streamlining AWS Organizations Cleanup Strategies

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