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Episode668

The Art of Amazon Q Developer

04.28.2025
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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 April 28th, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

  • Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) 
  • Amazon Cognito now supports refresh token rotation 
  • Amazon Q Developer releases state-of-the-art agent for feature development 
  • AWS Account Management now supports IAM-based account name updates 
  • AWS CodeBuild adds support for specifying EC2 instance type and configurable storage size 
  • AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Lightsail 
  • AWS STS global endpoint now serves your requests locally in Regions enabled by default 
  • AWS Transfer Family introduces Terraform module for deploying SFTP server endpoints 
  • How Smartsheet reduced latency and optimized costs in their serverless architecture 
  • In the works – New Availability Zone in Maryland for US East (Northern Virginia) Region 
  • CVE-2025-3857 – Infinite loop condition in Amazon.IonDotnet 
  • I annotated Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders

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