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Episode643

A Bunch of Great Quality of Life Improvements

10.21.2024
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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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A Bunch of Great Quality of Life Improvements

Episode Show Notes

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 21, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

  • Amazon CloudFront launches support for JA4 fingerprinting
  • Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now supports live migration-based host maintenance
  • Amazon EFS now supports up to 60 GiB/s (a 2x increase) of read throughput
  • Announcing Amazon Q in AWS Supply Chain
  • Amazon S3 adds new Region and bucket name filtering for the ListBuckets API
  • Assign billing of your shared Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
  • AWS Resource Explorer introduces new API to list resource inventory
  • AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors now provide real-time status of file transfer operations
  • Finch expands support to Linux, streamlining container development across platforms
  • Ubuntu Pro for EC2 Spot Instances
  • Innovating with AI in Regulated Industries
  • Improve public speaking skills using a generative AI-based virtual assistant with Amazon Bedrock

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