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A Fantastic Service Gets Better, Somehow

07.21.2025
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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 July 21st, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

  • Amazon EBS now provides visibility into EBS volume initialization status
  • The Amazon S3 console now displays an external access summary for all your buckets
  • Amazon S3 Tables reduce compaction costs by up to 90%
  • AWS API MCP Server now available 
  • AWS Cost Anomaly Detection improves accuracy with model enhancements
  • AWS Price List API now supports four new Query Filters
  •  Introducing AWS AI League
  • Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for AWS Price List
  • Amazon S3 Metadata now supports metadata for all your S3 objects 
  • AWS Free Tier update: New customers can get started and explore AWS with up to $200 in credits
  • Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Securely deploy and operate AI agents at any scale (preview)
  • Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors: First cloud storage with native vector support at scale (preview)
  • Under the hood: Amazon EKS ultra scale clusters
  • Proven Practices for Succeeding with a Multicloud Strategy
  • Accenture scales video analysis with Amazon Nova and Amazon Bedrock Agents
  • Coming soon: Exam update and new name for cloud operations certification

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