--- title: "A Slightly Better Free Tier" id: "14504" type: "podcast" slug: "a-slightly-better-free-tier" published_at: "2024-02-05T12:00:00+00:00" modified_at: "2026-05-17T00:03:58+00:00" url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/a-slightly-better-free-tier/" markdown_url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/a-slightly-better-free-tier.md" taxonomy_shows: - "Last Week In AWS Podcast" --- 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 ## Episode Show Notes & Transcript AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 5, 2024, with Corey Quinn. **Links:** - [Amazon EC2 added new price protection for attribute based instance selection](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/01/amazon-ec2-price-protection-attribute-instance-selection/) - [AWS announces a new Local Zone in Chicago, Illinois](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/01/aws-local-zone-chicago-illinois/) - [AWS Free Tier now includes 750 hours of free Public IPv4 addresses, as charges for Public IPv4 begin](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/02/aws-free-tier-750-hours-free-public-ipv4-addresses/) - [Optimize costs by automating AWS Compute Optimizer recommendations](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/optimize-costs-by-automating-aws-compute-optimizer-recommendations/) - [A new and improved AWS CDK construct for Amazon DynamoDB tables](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/a-new-and-improved-aws-cdk-construct-for-amazon-dynamodb-tables/) - [Announcing Generative AI CDK Constructs](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/announcing-generative-ai-cdk-constructs/) - [AWS Marketplace now available in the AWS Secret Region](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/aws-marketplace-now-available-in-the-aws-secret-region/) - [Building your machine learning skills from zero](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/training-and-certification/building-ml-skills-from-zero/) - I dipped my toes in the Machine Learning® world a while back and found an impressively great tool for it: [Google Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/) . - [RHEL Pricing – Amazon Web Services](https://aws.amazon.com/partners/redhat/rhel-pricing/) - [Incorrect RI / SP Purchase Warnings](https://twitter.com/mike_julian/status/1752135606757671201) View Full Transcript Hide Full Transcript ## You might also like [More Podcast Episodes](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/) ### [M3 Ultra Macs, Claude Platform, and 619 New APIs Walk Into a Bar](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/m3-ultra-macs-claude-platform-and-619-new-apis-walk-into-a-bar/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 05.18.2026 7 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/m3-ultra-macs-claude-platform-and-619-new-apis-walk-into-a-bar/) ### [AI-Native Foundations and the CVEs That Love Them](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/ai-native-foundations-and-the-cves-that-love-them/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 05.11.2026 7 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/ai-native-foundations-and-the-cves-that-love-them/) ### [Bedrock Bags OpenAI, Q Developer Bags Groceries](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/bedrock-bags-openai-q-developer-bags-groceries/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 05.04.2026 9 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/bedrock-bags-openai-q-developer-bags-groceries/)