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title: "Amazon Q Rules Except It Doesn’t At All"
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published_at: "2025-09-03T04:33:15+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-04-04T22:20:01+00:00"
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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.

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## Episode Summary

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 2nd, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

## Episode Show Notes & Transcript

**Links:**

- [How Ancestry optimizes a 100-billion-row Iceberg table](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/how-ancestry-optimizes-a-100-billion-row-iceberg-table/)
- [Mastering Amazon Q Developer with Rules](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/mastering-amazon-q-developer-with-rules/)
- [Bob’s Used Books: Build a .NET Serverless Application on AWS – Part 2: Architecture](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/dotnet/bobs-used-books-build-a-net-serverless-application-on-aws-part-2-architecture/)
- [How Amazon Finance built an AI assistant using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Kendra to support analysts for data discovery and business insights](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/how-amazon-finance-built-an-ai-assistant-using-amazon-bedrock-and-amazon-kendra-to-support-analysts-for-data-discovery-and-business-insights/)
- [Building Your Open Source Commercial Strategy with AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/building-your-open-source-commercial-strategy-with-aws/)
- [How to optimize Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora database costs/performance with AWS Compute Optimizer](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-to-optimize-amazon-rds-and-amazon-aurora-database-costs-performance-with-aws-compute-optimizer/)
- [Gracefully handle failed AWS Lambda events from Amazon DynamoDB Streams](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/gracefully-handle-failed-aws-lambda-events-from-amazon-dynamodb-streams/)
- [Announcing the AWS Billing and Cost Management MCP server](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/08/aws-billing-cost-management-mcp-server/)
- [AWS joins the DocumentDB project to build interoperable, open source document database technology](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-joins-the-documentdb-project-to-build-interoperable-open-source-document-database-technology/)
- [Count Tokens API supported for Anthropic’s Claude models now in Amazon Bedrock](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/08/count-tokens-api-anthropics-claude-models-bedrock/)

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