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Episode695

APIs to Tell You What You Already Paid For

11.03.2025
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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 November 3rd, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

  • Beyond pilots: A proven framework for scaling AI to production
  • New Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor EC2 instances exceeding I/O performance
  • Processing Amazon S3 objects at scale with AWS Step Functions Distributed Map S3 prefix
  • What’s the difference between AWS ParallelCluster and AWS Parallel Computing Service?
  • France Télévisions prepared for 2024 Olympic Games with AWS Countdown Premium
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports 10x larger record sizes
  • Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announces upgraded query planner that can run queries up to 10x faster
  • Announcing AWS X-Ray SDKs/Daemon End-of-Support and OpenTelemetry Migration
  • Amazon S3 adds conditional write functionality to copy operations
  • Introducing the Capacity Reservation Topology API for AI, ML, and HPC instance types
  • How to deploy a SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance across three Availability Zones using Storage Spaces Direct 
  • Reduce CAPTCHAs for AI agents browsing the web with Web Bot Auth (Preview) in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser
  • Using Kubernetes Labels to Split and Track Application Costs on Amazon EKS
  • Introducing AWS Lambda event source mapping tools in the AWS Serverless MCP Server 
  • Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS supports Kubernetes labels

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