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title: "AWS Prime Day Cost ~$135 million"
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published_at: "2024-08-19T10:00:00+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.

[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 Monday, August 19th with Mike Julian.

**Links:**

- [How AWS powered Prime Day 2024 for record-breaking sales](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/how-aws-powered-prime-day-2024-for-record-breaking-sales/)
- [New capabilities for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations: Split, Move, and Modify additional attributes](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/amazon-ec2-on-demand-capacity-reservations-attributes/)
- [Amazon QuickSight now includes nested filters](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/amazon-quicksight-nested-filters/)
- [Announcing Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class support on Amazon EMR](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/amazon-s3-express-one-zone-storage-class-emr)
- [Amazon Verified Permissions improves support for OIDC identity providers](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/amazon-verified-permissions-oidc-identity-providers/)
- [AWS announces support for Cost Allocation Tags on AWS Transit Gateway](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/cost-allocation-tags-aws-transit-gateway)
- [Announcing Karpenter 1.0](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/karpenter-1-0)
- [Visualize enterprise IP address management and planning with CIDR map](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/visualize-enterprise-ip-address-management-and-planning-with-cidr-map/)

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