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Episode731

BGP, Oracle, and Other Things That Hurt

08.03.2026
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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 August 3rd, with Corey Quinn. \

Links:

  • Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs
  • AWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in GA
  • AWS announces aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWS
  • AWS Direct Connect now supports BGP route visibility on Virtual Interfaces
  • AWS IAM Identity Center extends multi-Region support to Identity Center directory
  • AWS announces general availability of Policy-Based Routing on AWS Transit Gateway
  • IAM Policy Simulator moves to the IAM console and adds additional capabilities
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughput
  • Accelerate Spark on EMR Serverless with larger workers and shuffle-optimized disks
  • Installing and updating the AWS CLI with single-line commands
  • Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS
  • How Amazon CloudFront delivered traffic for the FIFA World Cup 2026
  • Amazon identifies North Korean hacker group behind open-source supply chain attacks
  • AWS KMS or AWS CloudHSM: Choose the right key management solution
  • AWS Shield Advanced is embracing the AWS WAF Anti-DDoS managed rule group: What changes and how to prepare
  • Secure your npm and pip package updates in Amazon Linux
  • AWS security bulletins: patching the patch

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