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EC2 Fractional GPUs Can’t, Lambda Still Whines

08.04.2025
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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 August 4th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. 

  • Amazon Aurora MySQL database clusters now support up to 256 TiB of storage volume 
  • Introducing v2 of Powertools for AWS Lambda (Java)
  • Introducing Extended Support for Amazon ElastiCache version 4 and version 5 for Redis OSS
  • Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available 
  • AWS Lambda response streaming now supports 200 MB response payloads
  • How Zapier runs isolated tasks on AWS Lambda and upgrades functions at scale
  • Amazon Application Recovery Controller now supports Region switch
  • Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6f instances with fractional GPUs
  • Amazon Promotes Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, Unveils 17th Leadership Principle
  • Amazon CloudFront introduces new origin response timeout controls
  • Optimize traffic costs of Amazon MSK consumers on Amazon EKS with rack awareness
  • Amazon Bedrock now available in the US West (N. California) Region
  • New AWS whitepaper: AWS User Guide to Financial Services Regulations and Guidelines in Australia 
  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds AWS Lambda functions as notification targets for lifecycle hooks

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