--- title: "Happy 20th Birthday EC2, You Beautiful Disaster" id: "15432" type: "podcast" slug: "happy-20th-birthday-ec2-you-beautiful-disaster" published_at: "2026-08-31T10:30:00+00:00" modified_at: "2026-08-31T10:38:30+00:00" url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/happy-20th-birthday-ec2-you-beautiful-disaster/" markdown_url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/happy-20th-birthday-ec2-you-beautiful-disaster.md" taxonomy_shows: - "Last Week In AWS Podcast" --- 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 August 31st, with Corey Quinn. **Links:** - [AWS Lambda functions now support full IAM resource-based policies](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/aws-lambda-full-iam-resource-based-policies/) - [AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) now supports budget controls and finding revalidation](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/aws-security-agent/) - [AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Cisco Security Platform and Netskope](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/secrets-manager-cisco-netskope/) - [Automating filtered Cost and Usage Report exports with AWS Data Exports](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/automating-filtered-cost-and-usage-report-exports-with-aws-data-exports/) - [AWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-glue-6-0-now-available-with-30-lower-price-and-full-apache-iceberg-v3-support/) - [Happy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/happy-20th-birthday-amazon-ec2/) - [I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI.](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/workplace/amazon-svp-ai-tools-employees-careers) - [AWS and DuckLabs: Building the future of analytics together](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/aws-and-ducklabs-building-the-future-of-analytics-together/) - [State of Kansas modernizes mainframe file transfer using AWS Transfer Family](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/state-of-kansas-modernizes-mainframe-file-transfer-using-aws-transfer-family/) - [Five AWS security bulletins, zero AWS-side fixes](https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/rss/2026-086-aws/#security-roundup) View Full Transcript Hide Full Transcript ## You might also like [More Podcast Episodes](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/) ### [London Gets an AZ, You Get an Outage](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/london-gets-an-az-you-get-an-outage/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 08.24.2026 6 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/london-gets-an-az-you-get-an-outage/) ### [The Week AWS Explained Its Own Error Messages](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-week-aws-explained-its-own-error-messages/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 08.17.2026 6 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-week-aws-explained-its-own-error-messages/) ### [DynamoDB Does Vectors Now, Because Of Course It Does](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/dynamodb-does-vectors-now-because-of-course-it-does/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 08.10.2026 9 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/dynamodb-does-vectors-now-because-of-course-it-does/)