--- title: "Releases of re:Invent" id: "11539" type: "podcast" slug: "releases-of-reinvent" published_at: "2021-12-06T12:00:00+00:00" modified_at: "2026-05-17T00:05:20+00:00" url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/releases-of-reinvent/" markdown_url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/releases-of-reinvent.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 AWS Morning Brief (in musical form) for the week of December 6, 2021 with Corey Quinn. ## Episode Show Notes & Transcript **Releasees of re:Invent Lyrics** > AWS Backup speaks S3 > Systems Manager: RDP > Improvements have hit Control Tower > Systems Manager speaks Greengrass > Evidently's name sucks ass > (It does A/B testing by the hour) > > Streams in Kinesis > EMR and Jesus > MSK are now Serverless > Redshift is too > And this one should please you > FSx supports OpenZFS > > Make development faster > Without a disaster > Too dangerous to go alone > You might give them a slappin' > For making this happen > But please go check out HoneyComb > > Data Transfer new Free Tier > Slightly more free as in beer > So your bill is a bit less absurd > Don't use CloudWatch RUM > AWS is your chum > In the bloody sense of the word > > They can't remain nameless > Thank You to Blameless > For helping out with SRE > It goes beyond on-call > And most importantly of all > Fingers aren’t pointing at me > > DMS Fleet Advisor > The Sages get wiser > (SageMaker got features but I just don't care) > Now let’s show more respect > To our friend FSx’s > OpenZFS support if you unaware > > It impressed me a boatload > Amplify Studio's Low Code > But Amazon's scared of that phrase > Digital TwinMaker > Stuff for data lakers > OpenZFS deserves so much praise > > RoboRunner runs robots > Archive for EBS snapshots > In case all your instances crash > If your users all sin > EBS Snapshot Recycle Bin > But they likely belong in the trash > > “Cloud WAN” “Evidently” > “Private 5G” “Snow Family” > And SageMaker Ground Truth Plus > But I won't be shaming > Since the one person naming > Things well just got hit by a bus > > Thanks go to Netlify > More deadly than Jai Alai > To AWS's clear JAMstack flex > Sure you could use S3 > ACM CloudFront and Route53 > That's just Netlify with extra steps > > > CDK V2 sounds like a bust > SDKs for Swift Kotlin and Rust > Construct Hub has launched into GA > Network Analyzer for VPC > Disable ACLs in S3 > Storage admins will have a field day > > > Block regions within Control Tower > Compute optimizer bills you per picohour > Now the Snow Family speaks tape > Workspaces Web does you favors > EC2 has many more flavors > But I still go for Cherry and Grape > > You knew this was coming > Because for four years running > It's sponsored by ChaosSearch > It speaks just like Elastic > Now does SQL more drastic > If you want to spend more > Then get out of my church > > Stuff for the telecom sector > There's a new Inspector > That's sneakily powered by Snyk > Resilience Hub to fight failure > The Karpenter auto-scaler's > Either written in Go or in Greek > > So Amazon is transitioning > Thank you for listening > To all of the nonsense I say > Now I’m going home > Where I can be alone > And I’ll probably be sleeping ‘till May. 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