--- title: "The Most Expensive Toggle In The World" id: "15094" type: "podcast" slug: "the-most-expensive-toggle-in-the-world" published_at: "2025-08-11T10:00:00+00:00" modified_at: "2026-05-17T00:03:39+00:00" url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-most-expensive-toggle-in-the-world/" markdown_url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-most-expensive-toggle-in-the-world.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 11th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. **Links:** - [AWS Cloud Visibility Best Practices](https://www.wiz.io/lp/aws-cloud-visibility-best-practices-cheat-sheet?utm_source=lastweekinaws&utm_medium=paid-email&utm_campaign=FY26Q1_INB_FORM_AWS-Cloud-Visibility-Best-Practices-Cheat-Sheet&sfcid=701Py00000JvhLRIAZ&utm_term=FY26Q2-lwiaws-nl&utm_content=AWSCloudVisibility) - [This Ars article](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/enough-is-enough-i-dumped-googles-worsening-search-for-kagi/) - [AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens](https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/aws-european-sovereign-cloud-to-be-operated-by-eu-citizens) - [Amazon killing a user’s account](https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/storage/aws-deletes-10-years-software-engineer-data-cover-up) - [Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver v2: Accelerated performance and improved resource usage for Kubernetes workloads](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/mountpoint-for-amazon-s3-csi-driver-v2-accelerated-performance-and-improved-resource-usage-for-kubernetes-workloads/) - [Streamlining outbound emails with Amazon SES Mail Manager](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/messaging-and-targeting/streamlining-outbound-emails-with-amazon-ses-mail-manager/) - [AWS Lambda now supports GitHub Actions to simplify function deployment](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/08/aws-lambda-github-actions-function-deployment) - [Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 now in Amazon Bedrock](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/08/anthropic-claude-opus-4-1-amazon-bedrock/) - [Amazon CloudWatch introduces organization-wide VPC flow logs enablement](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/08/amazon-cloudwatch-organization-vpc-flow-logs-enablement) - [Understanding and Remediating Cold Starts: An AWS Lambda Perspective](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/understanding-and-remediating-cold-starts-an-aws-lambda-perspective/) - [Amazon SQS increases maximum message payload size to 1 MiB](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/08/amazon-sqs-max-payload-size-1mib/) - [OpenAI open weight models now available on AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/openai-open-weight-models-now-available-on-aws/) - [Best practices for analyzing AWS Config recording frequencies](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/best-practices-for-analyzing-aws-config-recording-frequencies/) - [Amazon EKS adds safety control to prevent accidental cluster deletion](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/08/eks-safety-control-prevent-accidental-cluster-deletion) - [AWS Console Mobile App now offers access to AWS Support](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/08/aws-console-mobile-app-now-offers-access-to-aws-support) - [Amazon EC2 now supports force terminate for EC2 instances](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/08/amazon-ec2-force-terminate-instances) - [Amazon DynamoDB adds support for Console-to-Code](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/08/amazon-dynamodb-adds-console-to-code/) - [Using generative AI for building AWS networks](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/using-generative-ai-for-building-aws-networks/) - [Simplify network connectivity using Tailscale with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/simplify-network-connectivity-using-tailscale-with-amazon-eks-hybrid-nodes/) - [Cost tracking multi-tenant model inference on Amazon Bedrock](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/cost-tracking-multi-tenant-model-inference-on-amazon-bedrock/) View Full Transcript Hide Full Transcript ## You might also like [More Podcast Episodes](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/) ### [M3 Ultra Macs, Claude Platform, and 619 New APIs Walk Into a Bar](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/m3-ultra-macs-claude-platform-and-619-new-apis-walk-into-a-bar/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 05.18.2026 7 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/m3-ultra-macs-claude-platform-and-619-new-apis-walk-into-a-bar/) ### [AI-Native Foundations and the CVEs That Love Them](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/ai-native-foundations-and-the-cves-that-love-them/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 05.11.2026 7 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/ai-native-foundations-and-the-cves-that-love-them/) ### [Bedrock Bags OpenAI, Q Developer Bags Groceries](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/bedrock-bags-openai-q-developer-bags-groceries/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 05.04.2026 9 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/bedrock-bags-openai-q-developer-bags-groceries/)