--- title: "The re:Invent Stragglers" id: "14847" type: "podcast" slug: "the-reinvent-stragglers" published_at: "2024-12-16T12:00:00+00:00" modified_at: "2026-05-17T00:03:47+00:00" url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-reinvent-stragglers/" markdown_url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-reinvent-stragglers.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 December 16th, 2024, with Corey Quinn. **Links:** - [Amazon Bedrock Guardrails reduces pricing by up to 85%](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-reduces-pricing-85-percent) - [Amazon CloudWatch now provides centralized visibility into telemetry configurations](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-cloudwatch-provides-centralized-visibility-telemetry-configurations) - [Amazon EC2 F2 instances, featuring up to 8 FPGAs, are generally available](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-ec2-f2-instances-8-fpgas/) - [Amazon SES now offers Global Endpoints for multi-region sending resilience](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-ses-global-endpoints-multiregion-sending-resilience) - [AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now includes Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/aws-toolkit-visual-studio-code-cloudwatch-logs-live-tail/) - [Accelerate your AWS Graviton adoption with the AWS Graviton Savings Dashboard](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/accelerate-your-aws-graviton-adoption-with-the-aws-graviton-savings-dashboard/) - [Capture data changes while restoring an Amazon DynamoDB table](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/capture-data-changes-while-restoring-an-amazon-dynamodb-table/) - [Understand the benefits of physical replication in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Blue/Green Deployments](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/understand-the-benefits-of-physical-replication-in-amazon-rds-for-postgresql-blue-green-deployments/) - [How AWS sales uses Amazon Q Business for customer engagement](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/how-aws-sales-uses-amazon-q-business-for-customer-engagement/) - [AWS Network Firewall Geographic IP Filtering launch](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-network-firewall-geographic-ip-filtering-launch/) - [Issue with DynamoDB local - CVE-2022-1471](https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2024-014/) 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/)