--- title: "The Week AWS Explained Its Own Error Messages" id: "15421" type: "podcast" slug: "the-week-aws-explained-its-own-error-messages" published_at: "2026-08-17T10:30:00+00:00" modified_at: "2026-08-17T10:30:00+00:00" url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-week-aws-explained-its-own-error-messages/" markdown_url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-week-aws-explained-its-own-error-messages.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 17th, with Corey Quinn. **Links:** - [Amazon EC2 introduces application status checks](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/amazon-ec2-application-status-checks) - [AWS IAM Identity Center supports one-click multi-Region option for new organization instances](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/aws-iam-identity-center-supports-one-click-multi-region-option-new-organization-instances) - [Amazon S3 adds additional policy details to access denied error messages](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/s3-additional-policy-details-access-denied-error-messages/) - [AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Jenkins and SonarQube](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/secrets-manager-integration-jenkins-sonarqube/) - [Burst to Region: Overflow AWS Outposts workloads to Amazon EC2](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/burst-to-region-overflow-aws-outposts-workloads-to-amazon-ec2/) - [Designing for failure: Building resilient systems on AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/designing-for-failure-building-resilient-systems-on-aws/) - [Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/amazon-quick-for-microsoft-365-agentic-ai-where-you-work/) - [Introducing the next-generation AWS VPN Client with CLI support and admin controls](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/introducing-the-next-generation-aws-vpn-client-with-cli-support-and-admin-controls/) - [AWS Certificate Manager will discontinue email validation to prove domain validation for certificates](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-certificate-manager-will-discontinue-email-validation-to-prove-domain-validation-for-certificates/) - [How AWS IAM role manager rethinks the starting point for IAM roles](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-aws-iam-role-manager-rethinks-the-starting-point-for-iam-roles/) - [How to authenticate customers during chat with Amazon Connect Customer](https://receipts.lastweekinaws.com/485/309f77daff3a8c0b7833a454afff3211f71ef2373ff4b47b5974ceb705fbe7de.pdf) - [How WeatherBug reduced storage costs by 80% using Amazon S3 Storage Lens and Kiro CLI](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/how-weatherbug-reduced-storage-costs-by-80-using-amazon-s3-storage-lens-and-kiro-cli/) - [Introducing the new AWS Cloud Quest: AI-powered practice, hands-on building, and a path to official AWS badges](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/training-and-certification/introducing-the-new-aws-cloud-quest-ai-powered-practice-hands-on-building-and-a-path-to-official-aws-badges/) - [Two bulletins, one CVE, and Base64 bites C++](https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/rss/2026-079-aws/#omnibus-1786743799151) View Full Transcript Hide Full Transcript ## You might also like [More Podcast Episodes](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/) ### [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/) ### [BGP, Oracle, and Other Things That Hurt](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/bgp-oracle-and-other-things-that-hurt/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 08.03.2026 7 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/bgp-oracle-and-other-things-that-hurt/) ### [New Tools, Ancient Failures, Same Old AWS](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/new-tools-ancient-failures-same-old-aws/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 07.27.2026 8 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/new-tools-ancient-failures-same-old-aws/)