---
title: "Transform Away, as AWS Reverses Course"
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type: "podcast"
slug: "transform-away-as-aws-reverses-course"
published_at: "2025-05-19T10:00:00+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-05-17T00:03:42+00:00"
url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/transform-away-as-aws-reverses-course/"
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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 May 19th, with Corey Quinn.

**Links:**

- [Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports resource exclusion](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/05/amazon-vpc-reachability-analyzer-resource-exclusion)
- [AWS announces new AWS Data Transfer Terminal location in the San Francisco Bay Area](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/05/aws-data-transfer-terminal-san-francisco-bay-area/)
- [Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/accelerate-ci-cd-pipelines-with-the-new-aws-codebuild-docker-server-capability/)
- [Accelerate the modernization of Mainframe and VMware workloads with AWS Transform](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/accelerate-the-modernization-of-mainframe-and-vmware-workloads-with-aws-transform/)
- [New Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to accelerate AI innovations](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-p6-b200-instances-powered-by-nvidia-blackwell-gpus-to-accelerate-ai-innovations/)
- [Introducing Amazon Q Developer in Amazon OpenSearch Service](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/introducing-amazon-q-developer-in-amazon-opensearch-service/)
- [Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights applied in real scenarios](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-cloudwatch-database-insights-applied-in-real-scenarios/)
- [Cost-effective AI image generation with PixArt-Σ inference on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/cost-effective-ai-image-generation-with-pixart-%CF%83-inference-on-aws-trainium-and-aws-inferentia/)
- [United Airlines implement enterprise-wide resilience program with AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/united-airlines-implement-enterprise-wide-resilience-program-with-aws/)
- [Bringing more to the table: How Amazon S3 Tables rapidly delivered new capabilities in the first 5 months](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/bringing-more-to-the-table-how-amazon-s3-tables-rapidly-delivered-new-capabilities-in-the-first-5-months/)
- [Understanding Amazon S3 client-side encryption options](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/understanding-amazon-s3-client-side-encryption-options/)

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