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Episode729

You Owe Your Country’s GDP to AWS

07.20.2026
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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.

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Episode Show Notes

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 20th, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

  • Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces intelligent tiering for storage
  • Amazon Cognito now supports importing users with password hashes
  • Introducing Amazon GuardDuty AI Protection for AWS AI workloads
  • AWS Organizations now applies account departure security controls by default for new organizations created via AWS Organizations console
  • AWS Lambda announces self-managed code storage
  • Amazon S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA
  • Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale
  • Announcing Lambda MicroVMs: serverless compute environments with VM-level isolation and near-instant startup
  • Eliminating Java cold starts with AWS Lambda Managed Instances
  • Introducing open source Bulk Executor for Amazon DynamoDB
  • Automating CIDR expansion: Reducing IP exhaustion downtime
  • Setting up Layer 2 Networking on Amazon EC2
  • Security Hub adds AI workload protection and multicloud support for Microsoft Azure
  • Five CVEs and the Agentic AI Security Reckoning

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