--- title: "Your Database Is a Data Lake Now, Apparently" id: "15459" type: "podcast" slug: "your-database-is-a-data-lake-now-apparently" published_at: "2026-10-05T10:30:00+00:00" modified_at: "2026-10-05T10:35:21+00:00" url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/your-database-is-a-data-lake-now-apparently/" markdown_url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/your-database-is-a-data-lake-now-apparently.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 ofOctober 5th, with Corey Quinn. **Links:** - [Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports public endpoints](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/amazon-elasticache-serverless-public-endpoints/) - [AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides billing context for your account through a new API](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/aws-billing-and-cost-management-billing-context-api/) - [Uncover blind spots in AWS data plane operations with CloudTrail Event Coverage](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/aws-cloudtrail-event-coverage/) - [AWS Service Availability Updates](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/aws-service-availability/) - [Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now lets you estimate bytes scanned before running a query](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/cloudwatch-logs-estimate-bytes-scanned/) - [AWS Budgets now supports email verification for notification subscribers](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/10/aws-budgets/) - [Running multi-day AZ evacuation drills with ARC Zonal Shift](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/running-multi-day-az-evacuation-drills-with-arc-zonal-shift/) - [Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-postgresql-now-supports-direct-querying-of-apache-iceberg-and-parquet-data-in-your-data-lake/) - [Announcing AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered intelligence to optimize your cloud environment (preview)](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-well-architected-agent-an-ai-powered-intelligence-to-optimize-your-cloud-environment-preview/) - [Introducing filtered export from Amazon DynamoDB to Amazon S3](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/introducing-filtered-export-from-amazon-dynamodb-to-amazon-s3/) - [What’s next for Research and Engineering Studio on AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/hpc/whats-next-for-research-and-engineering-studio-on-aws/) - [Routing UDP to on-premises Network Load Balancer targets](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/routing-udp-to-on-premises-network-load-balancer-targets/) - [Introducing the Dogwood Local Engine: temporal governance for agent actions](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-the-dogwood-local-engine-temporal-governance-for-agent-actions/) - [AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Demonstrating an independent operation](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-european-sovereign-cloud-demonstrating-an-independent-operation/) - [AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Demonstrating an independent operation](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-european-sovereign-cloud-demonstrating-an-independent-operation/) View Full Transcript Hide Full Transcript ## You might also like [More Podcast Episodes](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/) ### [The Week AWS Was Wrong, Not Broken](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-week-aws-was-wrong-not-broken/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 09.28.2026 6 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-week-aws-was-wrong-not-broken/) ### [T8i Instances Bursting With Mild Enthusiasm](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/t8i-instances-bursting-with-mild-enthusiasm/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 09.21.2026 4 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/t8i-instances-bursting-with-mild-enthusiasm/) ### [Lambda Slowly Becomes EC2, One Feature at a Time](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/lambda-slowly-becomes-ec2-one-feature-at-a-time-2/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 09.14.2026 4 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/lambda-slowly-becomes-ec2-one-feature-at-a-time-2/)