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title: "SREcon, SLOs, and Step Functions are the new Lambda"
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published_at: "2025-03-24T10:00:00+00:00"
modified_at: "2025-11-07T15:30:46+00:00"
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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.

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## Episode Summary

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 24th, with Corey Quinn.

## Episode Show Notes & Transcript

**Links:**

- [AWS Client VPN increases authorization rules and route quotas](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/03/aws-client-vpn-authorization-rules-route-quotas)
- [Announcing the New AWS Wickr Admin Console](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/03/new-aws-wickr-admin-console)
- [AWS announces the next generation of Amazon Connect where powerful AI improves every customer interaction](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/03/next-generation-amazon-connect-ai-improves-customer-interaction)
- [Manage SLO exclusion time windows using CloudWatch Application Signals](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/03/slo-exclusion-time-windows-cloudwatch-application-signals/)
- [Handling billions of invocations – best practices from AWS Lambda](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/handling-billions-of-invocations-best-practices-from-aws-lambda/)
- [Visually build telephony applications with AWS Step Functions](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/messaging-and-targeting/visually-build-telephony-applications-with-aws-step-functions/)
- [Corey is speaking at SREcon in Santa Clara!](https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon25americas)

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