S3 Gets Vectors, CloudFront Gets SHA-256, You Get the Bill

About this episode

Corey Quinn discusses the latest AWS updates and features for the week of April 6th.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 6th, with Corey Quinn. Links : Announcing Amazon RDS for Oracle on AWS Outposts AWS Direct Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation AWS Service Availability Updates Amazon S3 Vectors expands to 17 additional AWS Regions Amazon CloudFront now supports SHA-256 for signed URLs and signed cookies Amazon CloudWatch now supports OpenTelemetry metrics in public preview Announcing compute-optimized instance bundles for Amazon Lightsail Announcing managed daemon support for Amazon ECS Managed Instances Leverage Agentic AI for Autonomous Incident Response with AWS DevOps Agent Navigating the NGINX Ingress retirement: A practical guide to migration on AWS Optimizing data transfer costs when using AWS Network Load Balancer AWS Security Agent on-demand penetration testing now generally available

People in this episode

Host: Corey Quinn

Topics covered

• AWS updates
• Cloud services
• Incident response
• Data transfer optimization
• Cloud security

Keywords

• AWS
• S3 Vectors
• CloudFront SHA-256
• CloudFormation
• OpenTelemetry
• ECS Managed Instances
• data transfer costs
• penetration testing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon RDS, AWS Outposts, AWS Direct Connect, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Amazon Lightsail, Amazon ECS

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