About this episode

This episode covers the latest AWS updates and features announced during the week of July 20th.

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

People in this episode

Host: Corey Quinn

Topics covered

• AWS updates
• cloud computing
• technology news
• AI protection
• serverless computing
• data management

Keywords

• AWS
• Amazon CloudWatch
• Amazon Cognito
• Amazon GuardDuty
• AWS Lambda
• Amazon S3
• Amazon SQS
• AI workload protection
• serverless compute
• DynamoDB

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon

Products: Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon Cognito, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Organizations, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Lambda MicroVMs, AWS Lambda Managed Instances, Amazon DynamoDB

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