Catching Up, Cashing In

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 20th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Location Service Introduces New Map Styling Features for Enhanced Customization AWS Resource Explorer launches immediate resource discovery within a Region AWS SAM CLI adds Finch support, expanding local development tool options for serverless applications Simplified model access in Amazon Bedrock Amazon EC2 now supports CPU options optimization for license-included instances Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones: Create instant copies of your EBS volumes Optimizing document AI and structured outputs by fine-tuning Amazon Nova Models and on-demand inference Introducing URL and host header rewrite with AWS Application Load Balancers New Amazon EKS Auto Mode features for enhanced security, network control, and performance Monitor, analyze, and manage capacity usage from a single interface with Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager Performance optimization strategies for MySQL on Amazon RDS AWS re:Invent 2025: Reimagining customer experience with Amazon AWS Deprecates Two Dozen Services (Most of Which You’ve Never Heard Of) A FinOps Guide to Comparing Containers and Serverless Functions for Compute Announcing vector search for Amazon ElastiCache AWS Post-Event Summaries