AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 3rd, with Corey Quinn. \

Links:

• Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs
• AWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in GA
• AWS announces aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWS
• AWS Direct Connect now supports BGP route visibility on Virtual Interfaces
• AWS IAM Identity Center extends multi-Region support to Identity Center directory
• AWS announces general availability of Policy-Based Routing on AWS Transit Gateway
• IAM Policy Simulator moves to the IAM console and adds additional capabilities
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughput
• Accelerate Spark on EMR Serverless with larger workers and shuffle-optimized disks
• Installing and updating the AWS CLI with single-line commands
• Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS
• How Amazon CloudFront delivered traffic for the FIFA World Cup 2026
• Amazon identifies North Korean hacker group behind open-source supply chain attacks
• AWS KMS or AWS CloudHSM: Choose the right key management solution
• AWS Shield Advanced is embracing the AWS WAF Anti-DDoS managed rule group: What changes and how to prepare
• Secure your npm and pip package updates in Amazon Linux
• AWS security bulletins: patching the patch