AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 17th, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Amazon EC2 introduces application status checks
• AWS IAM Identity Center supports one-click multi-Region option for new organization instances
• Amazon S3 adds additional policy details to access denied error messages
• AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Jenkins and SonarQube
• Burst to Region: Overflow AWS Outposts workloads to Amazon EC2
• Designing for failure: Building resilient systems on AWS
• Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work
• Introducing the next-generation AWS VPN Client with CLI support and admin controls
• AWS Certificate Manager will discontinue email validation to prove domain validation for certificates
• How AWS IAM role manager rethinks the starting point for IAM roles
• How to authenticate customers during chat with Amazon Connect Customer
• How WeatherBug reduced storage costs by 80% using Amazon S3 Storage Lens and Kiro CLI
• Introducing the new AWS Cloud Quest: AI-powered practice, hands-on building, and a path to official AWS badges
• Two bulletins, one CVE, and Base64 bites C++