A Fantastic Service Gets Better, Somehow

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 21st, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

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• Amazon EBS now provides visibility into EBS volume initialization status
• The Amazon S3 console now displays an external access summary for all your buckets
• Amazon S3 Tables reduce compaction costs by up to 90%
• AWS API MCP Server now available 
• AWS Cost Anomaly Detection improves accuracy with model enhancements
• AWS Price List API now supports four new Query Filters
•  Introducing AWS AI League
• Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for AWS Price List
• Amazon S3 Metadata now supports metadata for all your S3 objects 
• AWS Free Tier update: New customers can get started and explore AWS with up to $200 in credits
• Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Securely deploy and operate AI agents at any scale (preview)
• Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors: First cloud storage with native vector support at scale (preview)
• Under the hood: Amazon EKS ultra scale clusters
• Proven Practices for Succeeding with a Multicloud Strategy
• Accenture scales video analysis with Amazon Nova and Amazon Bedrock Agents
• Coming soon: Exam update and new name for cloud operations certification