London Gets an AZ, You Get an Outage

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 24th, with Corey Quinn.

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AWS CloudShell now includes a built-in visual file editorAWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports third-party models on Amazon BedrockAWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) RegionAWS Billing and Cost Management Introduces Managed Dashboards for Instant Cloud Financial VisibilityIn the works: AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São PauloAmazon Linux default SSM parameter will now track the latest kernelIntroducing public preview runtimes on AWS Lambda, starting with Node.js 26 and Python 3.15AWS and Amazon WorkSpaces recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scaleAWS Network Firewall now supports rule hit countUpdates to your AWS Sign-In experienceFour AWS Security Bulletins in One August Week