Amazon Calls Down Regulatory Lightning
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 26, 2023 with Corey Quinn. 

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• The FTC comment period about the business of cloud computing) ended
• Amazon warehouse practices are now the focus of a senate probe)
• The FTC is suing Amazon for its Prime enrollment dark patterns)
• Amazon’s iRobot acquisition is now the subject of an EU investigation)
• The launch of Amazon Clinic is being delayed after the senate asked some hard questions)
• Announcing Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances) 
• AWS Lambda supports starting from timestamp for Kafka event sources)
• AWS Step Functions launches Versions and Aliases) 
• AWS Transfer Family announces structured JSON log format)
• 5 Stages to Building a Successful Partner Practice with AWS)
• Say Hello to 176 AWS Competency, Service Delivery, Service Ready, and MSP Partners Added or Renewed in May)
• How GoDaddy Implemented a Multi-Region Event-Driven Platform at Scale)
• New Amazon EC2 C7gn Instances: Graviton3E Processors and Up To 200 Gbps Network Bandwidth)
• For actual technical depth, my thanks to David Cuthbert in the Last Week in AWS Slack Community) for surfacing this AnandTech article).
• Stream VPC Flow Logs to Datadog via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose)
• Creating real-time flood alerts with the cloud)
• Use AWS Private Certificate Authority to issue device attestation certificates for Matter)
• Should I use the hosted UI or create a custom UI in Amazon Cognito?) - Trick question, you should use recurring Last Week in AWS sponsor FusionAuth) instead. 
• Coming soon: updates to AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam)
• How I achieved all six specialty AWS Certifications on first attempt)
• How to win a $5 Amazon Gift Card, just by signing up for the Amazon News newsletter)