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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