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 AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 4th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. 

• Amazon Aurora MySQL database clusters now support up to 256 TiB of storage volume 
• Introducing v2 of Powertools for AWS Lambda (Java)
• Introducing Extended Support for Amazon ElastiCache version 4 and version 5 for Redis OSS
• Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available 
• AWS Lambda response streaming now supports 200 MB response payloads
• How Zapier runs isolated tasks on AWS Lambda and upgrades functions at scale
• Amazon Application Recovery Controller now supports Region switch
• Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6f instances with fractional GPUs
• Amazon Promotes Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, Unveils 17th Leadership Principle
• Amazon CloudFront introduces new origin response timeout controls
• Optimize traffic costs of Amazon MSK consumers on Amazon EKS with rack awareness
• Amazon Bedrock now available in the US West (N. California) Region
• New AWS whitepaper: AWS User Guide to Financial Services Regulations and Guidelines in Australia 
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds AWS Lambda functions as notification targets for lifecycle hooks