AWS Morning Brief
610 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsThe latest in AWS news, sprinkled with snark. Posts about AWS come out over sixty times a day. We filter through it all to find the hidden gems, the community contributions--the stuff worth hearing about! Then we summarize it with snark and share it with you--minus the nonsense.
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Get Billed For a G6
April 08, 2024 10:00 - 6 minutes - 8.37 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of April 8, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring is now generally available Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces new pricing for training tabular models Introducing AWS CodeConnections, formerly known as AWS CodeStar Connections - Amazon CloudWatch now supports cross-account anomaly detection Amazon EKS extended support for Kubernetes versions now generally Announcing AWS Deadline Cloud AWS Console Mobile Appl...
Redis Forks and Retroactive Cost Tagging
April 01, 2024 10:00 - 5 minutes - 7.23 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of April 1, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: AI recommendations for descriptions in Amazon DataZone now generally available Amazon DynamoDB Import from S3 now supports up to 50,000 Amazon S3 objects in a single bulk import Amazon Time Sync Service now supports microsecond-accurate time in US East (N. Virginia) Region AWS Billing and Cost Management Data Exports now supports AWS CloudFormation AWS Compute Optimizer introduces memory customizabili...
Cancel Recent Savings Plan Purchases
March 25, 2024 10:00 - 5 minutes - 7.23 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of March 25, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS PrivateLink Amazon WorkMail now supports Audit Logging AWS announces a 7-day window to return Savings Plans AWS CodeBuild now supports custom images for AWS Lambda compute EC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts now provide visibility into supported macOS versions Invoke AWS Lambda functions from cross-account Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Traeger Grills’s Customer Experience team dri...
A Claude 3 Haiku
March 18, 2024 10:00 - 2 minutes - 3.86 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of March 18, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon EFS now supports up to 20 GiB/s of throughput Amazon SES now offers support for headers when sending email AWS announces Aurora MySQL integration with Amazon Bedrock for Generative AI AWS Backup now supports restore testing for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive Experience up to 40% faster stack creation with AWS CloudFormation AWS Cost Categories launches a revamped user inter...
GenAI Prattlings and Actually Useful Things
March 11, 2024 10:00 - 4 minutes - 6.51 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of March 11, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: Start your Engines! Announcing the 2024 AWS DeepRacer League Accelerate no-code ML with a refreshed homepage in Amazon SageMaker Canvas AWS re:Post introduces re:Post Live How Accenture Accelerates Building a Secure Cloud Foundation Natively on AWS Accenture scored itself an S3 bucket negligence award Revolutionize Your Business with AWS Generative AI Competency Partners Amazon RDS now supports io...
Mexico Region and GenAI Open Season
March 04, 2024 11:00 - 5 minutes - 7.81 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of March 4, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon CloudFront announces availability of Embedded Points of Presence Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports IPv6 Amazon Data Firehose adds message extraction feature for decompressed CloudWatch Logs Amazon EC2 m7i.metal-24xl instance is now generally available for VMware Cloud on AWS Amazon EKS announces support for Amazon Linux 2023 AWS announces Amazon Neptune I/O-Optimized AWS Batch now offers mu...
S3: Jetsons Era Technology, Flintstones Era Billing Transparency
February 26, 2024 11:00 - 3 minutes - 5.34 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of February 26, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Incident Detection and Response now offers five minute response time for critical incidents Multiple solution tagging on ACE opportunities Introducing the .NET 8 runtime for AWS Lambda Best practices for managing Terraform State files in AWS CI/CD Pipeline Understand Amazon S3 data transfer costs by classifying requests with Amazon Athena
Managed OUs and An Intriguing IAM Hierarchical Model
February 20, 2024 11:00 - 2 minutes - 3.72 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of February 20, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Bedrock console gets a modern look-and-feel AWS Control Tower introduces APIs to register Organizational Units Build generative AI chatbots using prompt engineering with Amazon Redshift and Amazon Bedrock How to enforce creation of roles in a specific path: Use IAM role naming in hierarchy models
A Nuanced Logging Optimization Point
February 12, 2024 11:00 - 5 minutes - 7.56 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of February 12, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links: re:Invent 2023 Cost Optimization highlights that you were not expecting AWS Twitch show on cost optimization Five things to consider when choosing your cloud provider Announcing CDK Migrate: A single command to migrate to the AWS CDK Accenture creates a regulatory document authoring solution using AWS generative AI services Using one-click unsubscribe with Amazon SES How to interconnect AWS Cloud ...
A Slightly Better Free Tier
February 05, 2024 11:00 - 3 minutes - 5.09 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of February 5, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon EC2 added new price protection for attribute based instance selection AWS announces a new Local Zone in Chicago, Illinois AWS Free Tier now includes 750 hours of free Public IPv4 addresses, as charges for Public IPv4 begin Optimize costs by automating AWS Compute Optimizer recommendations A new and improved AWS CDK construct for Amazon DynamoDB tables Announcing Generative AI CDK Construct...
Armageddon! IPv6, and starting this week, blood
January 29, 2024 11:00 - 3 minutes - 4.89 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of January 29, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Billing Conductor releases account-scoped custom line items Introducing IPv6 instance bundles on Amazon Lightsail Sellers can now resell third-party professional services in AWS Marketplace The Journey to IPv6 on Amazon EKS: Foundation (Part 1) Deploy a Microsoft Teams gateway for Amazon Q, your business expert RED Camera Cloud Upload to AWS VMware’s Cloud Journey: AWS Account Management at ...
A Welcome EKS Price Hike
January 22, 2024 11:00 - 4 minutes - 6.25 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of January 22, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS CodeBuild announces support for reserved capacity AWS Config now supports 22 new resource types AWS Transfer Family provides static IP addresses for SFTP connectors GLIDE for Redis, an OSS Redis client sponsored by AWS, now available in preview ROSA with hosted control planes (HCP) is generally available How Infosys is Reimagining Enterprise Solutions with Generative AI on AWS AWS Marketplace ...
Deprecations and a long-awaited Fargate feature
January 16, 2024 11:00 - 3 minutes - 4.39 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of January 16, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Accounts discontinues the use of security challenge questions AWS CodeBuild now supports a X-Large Linux compute type Introducing Open Job Description, an open specification for portable render jobs Reducing Inference Times by 87% for Darwinbox’s Talent Search Engine Using AWS Inferentia Amazon ECS supports a native integration with Amazon EBS volumes for data-intensive workloads This is sad: AW...
NewYear, New You, Here's December in Review
January 08, 2024 11:00 - 3 minutes - 5.48 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of January 8th, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.12 Amazon EC2 Serial Console is now available in all Local Zones macOS support policy updates for the AWS CLI v2 How Transfer Family can help you build a secure, compliant managed file transfer solution
Replay: S3 as an Eternal Service
December 27, 2023 15:30 - 5 minutes - 7.63 MBAWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of December 27, 2023. This episode originally aired on March 29, 2023. Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/s3-as-an-eternal-service/ Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Buy our merch ht...
Replay: Are AWS Account IDs Sensitive Information?
December 13, 2023 15:30 - 6 minutes - 8.58 MBAWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of December 13, 2023. This episode originally aired on February 16, 2022. Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/gYJgDymP_GU?si=s5lkpRjpGSkC58v_ Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Buy our merch https://st...
Too Many Birds, Too Many Lunatics
December 11, 2023 11:00 - 2 minutes - 3.35 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of December 11, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Titan Image Generator foundation model in Amazon Bedrock now available in preview Amazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region Amazon Redshift extends SUPER data type column size support to 16 MB AWS Secrets Manager announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement Build Better Engagement using the AWS Community Engagement Flywheel: Part 1 of 3 Simplify Mod...
re:Invent 2023 Release Review
December 04, 2023 15:00 - 12 minutes - 17.7 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of December 4th, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Watch the video version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/Jm_eXNjdMl0 Check out the re:Quinnvent playlist on YouTube Help the show Share your feedback Follow wherever you get your podcasts Buy our merch What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Duckbill Group Apply to work with Corey and the Duckbill Group to help lower your AWS bill
AI Builds a re:Invent Scavenger Hunt
November 22, 2023 15:30 - 8 minutes - 11.2 MBAWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of November 22, 2023. Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/generative-ai-builds-a-reinvent-scavenger-hunt Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Buy our merch https://store.lastweekinaws.com...
Somebody's Sorry for Party Rocking
November 20, 2023 11:00 - 6 minutes - 9.23 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of November 20, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: re:Quinnvent Wednesday night drinkup at Atomic Liquors Nature Walk Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces regular expression filter pattern support for Live Tail Amazon EBS announces Snapshot Lock to protect snapshots from inadvertent or malicious deletions Amazon MSK Serverless now supports all programming languages Amazon Time Sync Service now supports microsecond-accurate time AWS CloudTrail Lake ...
Jupyter Notebooks: My Unexpected Game-Changer in Security Incident Response
November 16, 2023 11:00 - 3 minutes - 4.9 MBLast week in security news: Copilot and CodeWhisperer can in fact leak real secrets, an interesting teardown of a cloud cryptocurrency miner, the tool of the week, and more! Links: Copilot and CodeWhisperer can in fact leak real secrets. An interesting teardown of a cloud cryptocurrency miner. How to create an AMI hardening pipeline and automate updates to your ECS instance fleet How to improve your security incident response processes with Jupyter notebooks Tool of the wee...
pre:Inventing the Wheel
November 13, 2023 11:00 - 4 minutes - 6.75 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of November 13, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Show Notes: Links: Amazon Aurora Global Database for PostgreSQL now supports write forwarding Amazon SQS announces support for JSON protocol AWS Cost Management now provides purchase recommendations for Amazon MemoryDB Reserved Nodes Introducing the Generative AI Center of Excellence for AWS Partners: The Path to AI Expertise New – Block Public Sharing of Amazon EBS Snapshots New for Amazon Comprehend – ...
C-Suite Responsibility
November 09, 2023 11:00 - 2 minutes - 4.08 MBLast week in security news: The SEC has sued Soalrwinds as well as their CISO, Tracking Malicious Operations of Exposed IAM Keys, Security considerations for running containers on Amazon ECS, and more! Links: The SEC has sued Soalrwinds as well as their CISO personally CloudKeys in the Air: Tracking Malicious Operations of Exposed IAM Keys Refine permissions for externally accessible roles using IAM Access Analyzer and IAM action last accessed Security considerations for runn...
How to Stop Feeding AWS’s AI with Your Data
November 08, 2023 15:30 - 6 minutes - 8.79 MBAWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of November 8, 2023. Links AWS has been making a lot of noise about generative AI AWS's Responsible AI page AWS's Service Terms Amazon's updated management policy language Opt-Out of Amazon AI Opt-Out Terraform module Opt-Out Python script Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podca...
High Cardinality Service Usage
November 06, 2023 11:00 - 4 minutes - 6.37 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of November 6, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links Amazon Athena announces one hour reservations for Provisioned Capacity AWS Neuron adds support for Llama-2 70b model and PyTorch 2.0 Filter and Stream Logs from Amazon S3 Logging Buckets into Splunk Using AWS Lambda Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML to reserve GPU capacity for your machine learning workloads GoDaddy benchmarking results in up to 24% better price-performance for their Spark...
Check Your Email Security Please
November 02, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 4.39 MBLast week in security news: Using AWS role session tags for GitHub Actions, A summary of the Okta hack is pretty damning, IAM Roles Anywhere with an external certificate authority, and more! Links: I like this writeup of using AWS role session tags for GitHub Actions but I hate that I have to use Cognito to pull it off. This summary of the Okta hack is pretty damning. AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge: Announcing a new, independent sovereign cloud in Europe IAM Roles Anywhere wit...
AWS Jamming Generative AI Down Our Throats
October 30, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutes - 9.44 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of October 30, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Aurora MySQL includes optimizations that reduce the database restart time by up to 65% Amazon EKS adds support for customer managed IAM policies AMI Block Public Access now enabled for all new accounts and existing accounts with no public AMIs AWS Config now supports 19 new resource types AWS Marketplace announces enhanced private offer user experience for sellers AWS re:Post introduces Select...
Message Vulnerability Researchers Well
October 26, 2023 10:00 - 2 minutes - 3.82 MBLast week in security news: PR pushback from Microsoft, AWS Cloud Companion Guide for the CSA Cyber Trust Mark, and more! Links: My intense 2am conversation with MSRC a week before BlackHat AWS announces Cloud Companion Guide for the CSA Cyber Trust mark Securing generative AI: An introduction to the Generative AI Security Scoping Matrix
The New Frontier of Cloud Economics: Why AWS Costs Are a Weighty Issue
October 25, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 5.31 MBAWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of October 25, 2023. Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-new-frontier-of-cloud-economics-why-aws-costs-are-a-weighty-issue Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Buy our merch https://s...
The Pets-Not-Cattle Steer-ing Committee
October 23, 2023 10:00 - 4 minutes - 6.62 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of October 23, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links: Introducing Amazon EC2 R7i instances AWS announces Amazon Redshift integration with Visual Studio Code AWS announces member account level credit sharing preferences CloudWatch launches out-of-the-box alarm recommendations for AWS services Leapfrog from CentOS 7.9 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 with Convert2RHEL and Leapp Utilities on AWS Enhance your security posture by storing Amazon Redshift admi...
Delegate, Delegate, Delegate...
October 19, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 4.39 MBLast week in security news: Delegating permission set management and account assignment in AWS IAM Identity Center, How AWS protects customers from DDoS events, The Tip of the Week, and more! Links: Rhino Security has a two part post that talks about how they find Cognito misconfigurations Delegating permission set management and account assignment in AWS IAM Identity Center How AWS protects customers from DDoS events Now available: Building a scalable vulnerability managemen...
Cloud Institute for the Criminally Underpaid
October 16, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutes - 8.99 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of October 16, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: New Amazon CloudWatch metric monitors EC2 instance reachability to EBS volumes Announcing AWS Lambda’s support for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for outbound connections in VPC Announcing new AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) availability and performance capabilities Two billion downloads of Terraform AWS Provider shows value of IaC for infrastructure management Why purpose-built artificial intel...
Better Late Than Even Later
October 12, 2023 10:00 - 4 minutes - 6.19 MBLast week in security news: AWS Firewall Manager supports referencing of Security Groups, Secure by Design: AWS to enhance MFA requirements in 2024, You Can't Control Your Data in the Cloud, and more! Links: You Can't Control Your Data in the Cloud Chris Farris leaked 7 IAM keys in public (intentionally! Chris Farris also writes Security Hub gives me imposter syndrome Google is stuffing previously widely available security offerings into incredibly expensive paid-for tiers. AW...
The Cloud Devil You Know
October 11, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutes - 10.4 MBWant to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-cloud-devil-you-know/ Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Buy our merch https://store.lastweekinaws.com What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Du...
AWS Big Bag of Hammers
October 10, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutes - 9.45 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of October 10, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Sponsor re:Quinnvent Amazon DataZone is now generally available Amazon EC2 Hibernate now supports more operating systems Lambda test events are now available in AWS SAM CLI Simplify data transfer: Google BigQuery to Amazon S3 using Amazon AppFlow Coming November 2023: A new analysis experience on Amazon QuickSight Implement auto-increment with Amazon DynamoDB The Future of Personal Digital Record...
Email Vendor Selection Influences Security
October 05, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 4.85 MBLast week in security news: When It Comes to Email Security, The Cloud You Pick Matters, Enable external pipeline deployments to AWS Cloud by using IAM Roles Anywhere, How AWS threat intelligence deters threat actors, and more! Links: When It Comes to Email Security, The Cloud You Pick Matters Enable external pipeline deployments to AWS Cloud by using IAM Roles Anywhere Get the full benefits of IMDSv2 and disable IMDSv1 across your AWS infrastructure How AWS threat intelligenc...
Incrementally Making Massive Improvements
October 02, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 4.56 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of October 2, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Chime adds Waiting Room capability to further secure your meetings Amazon CloudFront announces security recommendations Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) supports in-place major version upgrade Amazon EC2 Serial Console now available in additional AWS Regions AWS Application Composer now supports all 1000+ AWS CloudFormation resources DynamoDB global tables is now available in a...
Cheating on your CI Tests
September 28, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 5.02 MBLast week in security news: Accelerating development with AWS CDK plugin – CfnGuardValidator, This week's S3 Bucket Negligence Award is brought to you by PwC Nigeria, The volkswagen open source tool, and more! Links: Last week I talked about AWS Management Console Access incorrectly. My thanks to Timothy Ingalls on the Last Week in AWS community Slack for flagging this for me. Gold star for you! This week's S3 Bucket Negligence Award is brought to you by PwC Nigeria. FusionAuth ...
VirtuSwap's Giant Panda Accelerato
September 25, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutes - 7.15 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of September 25, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links: Today Corey is hosting a drink-up at 6 PM in Seattle at Outer Planet Brewing. If you're in town / free, come on by; let him buy you a beer. Later this week Corey will be hosting an AMA on 9/27 @ noon PDT over on YouTube. Bring questions! Accenture Extends Generative AI Capabilities to Accelerate Adoption and Value on AWS New – Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances Built on Apple Silicon M2 Pro Mac Mini C...
Longer Sessions Are All Right By Me
September 21, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 4.94 MBLast week in security news: AWS IAM Identity Center session duration limit increases from 7 to 90 days, Access accounts with AWS Management Console PrivatAccess, A dive through using Amazon Athena in Incident Response, and more! Links: This is an esoteric Firefox/Yubikey compatibility bug that I went blindly stumbling into and has been resolved. Chris Farris has a post up about deploying AWS Backup. In preparation for re:Invent, the MGM had a massive cybersecurity issue Amazon...
Seeing the Benefits of a Cloud Career
September 18, 2023 10:00 - 4 minutes - 6.84 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of September 18, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon SNS FIFO topics now support message delivery to Amazon SQS Standard queues Announcing API Gateway console refresh Cost Anomaly Detection increases custom anomaly monitor limit to 500 Custom notifications are now available for AWS Chatbot How to Integrate Amazon CloudWatch Alarms with Atlassian Confluence Knowledge Articles Building a secure webhook forwarder using an AWS Lambda extension ...
Overscoped Role? No, It's the Children Who Are Wrong
September 14, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 5.12 MBLast week in security news: Corey reported an over-scoped role to AWS security, The bad LastPass breach got even worse, How to enforce DNS name constraints in AWS Private CA, and more! Links: I reported an over-scoped role to AWS security; the response from the SageMaker Canvas team was that it's working as intended. The bad LastPass breach that continues to get worse once again somehow got worse. Microsoft has published a rather thorough postmortem about how their signing key w...
Why Your CPU-Based Utilization Metric Is Absolute Nonsense
September 13, 2023 10:00 - 4 minutes - 6.95 MBAWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of September 13, 2023. Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/why-your-cpu-based-utilisation-metric-is-absolute-nonsense/ Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Buy our merch https://store.las...
AWS Guild Dinner & Tournament
September 11, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutes - 9.04 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of September 11, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS announces Extended Support for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases Amazon CloudWatch adds Amazon EKS control plane logs as Vended Logs Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces regular expression filter pattern syntax support As SwiftOnSecurity pointed out a week or two ago, a lot of folks can now discover firsthand just how many of their rules allow all 10* traffic Introducing Amazo...
Feeding the Snakes Barracuda
September 07, 2023 10:00 - 2 minutes - 3.64 MBLast week in security news: Barracuda thought it drove 0-day hackers out of customers’ networks, A terrific guide for getting started with AWS security research, “Zukey” or “Amazon Basics Yubikey”, and more! Links: Barracuda thought it drove 0-day hackers out of customers’ networks. A terrific guide for getting started with AWS security research. Amazon Basics Yubikey Two real-life examples of why limiting permissions works: Lessons from AWS CIRT Validate IAM policies by usin...
Degenerative AI
September 05, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutes - 7.56 MBLast Week In AWS for the week of September 4, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon QuickSight adds scheduled and programmatic export to Excel format Amazon S3 now supports multivalue answer in response to DNS queries AWS Backup now supports local time zone selections AWS Lambda Functions powered by AWS Graviton2 now available in 6 additional regions AWS Neuron adds support for Llama 2, GPT-NeoX, and SDXL generative AI models AWS Private CA launches Connector for Active ...
Everybody Owns This Podcast So Nobody Does
August 31, 2023 10:00 - 2 minutes - 3.33 MBLast week in security news: How AWS built the Security Guardians program, Network Load Balancers now support Security groups, the Tool of the week, and more! Links: David Linthicum stakes out the position that in a multi-cloud world, centralized cloud security is now a must-have. Network Load Balancers now support Security groups How AWS built the Security Guardians program, a mechanism to distribute security ownership Kubernetes Security Issues (CVE-2023-3676, CVE-2023-3893, ...
us-west-1: The Flagship Region That Isn’t
August 30, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutes - 8.56 MBAWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of August 30, 2023. Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/us-west-1-the-flagship-region-that-isn-t Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Buy our merch https://store.lastweekinaws.com What's...
AWS Wallet Extractor
August 28, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutes - 8.93 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of August 28, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Aurora Global Database introduces Global Database Failover Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached simplifies creating new clusters in the AWS Management Console Improvements to multi-account management for Amazon GuardDuty AWS Certificate Manager introduces Enterprise Controls to help govern certificate issuance AWS Cost Explorer announces support for AWS Billing Conductor AWS Microservice Extractor...
Storing Logs You Never Read
August 24, 2023 10:00 - 2 minutes - 3.47 MBLast week in security news: Short session expiration does not help security, How to use AWS Verified Access logs to write and troubleshoot access policies, This week's S3 Bucket Negligence Award, and more! Links: A UK contractor wins this week's S3 Bucket Negligence Award. What happens when a Zero Day and Access Keys Collide in the Cloud. Short session expiration does not help security How to use AWS Verified Access logs to write and troubleshoot access policies IAMbic purport...