AWS Morning Brief
613 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 12 hours 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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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...
SageMaker Podcast HealthOmics
August 21, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutes - 8.84 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of August 21, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Corey is performing a live Q&A next month; submit your questions here! Amazon Polly launches new Gulf Arabic male NTTS voice AWS HealthOmics supports cross-account sharing of omics analytics stores New – Amazon EC2 M7a General Purpose Instances Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors Amazon OpenSearch Serverless expands support for larger workloads and collections Reduce Lambda cold start times: migr...
Dunking on Robots For InfoSec Clout
August 17, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 5.52 MBLast week in security news: Cloudonaut has an overview of AWS's security monitoring services, Chris Farris talks about Defining the Sensitive IAM Actions, What’s new in the world of tools, and more! Links: Cloudonaut has an overview of AWS's security monitoring services A deep exploration into how you can really screw up integrating GitHub with AWS. Chris Farris talks about Defining the Sensitive IAM Actions. AWS Security Profile: Get to know the AWS Identity Solutions team C...
The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill
August 16, 2023 14:30 - 10 minutes - 14.9 MBAWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of August 16, 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-amazon-prime-day-2023-aws-bill/ 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 Core...
A Call to aRNs
August 14, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutes - 8.23 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of August 14, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon's approach to RTO Amazon Interactive Video Service announces Real-Time Streaming Amazon MSK Serverless expands availability to three additional AWS Regions Amazon VPC now supports primary IPv6 address on an elastic network interface AWS Artifact launches email notifications Announcing AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault (Preview) Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is now generally available Netw...
Cloud Security Has a Good Week
August 10, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 5.13 MBLast week in security news: People are still discovering some effects of the latest Azure security breach, Introducing the first AWS Security Heroes, How to Receive Alerts When Your IAM Configuration Changes, and more! Links: Following the latest Azure breach, the CEO of Tenable says they can see banking customer credentials even now. Introducing the first AWS Security Heroes How to Receive Alerts When Your IAM Configuration Changes Perform continuous vulnerability scanning of...
AWS Begins Charging For Public IPv4 Addresses
August 09, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutes - 7.27 MBAWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of August 8, 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/breaking-aws-begins-charging-for-public-ipv4-addresses/ 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.lastweekina...
EC2's Weird Flex
August 07, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutes - 8.59 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of August 7, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: In Amazon's earnings call, Andy Jassy said that every Amazon team is working on Generative AI Amazon Route 53 adds support for 14 additional Top-Level Domains AWS NAT Gateway is now available in the AWS US West Phoenix Local Zone Amazon EBS announces up to 128 volume attachments per EC2 instance Introducing Amazon EC2 M7i-flex and M7i instances Amazon EventBridge Scheduler adds schedule deletion after...
Azure's Customer Contempt
August 03, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 4.85 MBLast week in security news: Patch your Ubuntu cloud workloads, Azure faces backlash following that stolen Microsoft signing key, IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper adds support for OS certificate stores, and more! Links: You almost certainly want to patch your Ubuntu cloud workloads If you care about what that stolen Microsoft signing key was capable of, Azure really wishes you would stop asking Senator Wyden is calling for Azure to be held responsible. In a frantic scramble,...
Just a Generative AI Company
July 31, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutes - 10.6 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of July 31, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links: The new Amazon Chime 5 on Windows, macOS, and web is coming soon - Amazon Chime Help Center Access and Query are now generally available for Amazon Managed Blockchain AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.11 AWS Entity Resolution: Match and Link Related Records from Multiple Applications and Data Stores New – Amazon EC2 P5 Instances Powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs for Accelerating Generative A...
Protect Azure DevOps secrets? What a novel idea!
July 27, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 4.7 MBLast week in security news: A Guide to S3 Logging, Optimize AWS Config for AWS Security Hub, Amazon Told Drivers Not to Worry About In-Van Surveillance Cameras. Now Footage Is Leaking Online, and More! Links: Guide to S3 Logging Good on JumpCloud for disclosing a breach by some state-backed APT hacking group, but I learned about it from this article, and I'm a JumpCloud customer. Charlie Bel issued a security roadmap for Microsoft: Protect Azure DevOps secrets is the first item...
Space Heaters Plus DNS Equals Cloud
July 24, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutes - 9.11 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of July 24 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports workflows triggered by GitHub pull Amazon S3 Inventory can include ACLs as object metadata in inventory reports Amazon SNS can now deliver mobile push notifications in twelve new regions Introducing Analytics on Amazon Lex AWS Mainframe Modernization service is now PCI DSS Compliant Best Practices for Developing an AWS Co-Sell Program Amazon Route 53 Resolver Now Av...
The Logging Tax Auditor
July 20, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 4.65 MBLast week in security news: An Amazon senior security engineer was indicted in a $9M digital currency heist, Microsoft had one heck of a breach, this week’s S3 Bucket Negligence Award, and more! Links: A write-up of someone's experience going through the publicly available flAWS 1&2 labs Signs of the recent Microsoft breach in your account are tied to an enhanced level of license. An Amazon senior security engineer was indicted in a $9M digital currency heist A far-right publis...
It's Extremely Likely You Should Not Use GovCloud
July 19, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutes - 7.95 MBAWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of July 19, 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/its-extremely-likely-you-should-not-use-govcloud/ 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 ...
GitHub Actions Done Smartly
July 17, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 5.4 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of July 17, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Bullying ChatGPT into ranking the US Presidents by absorbency AWS CodeBuild now supports GitHub Actions AWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops in Lambda functions AWS Fault Injection Simulator supports chaos engineering experiments on Amazon EKS Pods AWS announces inaugural State and Local Government Champions
Avoiding a Git Landmine
July 13, 2023 10:00 - 2 minutes - 3.75 MBLast week in security news: A deep dive into the DomainNetworks Snail Mail Scam by Krebs on Security, Tailscale is putting their terms and conditions on GitHub, The Tool/ Lesson of the Week, and more! Links: A deep dive into who's behind the DomainNetworks Snail Mail Scam by Krebs on Security. Tailscale is putting its terms and conditions on GitHub and invites users to subscribe to see diffs instead of legalese. Three ways to accelerate incident response in the cloud: insights f...
Extracting Revenue and Also Teeth
July 10, 2023 10:00 - 4 minutes - 6.3 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of July 10, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Last week I railed against what appeared to be AWS Transfer Family creating a new logging format. Last Week in AWS Job Board Amazon CloudWatch now supports dashboard variables Amazon DynamoDB now simplifies and lowers the cost of handling failed conditional writes Mountpoint for Amazon S3 adds support for creating new files AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store increases API throughput limit Announcing...
The Horrible Game That Inspired My Bank
July 06, 2023 10:00 - 2 minutes - 3.2 MBLast week in security news: The Password Game, Customer Compliance Guides Now Available on AWS Artifact, The Tool of the Week, and more! Links: The Password Game LastPass has apparently locked customers out due to MFA resets. Customer Compliance Guides now available on AWS Artifact Tool of the Week: findmytakeover
S3 Is Not a Backup (Replay)
July 05, 2023 14:30 - 5 minutes - 7.83 MBAWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of July 5, 2023. 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 Duckbill Group Apply to work with Corey and the Duckbill Group to help lower your AWS bill...
Amazon Basics Ohio
July 03, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 4.28 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of July 3, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS Lambda simplifies copying environment variables in the console code editor What is a spam trap and why you should care? How we learned to program with atoms in 24 hours flat Running an SSH server on AWS RoboMaker New training series: Starting your Career with AWS Cloud AWS to remove 62,000-message Simple Email Service 'always free' tier from August 2023 AWS continues to invest in Ohio The INFORM ...
Infosec Brain Worms
June 29, 2023 10:00 - 2 minutes - 4.11 MBLast week in security news: 'Muddled Libra' Uses Oktapus-Related Smishing to Target Outsourcing Firms, Issue with AWS Directory Service EnableRoleAccess, S3 buckets being used in attacks on npm packages, and more! Links: This collection of best practices for managing root users at scale in AWS is worth a read 'Muddled Libra' Uses Oktapus-Related Smishing to Target Outsourcing Firms. 1Health is this week's winner of the S3 Bucket Negligence Award Barracuda advises customers to r...
Amazon Calls Down Regulatory Lightning
June 26, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutes - 7.85 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of June 26, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: 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 supp...
re:Inforce and fwd:cloudsec with Scott Piper
June 22, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutes - 10.4 MBLast week in security news: Videos from fwd:cloudsec are now available on YouTube, AWS announces AWS Payment Cryptography, Amazon CodeGuru Security is now available in preview, and more! Links: There was lots of great content presented at fwd:cloudsec. The day-long videos are up on YouTube. You can use the schedule to help find the talks you're interested in. In contrast to AWS's "Shared Responsibility Model", I appreciate GCP's "Shared Fate Model" where they put their own skin ...
FTC Request, Answered: How Cloud Providers Do Business
June 21, 2023 14:30 - 13 minutes - 18.7 MBAWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of June 21, 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/ftc-request-answered-how-cloud-providers-do-business 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.c...
Guest Host for re:Inforce Week - Scott Piper!
June 20, 2023 10:00 - 4 minutes - 5.63 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of June 20th, 2023 with Scott Piper filling in for Corey Quinn. Links: AWS announces scripts to bulk updates policies per new AWS Billing and Cost Management permissions Amazon QuickSight now supports APIs to automate and accelerate assets deployment Amazon Rekognition improves face search accuracy with user vectors AWS Config supports recording exclusions by resource type Falcon 40B foundation model from TII available on SageMaker JumpStart A...
Confused DevOps Professional
June 15, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutes - 7.05 MBLast week in security news: CloudFlare had a Confused Deputy Vulnerability, Moving Away from IAM Identity Center, AWS KMS now supports importing asymmetric and HMAC keys, and more! Links: CloudFlare had a Confused Deputy Vulnerability As I move away from IAM Identity Center, I find it interesting that a lot of folks I respect are doing similar things. I was going to drag this otherwise awesome article disclosing the vulnerability they located within AWS CDK's eks.Cluster compon...
The Leeches of AWS
June 12, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutes - 10.8 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of June 12, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports selective start or stop ingestion of CloudTrail events AWS Glue for Ray is now generally available AWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 3.2 AWS Mainframe Modernization service is now HIPAA eligible Announcing AWS Snowblade for U.S Department of Defense JWCC AWS Trusted Advisor adds new checks for Amazon EFS Announcing the general availability of AWS Database Migration Ser...
A Hole in the S3 Buckets
June 08, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutes - 7.18 MBLast week in security news: Thinkst Canary's Thinkstscapes, Multiple S3 Bucket Negligence Awards, Credit Card Payment Processing on AWS, and more! Links: Thinkst Canary's Thinkstscapes It's been a while since we've seen a strong, confirmed S3 Bucket Negligence Award, but Toyota has a massive one dating back a decade. Oof, looks like Google's CloudSQL product had a vulnerability that would allow an attacker to escalate to GCP control plane permissions. Holy... Legion malware exp...
17 Final Ways to Run Containers on AWS
June 07, 2023 14:30 - 9 minutes - 13 MBAWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of June 7, 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/17-final-ways-to-run-containers/ 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 t...
Rated R for Ridiculousness
June 05, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 4.62 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of June 5, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Corey is off to Washington DC tomorrow for the Public Sector summit. If you're in town, he’s hosting a drink up at Highline RxR from 6-8 PM tomorrow (Tuesday) evening. Let him buy you a drink! AWS Pricing Calculator now offers visibility of point in time cost estimations Invoice Summary is now available Optimize your x86-based Amazon EC2 Workloads New – AWS DMS Serverless: Automatically Provisions and S...
The Wages of TLS
June 01, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 4.93 MBLast week in security news: Faster AWS cloud connections with TLS 1.3, Belkin is crappy in many ways, the Tool of the Week, and more! Links: Amazon bought Pillpack, since they wanted to get into being our pharmacy. Now Pillpack reports a data breach affecting more than 19,000 people. Belkin is crappy in many ways AWS partners bring choice of temporary elevated access capabilities to IAM Identity Center Exclude cipher suites at the API gateway using a Network Load Balancer secur...
Batman's Customer Testimonials
May 30, 2023 10:00 - 2 minutes - 4.22 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of May 30, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Bloomberg reported this week that I referred to AWS's hyped generative AI offerings that nobody I know has been able to access as vaporware Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL improves availability of read replicas AWS Copilot announces Static Site pattern to host single-page web applications Developing a serverless Slack app using AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda How Broadridge used Amazon Managed Blockchain to ...
Bad Behavior And Doing Things Right
May 25, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 5.55 MBLast week in security news: The ex-Ubiquiti engineer who stole a giant pile of their data gets a six year prison term, Bitbucket will be updating their SSH host keys, AWS Reported a GuardDuty Finding Issue, and more! Links: The ex-Ubiquiti engineer who stole a giant pile of their data gets a six year prison term Bitbucket will be updating their SSH host keys Google has decided to free up inactive accounts after two years. Okay, that's their policy, but then they have the audaci...
A Hidden Serverless Peril
May 24, 2023 14:30 - 7 minutes - 10 MBWant to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/a-hidden-serverless-peril 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...
RedShift Costs a Peloton
May 22, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 4.96 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of May 22, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Corey is speaking at Tailscale Up in San Francisco next week; his talk is called "The Managed NAT Gateway Time Machine" AWS announces Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized AWS Cost Categories now supports “Usage Type” dimension Retiring the AWS Documentation on GitHub Peloton embraces Amazon Redshift to unlock the power of data during changing times Motivations for migration to Amazon DynamoDB Neo Financial a...
SCPs Are Not For Me..s?
May 18, 2023 10:00 - 2 minutes - 3.36 MBLast week in security news: Amazon CloudFront announces one-click security protections, SCPkit helps you manage your SCPs, A walk through AWS Verified Access policies, and more! Links: Aetonix was nominated for a potential S3 Bucket Negligence Award Google has launched its Passkey implementation A story about MSI leaking its own signing keys Kentik once again has a marvelously unhinged video that you're going to want to watch. This AWS IAM Wishlist is a great place to start if...
EC2 Wars 1: The Phantom NAT Gateway
May 15, 2023 10:00 - 4 minutes - 6.09 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of May 15, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Introducing Amazon EC2 I4g storage-optimized instances Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports pgvector for simplified ML model integration Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) is now available in two additional AWS Regions Private Access to the AWS Management Console is generally available AWS Systems Manager now allows customers to optimize the compute costs of their applications Introducing Cedar, an...
Humoring the Parenthetical
May 11, 2023 10:00 - 2 minutes - 3.75 MBLast week in security news: Containing Compromised EC2 Credentials Without (Hopefully) Breaking Things, How to scan your AWS Lambda functions with Amazon Inspector, AWS IAM Actions, And More! Links: The parenthetical in Containing Compromised EC2 Credentials Without (Hopefully) Breaking Things says it all. Amazon S3 now applies two security best practices to all new buckets by default How to scan your AWS Lambda functions with Amazon Inspector AWS IAM Actions
My 9 Favorite Things About AWS
May 10, 2023 14:30 - 7 minutes - 9.96 MBAWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of May 10, 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/9-things-I-love-about-aws 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? Fol...
Digital Home Depot
May 08, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutes - 8.64 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of May 8, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Announcing Provisioned Capacity for Amazon Athena Amazon EFS Replication is now available in all AWS Regions Amazon Redshift launches ra3.xlplus instances in additional Middle East, Europe and Asia Pacific Regions AWS Compute Optimizer now supports filtering by tags AWS Console Mobile Application launches push notifications Announcing AWS User Notifications general availability Process price transparen...
A Quiet But Bad Week
May 04, 2023 10:00 - 2 minutes - 3.2 MBLast week in security news: Tailscale now offers network flow logs, Google had a GhostToken flaw, AWS reported an issue with IAM supporting multiple MFA devices, and more! Links: Tailscale now offers network flow logs Google had a GhostToken flaw that let attackers backdoor Google accounts. The folks at SADA found a major bug in Google Cloud; apparently it had the potential to expose the private keys for Google Cloud Service Accounts Issue With IAM Supporting Multiple MFA Devic...
Implementing Search For Google Docs in Google Docs
May 01, 2023 10:00 - 4 minutes - 5.75 MBAWS Morning Brief for the week of May 1, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Condolences to my AWS friends affected by last week's layoffs; if I can help, please let me know. Amazon CloudWatch Logs data protection is now available in all AWS Commercial Regions AWS Firewall Manager adds support for multiple administrators AWS Systems Manager now supports AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) applications Working with percolators in Amazon OpenSearch Service AWS Lambda now supports Jav...
Shrieking Like a Toddler
April 27, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 4.47 MBLast week in security news: Dealing with Ransomware in the Cloud, Pen Testing AWS, How to prioritize IAM Access Analyzer findings, and more! Links: Last Week in AWS job board AWS had two (minor) Cross-Tenant Vulnerabilities within AWS App Runner. Some company called Invictus has practical experience dealing with ransomware in the cloud Chris Farris has a post on Pen Testing AWS. Dark Reading posits that Security Is a Revenue Booster, Not a Cost Center. An Attacker's Perspect...
Why AWS Might Be the Next Backbone Provider
April 26, 2023 14:30 - 5 minutes - 8.07 MBAWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of April 26, 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-aws-might-be-the-next-backbone-provider 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...