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AWS 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-huntNever miss an episodeJoin the Last Week in AWS newsletterSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsHelp the showLeave a reviewShare your feedbackSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsBuy our merch https://store.lastweekinaws.comWhat's Corey up to?Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig)See our recent work at the Duckbill GroupApply to work with Corey and the Duckbill Group to help lower your AWS bill

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 20, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:re:QuinnventWednesday night drinkup at Atomic LiquorsNature WalkAmazon 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 languagesAmazon Time Sync Service now supports microsecond-accurate time AWS CloudTrail Lake announces new pricing option optimized for flexible retentionAWS Cost Explorer now provides more historical and granular dataAWS announces IPv6 tiered VPCs and subnetsAWS Lambda console now features a single pane view of metrics, logs, and tracesAnnouncing Research and Engineering Studio on AWS Announcing PartyRock, an Amazon Bedrock PlaygroundAmazon Bedrock now provides access to Meta’s Llama 2 Chat 13B model Happy anniversary, Amazon CloudFront: 15 years of evolution and internet advancementsNew – Multi-account search in AWS Resource ExplorerIntroducing instance maintenance policy for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling The serverless attendee’s guide to AWS re:Invent 2023 Amazon EKS and Kubernetes sessions at AWS re:Invent 2023 Optimize AZ traffic costs using Amazon EKS, Karpenter, and Istio EditorialJoin us for a week of AWS Amplify launches 

Topics include leaking real secrets with Copilot and CodeWhisperer, a cloud cryptocurrency miner teardown, creating an AMI hardening pipeline, automating updates for ECS instance fleet, improving security incident response with Jupyter notebooks, and the tool of the week aws-firewall-factory for WAF usage.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 13, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Show Notes:Links:Amazon Aurora Global Database for PostgreSQL now supports write forwardingAmazon SQS announces support for JSON protocolAWS Cost Management now provides purchase recommendations for Amazon MemoryDB Reserved NodesIntroducing the Generative AI Center of Excellence for AWS Partners: The Path to AI ExpertiseNew – Block Public Sharing of Amazon EBS SnapshotsNew for Amazon Comprehend – Toxicity DetectionAWS CodeBuild adds support for AWS Lambda compute modeAn Overview of Bulk Sender Changes at Yahoo/GmailCreating a correction of errors documentKnow Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS Management ConsoleUnhoused individuals gain shelter, prove their identity using AWS-powered solution KiipHow VMware partnered with AWS to nurture a culture of sustainabilityHow to Stop Feeding AWS’s AI With Your Data

The podcast discusses the recent lawsuit against SolarWinds and their CISO by the SEC, the ElectraLeak campaign targeting exposed IAM credentials, and security considerations for running containers on Amazon ECS.

The podcast discusses how AWS trains AI models on user data and the challenges of opting out. It highlights the lack of transparency in AWS's practices and raises concerns about their terms of service restrictions.

Updates and announcements on AWS services: Amazon Athena, AWS Neuron, streaming logs to Splunk with AWS Lambda. GoDaddy's benchmarking results with AWS Graviton2. Evaluating generative AI for contact center customer experience. Topics on service usage: low cardinality indexes, analyzing harmonics issues, optimizing cloud costs, monitoring Amazon EFS storage costs. Release of Finch 1.0 GA.

The podcast discusses the importance of email security and highlights the significance of AWS role session tags for GitHub Actions. It also explores the damning summary of the Okta hack and introduces the AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge for an independent sovereign cloud in Europe.

AWS Morning Brief discusses various AWS updates and announcements, including optimizations in Amazon Aurora MySQL, support for customer-managed IAM policies in Amazon EKS, and enabling blocked public access for AMIs. They also talk about AWS Jam, a post mortem of an AWS service event, and AWS's policy on the resale of reserved instances.

Last 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 BlackHatAWS announces Cloud Companion Guide for the CSA Cyber Trust markSecuring generative AI: An introduction to the Generative AI Security Scoping Matrix