AWS Morning Brief

AWS 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 StoresNew – Amazon EC2 P5 Instances Powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs for Accelerating Generative AI and HPC ApplicationsNew – AWS Public IPv4 Address Charge + Public IP Insights Preview – Enable Foundation Models to Complete Tasks With Agents for Amazon Bedrock Migrating AWS Lambda functions from the Go1.x runtime to the custom runtime on Amazon Linux 2 Introducing Smithy for Python  Introducing AWS HealthScribe – automatically generate clinical notes from patient-clinician conversations using AWS HealthScribeAnalyze rodent infestation using Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilitiesAWS Reaffirms its Commitment to Responsible Generative AI Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces SOME THINGS I AM NOT GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT 

Last 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 on it. What a novel idea!Amazon Told Drivers Not to Worry About In-Van Surveillance Cameras. Now Footage Is Leaking OnlineYes, the compromised Microsoft key that they glossed over is incredibly important and Microsoft is downplaying it something fierce.Optimize AWS Config for AWS Security Hub to effectively manage your cloud security postureTool of the Week: IAMActionHunter lets you query IAM permission policies

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 24 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports workflows triggered by GitHub pullAmazon 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 Available on AWS Outposts RackReimagine Software Development With CodeWhisperer as Your AI Coding Companion Orca Security’s journey to a petabyte-scale data lake with Apache Iceberg and AWS Analytics Capture clickstream data using AWS serverless services Amazon Simple Email Service adds email delivery features to revised free tier Service Quota Observability Across Regions and AccountsRemoving Unassociated Elastic IPsNavigating common use cases spanning AWS GovCloud (US) and standard AWS

Last 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 labsSigns 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 heistA far-right publisher earned this week's S3 Bucket Negligence AwardAmazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP supports write once, read many (WORM) protection with SnapLock IAM Policies and Bucket Policies and ACLs! Oh, My! (Controlling Access to S3 Resources) was updated.Tool of the week: AWS IAM Data has launched.

AWS 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 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

In this episode, Corey Quinn talks about Tail Scale and its features for building trusted networks and sharing local services. He also discusses recent AWS updates, including AWS CodeBuild supporting GitHub Actions and AWS Lambda detecting and stopping recursive loops.

Last 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 from re:Inforce 2023Tool/ Lesson of the week: git-landmine 

AWS 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 BoardAmazon CloudWatch now supports dashboard variablesAmazon DynamoDB now simplifies and lowers the cost of handling failed conditional writesMountpoint for Amazon S3 adds support for creating new files AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store increases API throughput limit Announcing DynamoDB local version 2.0 Building Generative AI into Marketing Strategies: A Primer How To Build an Email Service on SES Downgrade SQL Server Enterprise edition using AWS Systems Manager Document to reduce costITSkills4U: From dentistry to IT 

Last 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 GameLastPass has apparently locked customers out due to MFA resets. Customer Compliance Guides now available on AWS ArtifactTool of the Week: findmytakeover 

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of July 5, 2023.Never 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