AWS Morning Brief

AWS 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 estimationsInvoice Summary is now available Optimize your x86-based Amazon EC2 Workloads New – AWS DMS Serverless: Automatically Provisions and Scales Capacity for Migration and Data ReplicationBuild hypothetical indexes in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with HypoPGVersion 1 of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) has reached end-of-supportThe Retail Race: A Roadmap for Implementing a Smart Store Strategy Get ready for AWS IPv6 dayIntroducing a cost control solution for Amazon Braket 

Last 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 waysAWS partners bring choice of temporary elevated access capabilities to IAM Identity CenterExclude cipher suites at the API gateway using a Network Load Balancer security policy Faster AWS cloud connections with TLS 1.3 Stronger together: Highlights from RSA Conference 2023 This is a fun tool: Is It AWS 

AWS 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 vaporwareAmazon 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 LambdaHow Broadridge used Amazon Managed Blockchain to build a private equity lifecycle management solution Stronger together: Highlights from RSA Conference 2023Welcome to AWS Documentation

Last 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 termBitbucket 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 audacity to lie to our faces and say it's for "security."I have a bunch of Wemo devices at home that control lights. I found out that they've got a buffer overflow that Wemo "will not be fixing" because the devices are end of life.AWS Reported a GuardDuty Finding IssueThe tool of the week: IAMbic lets you tailor AWS Identity Center permissions per account.

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AWS 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 GitHubPeloton embraces Amazon Redshift to unlock the power of data during changing times Motivations for migration to Amazon DynamoDB Neo Financial achieves Zero Trust goals and meets compliance requirements with Amazon WorkSpaces WebIntroducing AWS GameTime – a new AWS Twitch show Unlock Insights from your Amazon S3 data with intelligent search Estimating AWS Config recorder costs and usage using AWS CloudTrailCreating a strategic approach to government continuity 

Last 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 AwardGoogle has launched its Passkey implementationA story about MSI leaking its own signing keysKentik 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 you're an AWS IAM product manageAmazon CloudFront announces one-click security protections A walk through AWS Verified Access policies Tool of the week: SCPkit helps you manage your SCPs

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 15, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:Introducing Amazon EC2 I4g storage-optimized instancesAmazon 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 availableAWS Systems Manager now allows customers to optimize the compute costs of their applicationsIntroducing Cedar, an open-source language for access control New – Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized Cluster Configuration with Up to 40% Cost Savings for I/O-Intensive ApplicationsAWS Lambda for the containers developer Committed to our communities: The economic impact of AWS’s $15.6 billion investment in Oregon 

Last 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 defaultHow to scan your AWS Lambda functions with Amazon InspectorAWS IAM Actions 

AWS 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-awsNever 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