AWS Morning Brief

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 10, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:Console Toolbar is now generally available for AWS CloudShellAnnouncing CSV Export for AWS Resource Explorer Search ResultsAnnouncing Utilization Notifications for EC2 On-Demand CapacityEverything you need to know about AWS Billing Conductor’s new pricing modelHow to use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor Amazon DynamoDB table size and item count metricsImplement resource counters with Amazon DynamoDBAWS Organizations, moving an organization member account to another organization: Part 3Build secure multi-account multi-VPC connectivity for your applications with Amazon VPC Lattice Higher education cloud financial planning: A former CFO’s perspectiveHow the Think Big for Small Business program helps small businesses win big contractsAmazon started passing out Small Business labels to giant companies.Perfect imperfections: how AWS is innovating on diamond materials for quantum communication with Element Six

Last week in security news: Gain insights and knowledge at AWS re:Inforce 2023, InvalidClientTokenId, a repository of AWS customer breaches, and more!Links:If you're in New York City proper, I hope to see you tonight at 7PM at Vol de NuitWe're hiring an Account Exec to handle media sales for this very podcast. Should you be the person who refers the successful candidate, we'll give you a $3K USD referral fee.Nick Frichette has found an undocumented Amplify API and used it to leak AWS Account IDs.Friend of the newsletter Chris Farris has started an AWS security consulting practice.Gain insights and knowledge at AWS re:Inforce 2023 How to use Amazon GuardDuty and AWS WAF v2 to automatically block suspicious hostsInvalidClientTokenId: The security token included in the request is invalid errorSomeone is curating this repository of AWS customer breaches.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 3, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Kendra launches Featured Results AWS Chatbot now supports search of AWS resources and AWS content AWS Copilot adds support for full customization with AWS CDK or YAML overrides AWS re:Post now includes AWS Knowledge Center articlesNew Cost Explorer users now get Cost Anomaly Detection by defaultIntroducing Data on EKS – Modernize Data Workloads on Amazon EKSFriend microservices using Amazon DynamoDB and event filtering 

Last week in security news: Github accidentally published its RSA host keys for SSH, Automate IAM credential reports for large AWS Organizations, The Tool of the Week, and more!Links:Sad news; infosec luminary Kelly ‘Aloria’ Lum has regrettably passed away.Automate IAM credential reports for large AWS OrganizationsGithub accidentally published its RSA host keys for SSH.How to use Amazon Macie to reduce the cost of discovering sensitive dataUse backups to recover from security incidentsTool of the Week: Chekov 

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of 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-serviceNever 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 March 27, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:Allow Listing tool for testing new Billing, Cost Management and Account console permissions Amazon CloudWatch Logs adds support for new Amazon VPC Flow Logs metadata Amazon EC2 C6in, M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn metal instances are now availableAmazon SNS (pronounced "Snizz") announces support for setting content-type request headers for HTTP/S notificationsAWS CodeBuild now supports a small GPU machine typeConfiguring .NET Garbage Collection for Amazon ECS and AWS LambdaIntegrating with GitHub Actions – Amazon CodeGuru in your DevSecOps PipelineDelete Empty CloudWatch Log SteamsGrowing AWS internet peering with 400 GbE 

Last week in security news: The Many Ways to Access DynamoDB, a Yubikey configuration cheatsheet, and more!Links:The Many Ways to Access DynamoDB Scott Piper’s post on redacting AWS account IDs from public postsHow to use Google Workspace as an external identity provider for AWS IAM Identity Center Yubikey configuration cheatsheet

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 20, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:jobs.lastweekinaws.comAmazon EC2 M1 Mac instances now support in-place operating system updatesAnnouncing Amazon Linux 2023 AWS Chatbot now available in Microsoft Teams Announcing cross-account support for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points Talk about cloud with a non-cloud audience New – Use Amazon S3 Object Lambda with Amazon CloudFront to Tailor Content for End UsersImplementing an event-driven serverless story generation application with ChatGPT and DALL-EThe Future of Mining is in the Cloud 

Last week in security news: U.S. Officials are frustrated with cloud providers, Best Practices For Securing Your Home Network, The Tool of the Week, and more!Links:U.S. officials express significant frustration that cloud providers often up-charge customers to add security protectionsLightspin has a guide to SecDataOps and Vulnerability Management on AWSBest Practices For Securing Your Home Network.IAM Identity Center for AWS environments spanning AWS GovCloud (US) and standard Regions Establishing a data perimeter on AWS: Allow only trusted resources from my organizationHow to use policies to restrict where EC2 instance credentials can be used fromTool of the Week: Nosey Parker

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of March 15, 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/awss-anti-competitive-move-hidden-in-plain-sight/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