AWS Morning Brief

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

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 13, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:jobs.lastweekinaws.comAmazon EC2 announces the ability to create Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that can boot on UEFI and Legacy BIOS AWS Application Composer is now generally availableAWS CloudShell now supports the modular variant of AWS Tools for PowerShell AWS Config now supports 18 new resource types AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in 6 additional regions AWS announces new competition structure for the 2023 SeasonAWS Resource Explorer supports 12 new resource typesAnnouncing lower data warehouse base capacity configuration for Amazon Redshift ServerlessMeet the Newest AWS Heroes – March 2023 Subscribe to AWS Daily Feature Updates via Amazon SNSCalculate Amazon DynamoDB reserved capacity recommendations to optimize costsHow to use deletion protection to enhance your Amazon DynamoDB table protection strategy Push notification engagement metrics tracking Build Cloud Operations skills using the new AWS Observability Training 

Last week in security news: Audit Log Wall of Shame, More info on the LastPass breach, the Tool of the Week, and more!Links:Audit Log Wall of ShameSaudi social media app Fayvo apparently had an unsecured databaseMore information has come to light about the LastPass breachThree ways to boost your email security and brand reputation with AWSTool of the week: Trailscraper is an open source project to get useful information out of CloudTrail logs.