AWS Morning Brief

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 6, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now supports customer configurable maintenance windowsAmazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor is now generally availableAWS Lambda Powertools for .NET is now generally availableAmazon Neptune Serverless now scales down to 1 NCU to save costs AWS Control Tower announces a progress tracker for landing zone setup and upgradesIn the Works – AWS Region in Malaysia New – Amazon Lightsail for Research with All-in-One Research Environments Announcing Amazon ECS Task Definition Deletion Announcing the end of Windows Installer support for AWS Tools for Windows“Avatar: The Way of Water” and the future of filmmaking A detailed overview of Trusted Advisor Organizational Dashboard 

Last week in security news: US Military emails leaked on an exposed server, How to monitor and query IAM resources at scale, the Tool of the Week, and more!Links:If you're in Seattle, come to Outer Planet Brewing this Sunday at 7PM and let Corey buy you a drink.Aiden Steele writes at length about using a recent enhancement to Systems Manager to pass out a role to all of your EC2 instances.US Military emails leaked on an exposed serverAmazon Detective launches an interactive workshop for investigating potential security issuesHow to monitor and query IAM resources at scale – Part 1 Tool of the week: a break-glass role to limit production access to the AWS console

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of March 1, 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/aws-is-asleep-at-the-lambda-wheelNever 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 February 27, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon OpenSearch Service now lets you schedule service software updates during off-peak hours AWS App Runner now supports HTTP to HTTPS redirectAnnouncing the ability to enable AWS Systems Manager by default across all EC2 instances in an account New: AWS Telco Network Builder – Deploy and Manage Telco NetworksDeveloping portable AWS Lambda functionsUsing Porting Advisor for Graviton Query data with DynamoDB Shell – a command line interface for Amazon DynamoDBAWS and Hugging Face collaborate to make generative AI more accessible and cost efficientBranch Insurance improves hiring diversity and accelerates app development using AWS AppSyncGain compliance insights using the open source community for AWS CloudTrail The true costs of resiliency decisions 

Last week in security news: More security woes for Azure, the AWS Survival Kit, CloudGPT, and more!Links:A security researcher reported a potential account compromise vector to Azure back in 2021. I once again want to draw your attention to the open source AWS Survival Kit. How to visualize IAM Access Analyzer policy validation findings with QuickSight Updated ebook: Protecting your AWS environment from ransomwareChatGPT is all the rage, and of course here's CloudGPT to analyze AWS policies for vulnerabilitiesScott Piper has a great tip for us this week: think of the vendors / partners who have roles in your AWS account.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of February 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/amazons-snowball-edge-frustrates-this-userNever 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

Last week in security news: Ubiquiti inside attacker pleads guilty, Wiz 2023 State of the Cloud report, the tool of the week, and more!Links:That inside attacker who worked at jackass company Ubiquiti pleads guiltyDatadog's security folk discovered an AWS Console rate limit bypassWiz 2023 State of the Cloud reportThe anatomy of ransomware event targeting data residing in Amazon S3 Tool of the week: aws-firewall-factory 

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of February 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/the-dumbest-dollars-a-cloud-provider-can-make/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 February 13, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Chime SDK now offers a Windows client libraryAmazon CloudWatch now supports high resolution metric extraction from structured logsAWS SAM CLI introduces ‘sam list’ command to inspect AWS SAM resources Get cost estimates faster with AWS Pricing Calculator bulk import New – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience Introducing the AWS ProServe Hadoop Migration Delivery Kit TCO tool Introducing the Amazon EKS Workshop Using GitHub Actions with Amazon CodeCatalyst Using Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor time to expiration for Reserved Instances