

AWS Morning Brief
Corey Quinn
The latest in AWS news, sprinkled with snark. Posts about AWS come out over sixty times a day. We filter through it all to find the hidden gems, the community contributions--the stuff worth hearing about! Then we summarize it with snark and share it with you--minus the nonsense.
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Dec 12, 2022 • 6min
The Dryer Ate the SOC
Links:Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsAWS CloudShell is now System and Organization Controls (SOC) compliantEmail delta cost usage report in a multi-account organization using AWS LambdaAWS re:Invent 2022 CEO Keynote through the Cloud Financial Management lensBuild a robust text-based toxicity predictor

Dec 7, 2022 • 6min
The Unfulfilled Promise of Serverless
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-Unfulfilled-Promise-of-Serverless/This episode was originally released on November 3, 2021. 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

Dec 5, 2022 • 15min
re:Invent 2022 Retrospective: Releases & Opinions
Links:VPC Lattice -- network overlay.AWS Supply ChainAWS Application ComposerEventBridge pipesAmazon Security LakeAmazon OpenSearch ServerlessAmazon CodeCatalystAWS Wickr is now availableAWS Backup supports CloudFormation StacksAWS stimface weaver – space sim weaver… screw it. AWS SpiderBro it is.AWS launched a whole bunch of new EC2 instance types and sizes

Nov 30, 2022 • 4min
The Releases are Coming Fast and Furious Now
Links:Last Week in AWS Community SlackVPC LatticeAWS Supply ChainOpenSearch ServerlessAWS Verified AccessStay Up To Date with re:QuinnventSign up for the re:Quinnvent NewsletterCheck out the re:Quinnvent playlist on YouTubeIf you’re on site:Join Corey for a Nature Walk through the Expo Hall beginning at the Fortinet booth today (11/29/22) at 1pm PST or For drinks at Atomic Liquors tonight at 8:15 pm PST.Tomorrow evening is re:Play, if you see Corey there, please say hello!Help the showShare your feedbackSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsBuy our merchWhat'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

Nov 29, 2022 • 6min
The Releases of re:Invent are in Full Swing
Links:Last Week in AWS Community SlackAmazon ECS Service ConnectAmazon RDS Optimized Reads and WritesFully Managed Blue / Green Deployments in Aurora and RDSProtect Sensitive Data with CloudWatch LogsAmazon cloudWatch Cross-Account ObservabilityStay Up To Date with re:QuinnventSign up for the re:Quinnvent NewsletterCheck out the re:Quinnvent playlist on YouTubeIf you’re on site:Join Corey for a Nature Walk through the Expo Hall beginning at the Fortinet booth tomorrow (11/29/22) at 1pm PST or For drinks at Atomic Liquors tomorrow evening at 8:15 pm PST.Help the showShare your feedbackSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsBuy our merchWhat'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

Nov 28, 2022 • 7min
Pre:Invent Edition
Links:Tiered storage for MSKLambda telemetry APIResource Explorer LaunchedGP3 comes to RDSAmazon Time Sync is now available as a public NTP serviceZurich regionSpain RegionHyderabad RegionFaster glacier restoresmultiple MFA devicesFinchAWS Fault Isolation Boundaries whitepaperStay Up To Date with re:QuinnventSign up for the re:Quinnvent NewsletterCheck out the re:Quinnvent playlist on YouTubeHelp the showShare your feedbackSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsBuy our merchWhat'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

Nov 23, 2022 • 9min
The Feudal Lords of Amazon: AWS' Infinite Service Launches and Counterproductive Culture
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-feudal-lords-of-amazon/Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/g1guW6tiR50Never 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

Nov 21, 2022 • 8min
IAM Over the Moon About Multiple MFA Devices
Links:Amazon NAT Gateway Now Allows You to Select Private IP Address for Network Address TranslationAmazon S3 Glacier improves restore throughput by up to 10x when retrieving large volumes of archived dataAmazon Time Sync is now available over the internet as a public NTP serviceAWS re:Post launches a community leaderboardAnnouncing the new Applications widget on AWS Console HomeAmazon S3 request-level information on use of access control lists (ACLs) coming to S3 server access logs and AWS CloudTrail Know Before You Go: An AWS Partner’s Guide to re:Invent 2022Introducing our final AWS Heroes of the year – November 2022Now Open–AWS Region in SpainIntroducing Amazon EventBridge SchedulerMigrate ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP from IBM Db2 for z/OS to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible EditionYou can now assign multiple MFA devices in IAM

Nov 17, 2022 • 5min
The Canary in the Git Mine
Links:A super-neat exploration of the Lambda execution environment from a security perspective.Detect and block advanced bot traffic How to evaluate and use ECDSA certificates in AWS Certificate Manager - AWS released support for ECDSA certificates.Canary Tokens

Nov 16, 2022 • 8min
How To Learn Something New: Kubernetes The Much Harder Way
Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link.https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/How-To-Learn-Something-New-Kubernetes-the-Much-Harder-WayWant to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/bpp5tpgU6CENever 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


