AWS Morning Brief

Corey Quinn
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Oct 19, 2022 • 8min

A Brief History of Kubernetes, Its Use Cases, and Its Problems

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-kubernetes-its-use-cases-and-its-problems Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/StlZwvsq9tcNever 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
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Oct 17, 2022 • 7min

Blame Steven Postmortems

Links:Amazon Chime announces new mobile apps with features to improve your meeting experienceAmazon Detective improves search by supporting case insensitivity AWS Activate is now open to all startups AWS CloudFormation StackSets increases limits on three service quotasAWS IQ now supports partners and independent consultants in Australia, Europe, Japan, and other regionsAnnouncing a new Cost Explorer console experience Omdia study: how the media and entertainment industry uses cloud marketplace solutionsBest Practices for Hosting Regulated Gaming Workloads in AWS Local Zones and on AWS OutpostsReducing AWS Fargate Startup Times with zstd Compressed Container ImagesManaging your Game Studio on AWS part 2Netflix innovates and entertains the world, powered by AWS How to use AWS Config and CloudTrail to find who made changes to a resource Introducing AWS Global Accelerator IPv6 Canary Testing with AWS App Mesh and TektonThe economic impact of AWS’s investment in Japan Goldman Sachs and AWS examine efficient ways to load data into quantum computers The importance of a mentor in your cloud learning journey 
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Oct 13, 2022 • 3min

Higher Cross-region SSO Availability

Links:AWS Permission Boundaries for Dummies. Improve the Availability of Existing Okta IAM Federation Setup Using Multi-Region SAML Endpoints Use existing Logging and Security Account with AWS Control TowerIAM Access Analyzer makes it simpler to author and validate role trust policies Tool of the week: cleanup-aws-access-keys
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Oct 12, 2022 • 9min

AWS Data Transfer Charges: Ingress Actually Is Free

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-data-transfer-charges-ingress-actually-is-free/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
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Oct 11, 2022 • 6min

Getting Lost in Cloud Map

Links:AWS Cloud Map Updates Service Level Agreement Amazon DevOps Guru now allows customers control over the notifications they receive Amazon S3 Object Lambda now supports using your own code to modify the results of S3 HEAD and LIST API requestsAmazon SageMaker Clarify now can provide near real-time explanations for ML predictions AWS Lambda Functions powered by AWS Graviton2 now available in 12 additional regionsThe five most visited Amazon DynamoDB blog posts of 2022 Prevent account takeover at login with the new Account Takeover Insights model in Amazon Fraud Detector Bootstrapping multiple AWS accounts for AWS CDK using CloudFormation StackSetsDesigning hyperscale Amazon VPC networks 
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Oct 6, 2022 • 5min

Basic Security Alerting

Links:AWS RDS Aurora wish list The Confusing Lifetimes of AWS IAM Identity Center Access TokensAWS announces updated Support Plans Console with new IAM controlsHow to automatically build forensic kernel modules for Amazon Linux EC2 instancesTool of the week: aws-security-survival-kit 
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Oct 5, 2022 • 7min

Confidential Computing Is a Cloud Paranoia-Based Wasteland

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link.https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/confidential-computing-is-for-the-tinfoil-hat-brigadeWant to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/z_jD64jGhhINever 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
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Oct 3, 2022 • 6min

Amazon File Cash

Links:Amazon S3 Replication Time Control for predictable replication time now available in the AWS China (Beijing) and AWS China (Ningxia) Regions Amazon SageMaker Canvas supports mathematical functions and operators for richer data exploration Snow Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Amazon Machine Image (AMI) available on all Snow Family jobs Announcing 1-Click templates and tutorials in AWS Budgets AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority is now AWS Private Certificate AuthorityAWS Cloud Control API now supports AWS PrivateLinkAWS Compute Optimizer now supports 37 new EC2 instance types and new memory metrics for Windows instancesAWS Copilot, a CLI for the containerized apps, adds IAM permission boundaries and more AWS Cost Categories now support retroactive rules application Amazon File Cache – A High Performance Cache On AWS For Your On-Premises File Systems Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces Ubuntu DesktopsMigrate from Oracle RAC to AWS: Alternatives on AWSSet up enterprise-level cost allocation for ML environments and workloads using resource tagging in Amazon SageMakerSecure media delivery at the edge on Amazon Web Services 
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Sep 29, 2022 • 6min

Inadvertent Compliance Week

Links:The Challenges of Assessing Kubernetes clusters for PCI Compliance. Tailscale released a post titled What we learned (and can share) from passing our SOC 2 Type II audit that is absolutely worth your time and attention.Our friends at Wiz discovered a vulnerability in Oracle Cloud’s security where you could mount other customers' EBS volumes simply by asking the API to do so. From the Mouth of AWS Horse: Announcing an update to IAM role trust policy behavior In the world of tools, AWS has launched its rolesanywhere-credential-helper
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Sep 28, 2022 • 6min

The Baffling Maze of Kubernetes

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link.Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/iOqSjqhD2lcNever 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

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