

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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Aug 10, 2022 • 9min
Cadence Is Culture: Why Amazonians Need to Overload Us at re:Invent
Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link.https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/why_amazon_cant_end_the_release_tidal_wave/Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/eKMxBNF5N-kNever miss an episodeJoin the Last Week in AWS newsletterSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsHelp the showLeave a reviewShare your feedbackSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsWhat'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

Aug 8, 2022 • 7min
Very Tired Lambda Pricing
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 8, 2022 with Corey Quinn.

Aug 4, 2022 • 5min
Single Sign On, Multiple Names
Links:35K GitHub repos had been compromised by malware. GitHub security issued a response within 24 hours showing what their findings indicate and clarifying the situation.Scale your workforce access management with AWS IAM Identity Center (previously known as AWS SSO)Welcoming the AWS Customer Incident Response Team - Surprisingly this doesn't require a paid support plan.iamlive generates IAM policies from AWS calls via client-side monitoring

Aug 3, 2022 • 8min
Are AWS account IDs sensitive information?
Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link.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 podcastsWhat'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

Aug 1, 2022 • 7min
Crappy Clone of a Fast Database
AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 1, 2022 with Corey Quinn.

Jul 28, 2022 • 5min
Never Gonna Shut Me Up
Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/Q2Zpg5jQe-QNever miss an episodeJoin the Last Week in AWS newsletterSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsHelp the showLeave a reviewShare your feedbackSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsWhat'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

Jul 27, 2022 • 5min
The Mental Breakdown of Auto-Remediation
Links:The Nigerian government scores this week's S3 Bucket Negligence AwardNew Air-Gap Attack Uses SATA Cable as an Antenna to Transfer Radio SignalsAutomatically block suspicious DNS activity with Amazon GuardDuty and Route 53 Resolver DNS FirewallUse Security Hub custom actions to remediate S3 resources based on Macie discovery results There has been significant improvement to the AWS IAM documentation around IAM best practices.Artillery lets you use Lambdas for open source load testing.

Jul 25, 2022 • 7min
New Cloudscape Cloudscrapes
AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 25, 2022 with Corey Quinn.

Jul 21, 2022 • 6min
AWS's Disclosure Improvements
Links:Things I wish I knew about AWS WAF - Bot Control How to Protect Your Data from Ransomware with S3 Object LockIt seems that Experian has learned nothing from its string of data breachesThe Makati city government is the winner of this week's S3 Bucket Negligence award.A quick overview of AWS principals, identity-based policies, and resource-based policies.Eligible customers can now order a free MFA security keyReported EKS IAM Authenticator Issue I found a handy script that someone beat together that makes it easy as pie to use AWS Roles Anywhere.

Jul 20, 2022 • 9min
Azure's Security Vulnerabilities are Out of Control
Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link.https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/azures_vulnerabilities_are_quackWant to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/5iTxtBnCPysNever miss an episodeJoin the Last Week in AWS newsletterSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsHelp the showLeave a reviewShare your feedbackSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsWhat'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


