AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 18, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon SNS FIFO topics now support message delivery to Amazon SQS Standard queuesAnnouncing API Gateway console refresh Cost Anomaly Detection increases custom anomaly monitor limit to 500Custom notifications are now available for AWS Chatbot How to Integrate Amazon CloudWatch Alarms with Atlassian Confluence Knowledge Articles Building a secure webhook forwarder using an AWS Lambda extension and TailscaleDeploy Generative AI Models on Amazon EKSTroubleshoot networking issues during database migration with the AWS DMS diagnostic support AMI Using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Cloud Development Kit to provision multicloud resourcesCombining content moderation services with graph databases & analytics to reduce community toxicityAWS Private Certificate AuthorityRetail Partner Conversations: How Rokt is impacting the future of retail Simplify access to internal information using Retrieval Augmented Generation and LangChain Agents How to view Azure costs using Amazon QuickSight Centralized Dashboard for AWS Config and AWS Security Hub Benefits of Domain Registration with Amazon Route 53 Use Bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP) and RFC 8805 for localization of Internet contentUsing NAT Gateways with multiple-Amazon VPCs at scale Navigating change: From ophthalmologist to AWS Cloud expert

This podcast covers various security incidents and news, including an over-scoped role reported to AWS security, the worsening LastPass breach, Microsoft's signing key leakage, a scam targeting adult entertainment video vendors, Google's privacy concerns, and AWS announcements.

This podcast discusses the limitations of using CPU utilization as the only metric for evaluating resource efficiency in the cloud. It highlights the importance of considering additional metrics like network activity, disk I/O, and memory usage for accurate resource assessment.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 11, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS announces Extended Support for MySQL and PostgreSQL databasesAmazon CloudWatch adds Amazon EKS control plane logs as Vended LogsAmazon CloudWatch Logs announces regular expression filter pattern syntax supportAs SwiftOnSecurity pointed out a week or two ago, a lot of folks can now discover firsthand just how many of their rules allow all 10* trafficIntroducing Amazon EC2 R7iz instances AWS Marketplace now supports AWS CloudTrail to improve procurement activity monitoring AWS Step Functions launches enhanced error handlingAWS Trusted Advisor adds 1 new fault tolerance checkAnnouncing daily disbursements for AWS Marketplace sellers Embracing FinOps to Maximize Cloud Value and Control Costs with the Deloitte FinOps Framework Transforming Aviation Maintenance with the Infosys Generative AI Solution Built on Amazon Bedrock How Vercel Shipped Cron Jobs in 2 Months Using Amazon EventBridge SchedulerHow contact center leaders can prepare for generative AI A Culture of Resilience How generative AI is energizing the beauty industryMigrating AWS Direct Connect to a new locationReduce the security and compliance risks of messaging apps with AWS Wickr AWS Guild Tournament builds cloud skills and innovative customer solutionsFrom chocolate sales to a career in cloud with training from AWS re/StartAmazon to Discontinue Honeycode App-Building Service 

In this podcast, they discuss Barracuda's failed attempt to drive out hackers, starting AWS security research, the value of limiting permissions, lessons learned from AWS certification, and an introduction to IAM policy validator and the security tool WAP ELIZER.

Last Week In AWS for the week of September 4, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon QuickSight adds scheduled and programmatic export to Excel format Amazon S3 now supports multivalue answer in response to DNS queriesAWS Backup now supports local time zone selections AWS Lambda Functions powered by AWS Graviton2 now available in 6 additional regions AWS Neuron adds support for Llama 2, GPT-NeoX, and SDXL generative AI models AWS Private CA launches Connector for Active Directory Streamlining Prior Authorization with Treatline’s Generative AI Platform for Healthcare and Insurance ProvidersUpdating AWS CloudFormation Stacks Without Service Disruption to Support Rapid Business InnovationWhy AWS Customers Choose to Procure Software Through Channel Partners in AWS Marketplace Announcing Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink Renamed from Amazon Kinesis Data AnalyticsDeploy Amazon OpenSearch Serverless with Terraform How AWS AppFabric helps companies overcome tech overload Reinventing the in-store experience with Smart Store solutionsAutomatically generate impressions from findings in radiology reports using generative AI on AWS How MongoDB and AWS Collaborated to Enable Running the Open Source MongoDB Kafka Connector in Managed EnvironmentsEmbracing our broad responsibility for securing digital infrastructure in the European Union 

Last week in security news: How AWS built the Security Guardians program, Network Load Balancers now support Security groups, the Tool of the week, and more!Links:David Linthicum stakes out the position that in a multi-cloud world, centralized cloud security is now a must-have.Network Load Balancers now support Security groups How AWS built the Security Guardians program, a mechanism to distribute security ownershipKubernetes Security Issues (CVE-2023-3676, CVE-2023-3893, CVE-2023-3893) Tool of the week: SSOFixer 

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of August 30, 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/us-west-1-the-flagship-region-that-isn-tNever 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 August 28, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Aurora Global Database introduces Global Database FailoverAmazon ElastiCache for Memcached simplifies creating new clusters in the AWS Management ConsoleImprovements to multi-account management for Amazon GuardDutyAWS Certificate Manager introduces Enterprise Controls to help govern certificate issuanceAWS Cost Explorer announces support for AWS Billing ConductorAWS Microservice Extractor now supports visualizing very large enterprise applicationsAWS re:Post launches an enhanced search experienceAnnouncing AWS ROSA console support for the ROSA with hosted control planes previewEC2 Hibernate now supports Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instancesManage Cost Allocation Tags with Last-Updated and Last-Used timestamps Protecting an AWS Lambda function URL with Amazon CloudFront and Lambda@Edge Choose AWS Graviton and cloud storage for your Ethereum nodes infrastructure on AWS How Amazon Finance Technologies built an event-driven and scalable remittance service using Amazon DynamoDBUpgrade from Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 to v2 with minimal downtimeNext Big Things for Retail – Generative AI leads the pack but isn’t aloneExplain medical decisions in clinical settings using Amazon SageMaker ClarifyBuild a serverless store finder site using Amazon Location ServiceConfiguring client IP address preservation with a Network Load Balancer in AWS Global Accelerator How to use pulse-level control on OQC’s superconducting quantum computerAWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge: Announcing new dedicated infrastructure options

Last week in security news: Short session expiration does not help security, How to use AWS Verified Access logs to write and troubleshoot access policies, This week's S3 Bucket Negligence Award, and more!Links:A UK contractor wins this week's S3 Bucket Negligence Award.What happens when a Zero Day and Access Keys Collide in the Cloud.Short session expiration does not help securityHow to use AWS Verified Access logs to write and troubleshoot access policiesIAMbic purports to be able to alert you to changes to IAM polices via consuming CloudTrail logs