AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 21, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:Corey is performing a live Q&A next month; submit your questions here!Amazon Polly launches new Gulf Arabic male NTTS voiceAWS HealthOmics supports cross-account sharing of omics analytics stores New – Amazon EC2 M7a General Purpose Instances Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC ProcessorsAmazon OpenSearch Serverless expands support for larger workloads and collections Reduce Lambda cold start times: migrate to AWS SDK for JavaScript v3 Architecting for Resilience in the cloud for critical railway systems How Amazon Shopping uses Amazon Rekognition Content Moderation to review harmful images in product reviewsZero-shot text classification with Amazon SageMaker JumpStartBuild a multi-account access notification system with Amazon EventBridgeGetting Started with CloudWatch agent and collectd Cost considerations and common options for AWS Network Firewall log managementAddressing gender inequity in the technology industry 

Last week in security news: Cloudonaut has an overview of AWS's security monitoring services, Chris Farris talks about Defining the Sensitive IAM Actions, What’s new in the world of tools, and more!Links:Cloudonaut has an overview of AWS's security monitoring servicesA deep exploration into how you can really screw up integrating GitHub with AWS.Chris Farris talks about Defining the Sensitive IAM Actions.AWS Security Profile: Get to know the AWS Identity Solutions team CVE-2023-20569 - RAS Poisoning - Inception - Paired with CVE-2022-40982 AVID is an AI Vulnerability Database.TinderSec threw up a scanner on GitHub so you can see if you've fallen prey to one of the classic OICD permissions blunders.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of August 16, 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-amazon-prime-day-2023-aws-bill/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

The podcast covers topics such as Amazon's approach to returning to the office, the use of Tail Scale for building trusted networks, and various AWS announcements including email notifications for AWS Artifact and the launch of the AWS Backup air-gapped vault preview

Last week in security news: People are still discovering some effects of the latest Azure security breach, Introducing the first AWS Security Heroes, How to Receive Alerts When Your IAM Configuration Changes, and more!Links:Following the latest Azure breach, the CEO of Tenable says they can see banking customer credentials even now.Introducing the first AWS Security HeroesHow to Receive Alerts When Your IAM Configuration Changes Perform continuous vulnerability scanning of AWS Lambda functions with Amazon InspectorRecent Software-based Power Side-Channel Security Research You can totally use AWS's SSM agent as post-exploitation RAT malware

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of August 8, 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/breaking-aws-begins-charging-for-public-ipv4-addresses/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 August 7, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:In Amazon's earnings call, Andy Jassy said that every Amazon team is working on Generative AIAmazon Route 53 adds support for 14 additional Top-Level Domains AWS NAT Gateway is now available in the AWS US West Phoenix Local ZoneAmazon EBS announces up to 128 volume attachments per EC2 instanceIntroducing Amazon EC2 M7i-flex and M7i instancesAmazon EventBridge Scheduler adds schedule deletion after completionAWS Application Composer updates: Undo and Redo, Export Canvas, and Local Sync ModeNow Open – AWS Israel (Tel Aviv ) RegionPrime Day 2023 Powered by AWS – All the Numbers Estimate cost savings for the Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized feature using Amazon CloudWatch Empowering your workforce with Amazon WorkSpaces services and Microsoft 365Exploring Fn::ForEach and Fn::FindInMap enhancements in AWS CloudFormation Identify and optimize public IPv4 address usage on AWS 

Last week in security news: Patch your Ubuntu cloud workloads, Azure faces backlash following that stolen Microsoft signing key, IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper adds support for OS certificate stores, and more!Links:You almost certainly want to patch your Ubuntu cloud workloadsIf you care about what that stolen Microsoft signing key was capable of, Azure really wishes you would stop askingSenator Wyden is calling for Azure to be held responsible.In a frantic scramble, Azure is expanding access to cloud logging data for free IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper adds support for OS certificate storesCVE-2023-20593This handy script fetches SSO permission assignments.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 31, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links:The new Amazon Chime 5 on Windows, macOS, and web is coming soon - Amazon Chime Help Center Access and Query are now generally available for Amazon Managed Blockchain AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.11 AWS Entity Resolution: Match and Link Related Records from Multiple Applications and Data StoresNew – Amazon EC2 P5 Instances Powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs for Accelerating Generative AI and HPC ApplicationsNew – AWS Public IPv4 Address Charge + Public IP Insights Preview – Enable Foundation Models to Complete Tasks With Agents for Amazon Bedrock Migrating AWS Lambda functions from the Go1.x runtime to the custom runtime on Amazon Linux 2 Introducing Smithy for Python  Introducing AWS HealthScribe – automatically generate clinical notes from patient-clinician conversations using AWS HealthScribeAnalyze rodent infestation using Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilitiesAWS Reaffirms its Commitment to Responsible Generative AI Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces SOME THINGS I AM NOT GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT 

Last week in security news: A Guide to S3 Logging, Optimize AWS Config for AWS Security Hub, Amazon Told Drivers Not to Worry About In-Van Surveillance Cameras. Now Footage Is Leaking Online, and More!Links:Guide to S3 Logging Good on JumpCloud for disclosing a breach by some state-backed APT hacking group, but I learned about it from this article, and I'm a JumpCloud customer.Charlie Bel issued a security roadmap for Microsoft: Protect Azure DevOps secrets is the first item on it. What a novel idea!Amazon Told Drivers Not to Worry About In-Van Surveillance Cameras. Now Footage Is Leaking OnlineYes, the compromised Microsoft key that they glossed over is incredibly important and Microsoft is downplaying it something fierce.Optimize AWS Config for AWS Security Hub to effectively manage your cloud security postureTool of the Week: IAMActionHunter lets you query IAM permission policies