AWS Morning Brief

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 29th, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon GameLift now includes containers support (Preview)Introducing Amazon Route 53 Profiles Amazon Simple Email Service is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region Amazon Time Sync Service expands Microsecond-Accurate time to 87 additonal EC2 instance typesHow to Migrate Content from Amazon WorkDocs Build and deploy a 1 TB/s file system in under an hourAWS Response to March 2024 CSRB report chance to be actual leaderspeople turning down job offers

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 22, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS IAM Identity Center adds independent 90-days session duration for Amazon CodeWhisperer Deloitte and AWS Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate Cloud Adoption in Growth MarketsImprove cost visibility of Amazon EKS with AWS Split Cost Allocation Data Congratulations to the PartyRock generative AI hackathon winners Access Amazon RDS across AWS accounts using AWS PrivateLink, Network Load Balancer, and Amazon RDS ProxyProgrammatic approach to optimize the cost of Amazon RDS snapshots Reduce cost and improve performance by migrating to Amazon DocumentDB 5.0A secure approach to generative AI with AWS AWS celebrates big technology wins at NAB 2024 New AWS survey reveals the link between AI fluency and the next education revolutionCVE-2024-28056Creating shortcut links to AWS Management Console destinations - AWS IAM Identity Center

AWS Morning Brief for the week of 04/15/24, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Route 53 adds support for 18 additional Top-Level Domains Announcing AWS Transfer Family workshop for building secure file transfer solutions using SFTPNew AWS monetization solution demonstrations at NAB Show 2024 Optimizing AWS Backup costs

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 8, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring is now generally availableAmazon SageMaker Canvas announces new pricing for training tabular models Introducing AWS CodeConnections, formerly known as AWS CodeStar Connections -Amazon CloudWatch now supports cross-account anomaly detection Amazon EKS extended support for Kubernetes versions now generallyAnnouncing AWS Deadline Cloud AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for CloudWatch custom dashboardsAWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 3.3 Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6 instances Announcing per-second billing for EC2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-based instances Why AWS Supports ValkeyAWS Activate credits now accepted for third-party models on Amazon Bedrock DoorDash saves millions annually using Amazon S3 Storage Lens

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 1, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:AI recommendations for descriptions in Amazon DataZone now generally availableAmazon DynamoDB Import from S3 now supports up to 50,000 Amazon S3 objects in a single bulk importAmazon Time Sync Service now supports microsecond-accurate time in US East (N. Virginia) Region AWS Billing and Cost Management Data Exports now supports AWS CloudFormation AWS Compute Optimizer introduces memory customizability for EC2 rightsizing recommendationsAWS Cost Allocation Tags now support retroactive applicationEstimating the charges for Amazon RDS Extended SupportAmazon completes $4B Anthropic investment to advance generative AI

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 25, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS PrivateLinkAmazon WorkMail now supports Audit LoggingAWS announces a 7-day window to return Savings Plans AWS CodeBuild now supports custom images for AWS Lambda computeEC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts now provide visibility into supported macOS versionsInvoke AWS Lambda functions from cross-account Amazon Kinesis Data StreamsTraeger Grills’s Customer Experience team drives customer satisfaction significantly using Amazon QuickSight Bulk update Amazon DynamoDB tables with AWS Step Functions Simplify cross-account access control with Amazon DynamoDB using resource-based policies How to securely provide access to centralized AWS CloudTrail Lake logs across accounts in your organizationHow to optimize DNS for dual-stack networksIntroducing mTLS for Application Load Balancer 6 foundational capabilities you need for generative AIIt’s time to evolve IT procurementAWS and NVIDIA extend their collaboration to advance generative AI

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 18, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon EFS now supports up to 20 GiB/s of throughputAmazon SES now offers support for headers when sending emailAWS announces Aurora MySQL integration with Amazon Bedrock for Generative AI AWS Backup now supports restore testing for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive Experience up to 40% faster stack creation with AWS CloudFormationAWS Cost Categories launches a revamped user interface Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model is now available on Amazon BedrockNew European study: AI skills will significantly boost productivity and salaries

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 11, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:Start your Engines! Announcing the 2024 AWS DeepRacer LeagueAccelerate no-code ML with a refreshed homepage in Amazon SageMaker CanvasAWS re:Post introduces re:Post Live How Accenture Accelerates Building a Secure Cloud Foundation Natively on AWS Accenture scored itself an S3 bucket negligence award Revolutionize Your Business with AWS Generative AI Competency PartnersAmazon RDS now supports io2 Block Express volumes for mission-critical database workloadsFree data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS Unlocking Innovation: AWS and Anthropic push the boundaries of generative AI togetherThe benefits of running controlled substance databases with AWSIntroducing the AWS WAF traffic overview dashboard

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 4, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon CloudFront announces availability of Embedded Points of Presence Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports IPv6Amazon Data Firehose adds message extraction feature for decompressed CloudWatch Logs Amazon EC2 m7i.metal-24xl instance is now generally available for VMware Cloud on AWSAmazon EKS announces support for Amazon Linux 2023AWS announces Amazon Neptune I/O-Optimized AWS Batch now offers multi-container jobs New AWS Region in Mexico is in the works Engage online sports fans with live event commentary using generative AI on Amazon BedrockDelivering Business Value with Cloud Platform Teams The Power of Cloud Storage for Small and Medium Businesses: Unlocking Efficiency and Security

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 26, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Incident Detection and Response now offers five minute response time for critical incidentsMultiple solution tagging on ACE opportunities Introducing the .NET 8 runtime for AWS Lambda Best practices for managing Terraform State files in AWS CI/CD Pipeline Understand Amazon S3 data transfer costs by classifying requests with Amazon Athena

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 20, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Bedrock console gets a modern look-and-feel AWS Control Tower introduces APIs to register Organizational Units Build generative AI chatbots using prompt engineering with Amazon Redshift and Amazon BedrockHow to enforce creation of roles in a specific path: Use IAM role naming in hierarchy models

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 12, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links:re:Invent 2023 Cost Optimization highlights that you were not expectingAWS Twitch show on cost optimizationFive things to consider when choosing your cloud provider Announcing CDK Migrate: A single command to migrate to the AWS CDKAccenture creates a regulatory document authoring solution using AWS generative AI servicesUsing one-click unsubscribe with Amazon SESHow to interconnect AWS Cloud WAN core networks

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 5, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon EC2 added new price protection for attribute based instance selectionAWS announces a new Local Zone in Chicago, Illinois AWS Free Tier now includes 750 hours of free Public IPv4 addresses, as charges for Public IPv4 begin Optimize costs by automating AWS Compute Optimizer recommendationsA new and improved AWS CDK construct for Amazon DynamoDB tables Announcing Generative AI CDK ConstructsAWS Marketplace now available in the AWS Secret Region Building your machine learning skills from zero I dipped my toes in the Machine Learning® world a while back and found an impressively great tool for it: Google Colab. RHEL Pricing – Amazon Web ServicesIncorrect RI / SP Purchase Warnings

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 29, 2024, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Billing Conductor releases account-scoped custom line items Introducing IPv6 instance bundles on Amazon Lightsail Sellers can now resell third-party professional services in AWS MarketplaceThe Journey to IPv6 on Amazon EKS: Foundation (Part 1)Deploy a Microsoft Teams gateway for Amazon Q, your business expert RED Camera Cloud Upload to AWSVMware’s Cloud Journey: AWS Account Management at Scale

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 22, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS CodeBuild announces support for reserved capacityAWS Config now supports 22 new resource types AWS Transfer Family provides static IP addresses for SFTP connectorsGLIDE for Redis, an OSS Redis client sponsored by AWS, now available in previewROSA with hosted control planes (HCP) is generally availableHow Infosys is Reimagining Enterprise Solutions with Generative AI on AWS AWS Marketplace features to accelerate your renewals strategyAmazon EKS extended support for Kubernetes versions pricing

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 16, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Accounts discontinues the use of security challenge questionsAWS CodeBuild now supports a X-Large Linux compute typeIntroducing Open Job Description, an open specification for portable render jobs Reducing Inference Times by 87% for Darwinbox’s Talent Search Engine Using AWS InferentiaAmazon ECS supports a native integration with Amazon EBS volumes for data-intensive workloadsThis is sad: AWS to Shut down Aurora Serverless v1.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 8th, 2024 with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.12Amazon EC2 Serial Console is now available in all Local Zones macOS support policy updates for the AWS CLI v2How Transfer Family can help you build a secure, compliant managed file transfer solution

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of December 27, 2023.This episode originally aired on March 29, 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/s3-as-an-eternal-service/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 Extras edition for the week of December 13, 2023.This episode originally aired on February 16, 2022. Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/gYJgDymP_GU?si=s5lkpRjpGSkC58v_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 December 11, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Titan Image Generator foundation model in Amazon Bedrock now available in previewAmazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region Amazon Redshift extends SUPER data type column size support to 16 MBAWS Secrets Manager announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement Build Better Engagement using the AWS Community Engagement Flywheel: Part 1 of 3 Simplify Modernization of your monolithic application using Amazon VPC Lattice Celebrate with 12 days of AWS Activate

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 4th, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:Watch the video version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/Jm_eXNjdMl0Check out the re:Quinnvent playlist on YouTubeHelp the showShare your feedbackFollow 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

AWS Morning Brief for November 30th, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Stay Up To Date with re:QuinnventSign up for the re:Quinnvent NewsletterJoin the re:Quinnvent Scavenger HuntCheck out the re:Quinnvent playlist on YouTubeHelp the showShare your feedbackFollow 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

AWS Morning Brief for November 29th, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Stay Up To Date with re:QuinnventSign up for the re:Quinnvent NewsletterJoin the re:Quinnvent Scavenger HuntCheck out the re:Quinnvent playlist on YouTubeHelp the showShare your feedbackFollow 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

AWS Morning Brief for November 28th, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:Elaastic Throughput for EFSFront any existing MySQL or PostgresQL with a GraphQL APISecurity Hub Multi-Region and Multi-AccountAmazon Detective announces investigations for IAMStay Up To Date with re:QuinnventSign up for the re:Quinnvent NewsletterJoin the re:Quinnvent Scavenger HuntCheck out the re:Quinnvent playlist on YouTubeHelp the showShare your feedbackFollow 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

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 27, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Stay Up To Date with re:QuinnventSign up for the re:Quinnvent NewsletterJoin the re:Quinnvent Scavenger HuntCheck out the re:Quinnvent playlist on YouTubeHelp the showShare your feedbackFollow 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

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of November 22, 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/generative-ai-builds-a-reinvent-scavenger-huntNever 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 November 20, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:re:QuinnventWednesday night drinkup at Atomic LiquorsNature WalkAmazon CloudWatch Logs announces regular expression filter pattern support for Live Tail Amazon EBS announces Snapshot Lock to protect snapshots from inadvertent or malicious deletions Amazon MSK Serverless now supports all programming languagesAmazon Time Sync Service now supports microsecond-accurate time AWS CloudTrail Lake announces new pricing option optimized for flexible retentionAWS Cost Explorer now provides more historical and granular dataAWS announces IPv6 tiered VPCs and subnetsAWS Lambda console now features a single pane view of metrics, logs, and tracesAnnouncing Research and Engineering Studio on AWS Announcing PartyRock, an Amazon Bedrock PlaygroundAmazon Bedrock now provides access to Meta’s Llama 2 Chat 13B model Happy anniversary, Amazon CloudFront: 15 years of evolution and internet advancementsNew – Multi-account search in AWS Resource ExplorerIntroducing instance maintenance policy for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling The serverless attendee’s guide to AWS re:Invent 2023 Amazon EKS and Kubernetes sessions at AWS re:Invent 2023 Optimize AZ traffic costs using Amazon EKS, Karpenter, and Istio EditorialJoin us for a week of AWS Amplify launches

Last week in security news: Copilot and CodeWhisperer can in fact leak real secrets, an interesting teardown of a cloud cryptocurrency miner, the tool of the week, and more!Links:Copilot and CodeWhisperer can in fact leak real secrets. An interesting teardown of a cloud cryptocurrency miner. How to create an AMI hardening pipeline and automate updates to your ECS instance fleet How to improve your security incident response processes with Jupyter notebooksTool of the week: If you've gotta use a WAF, aws-firewall-factory is a good pit stop for you.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 13, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Show Notes:Links:Amazon Aurora Global Database for PostgreSQL now supports write forwardingAmazon SQS announces support for JSON protocolAWS Cost Management now provides purchase recommendations for Amazon MemoryDB Reserved NodesIntroducing the Generative AI Center of Excellence for AWS Partners: The Path to AI ExpertiseNew – Block Public Sharing of Amazon EBS SnapshotsNew for Amazon Comprehend – Toxicity DetectionAWS CodeBuild adds support for AWS Lambda compute modeAn Overview of Bulk Sender Changes at Yahoo/GmailCreating a correction of errors documentKnow Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS Management ConsoleUnhoused individuals gain shelter, prove their identity using AWS-powered solution KiipHow VMware partnered with AWS to nurture a culture of sustainabilityHow to Stop Feeding AWS’s AI With Your Data

Last week in security news: The SEC has sued Soalrwinds as well as their CISO, Tracking Malicious Operations of Exposed IAM Keys, Security considerations for running containers on Amazon ECS, and more!Links:The SEC has sued Soalrwinds as well as their CISO personallyCloudKeys in the Air: Tracking Malicious Operations of Exposed IAM Keys Refine permissions for externally accessible roles using IAM Access Analyzer and IAM action last accessed Security considerations for running containers on Amazon ECSThis article AWS put out on Approaches for migrating users to Amazon Cognito user pools is silly since it presupposes Cognito being used

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of November 8, 2023.LinksAWS has been making a lot of noise about generative AIAWS's Responsible AI pageAWS's Service TermsAmazon's updated management policy languageOpt-Out of Amazon AIOpt-Out Terraform moduleOpt-Out Python scriptNever 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 November 6, 2023, with Corey Quinn. LinksAmazon Athena announces one hour reservations for Provisioned CapacityAWS Neuron adds support for Llama-2 70b model and PyTorch 2.0 Filter and Stream Logs from Amazon S3 Logging Buckets into Splunk Using AWS LambdaAnnouncing Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML to reserve GPU capacity for your machine learning workloadsGoDaddy benchmarking results in up to 24% better price-performance for their Spark workloads with AWS Graviton2 on Amazon EMR ServerlessHow contact center leaders can evaluate using generative AI for customer experience Detect and fix low cardinality indexes in Amazon DocumentDBHow power utilities analyze and detect harmonics issues using power quality and customer usage data with Amazon Timestream: Part 2 Techniques to improve the state-of-the-art in Cloud FinOps using Amazon NeptuneMark your calendars for AWS Mainframe Modernization sessions @ re: Invent 2023Ready for Flight: Announcing Finch 1.0 GA!Aggregating, searching, and visualizing log data from distributed sources with Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSightHow to monitor Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) storage costsFullstack generative AI sample app for Amazon Bedrock

Last week in security news: Using AWS role session tags for GitHub Actions, A summary of the Okta hack is pretty damning, IAM Roles Anywhere with an external certificate authority, and more!Links:I like this writeup of using AWS role session tags for GitHub Actions but I hate that I have to use Cognito to pull it off.This summary of the Okta hack is pretty damning.AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge: Announcing a new, independent sovereign cloud in Europe IAM Roles Anywhere with an external certificate authority The key line from this 2018 post remains true: access to the root email and phone number is equivalent, if not more powerful, than the root password and MFA!

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 30, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Aurora MySQL includes optimizations that reduce the database restart time by up to 65%Amazon EKS adds support for customer managed IAM policiesAMI Block Public Access now enabled for all new accounts and existing accounts with no public AMIsAWS Config now supports 19 new resource typesAWS Marketplace announces enhanced private offer user experience for sellersAWS re:Post introduces SelectionsEC2 Hibernate now supports 20 additional instance families on EC2 Spot Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M2 Mac instances for macOS Comparing AWS Lambda Arm vs. x86 Performance, Cost, and AnalysisHow Infosys Built an Enterprise Knowledge Management Assistant Using Generative AI on AWSRotate Your SSL/TLS Certificates Now – Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora Expire in 2024Build ROSA Clusters with TerraformBuild a web-based cryptocurrency wallet tracker with Amazon Managed Blockchain Access and Query Why AWS is the Best Place to Run RustWhat’s top of mind for Chief Data Officers going into 2024?EFA: how fixing one thing, lead to an improvement for … everyone | AWS HPC BlogIs Generative AI the Answer to All Questions?How to download your AWS Resilience Hub assessment results Gain practical experience building with Amazon CodeWhisperer through AWS JamBoost your AWS proficiency with Solution-Focused Immersion DaysSummary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) RegionAWS Disallowing Resale of Reserved Instances that were purchased at a discount

Last week in security news: PR pushback from Microsoft, AWS Cloud Companion Guide for the CSA Cyber Trust Mark, and more!Links:My intense 2am conversation with MSRC a week before BlackHatAWS announces Cloud Companion Guide for the CSA Cyber Trust markSecuring generative AI: An introduction to the Generative AI Security Scoping Matrix

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of October 25, 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-new-frontier-of-cloud-economics-why-aws-costs-are-a-weighty-issueNever 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 October 23, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links:Introducing Amazon EC2 R7i instancesAWS announces Amazon Redshift integration with Visual Studio CodeAWS announces member account level credit sharing preferencesCloudWatch launches out-of-the-box alarm recommendations for AWS servicesLeapfrog from CentOS 7.9 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 with Convert2RHEL and Leapp Utilities on AWSEnhance your security posture by storing Amazon Redshift admin credentials without human intervention using AWS Secrets Manager integrationArchive to cold storage with Amazon DynamoDB Keeping an eye on your cattle using AI technology Top 10 unforgettable moments from AWS GenAI Day Stellantis: driving innovation by investing in employees’ digital skills

Last week in security news: Delegating permission set management and account assignment in AWS IAM Identity Center, How AWS protects customers from DDoS events, The Tip of the Week, and more!Links:Rhino Security has a two part post that talks about how they find Cognito misconfigurationsDelegating permission set management and account assignment in AWS IAM Identity Center How AWS protects customers from DDoS events Now available: Building a scalable vulnerability management program on AWSIssue with Amazon WorkSpaces Windows Client Version 5.9 and 5.10The Tip of the Week is to delegate as much as humanly possible to accounts that aren't the management account for the org. As more services gain the ability to delegate management to designated accounts, it gets easier to restrict access to it

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 16, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:New Amazon CloudWatch metric monitors EC2 instance reachability to EBS volumesAnnouncing AWS Lambda’s support for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for outbound connections in VPC Announcing new AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) availability and performance capabilities Two billion downloads of Terraform AWS Provider shows value of IaC for infrastructure managementWhy purpose-built artificial intelligence chips may be key to your generative AI strategyHow Zalando migrated their shopping carts to Amazon DynamoDB from Apache Cassandra Unlocking cost-optimization: Open Raven’s journey with Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized leads to 60% savingsHow does Cloud enable the transformation of Bank finance functions? AWS Cloud Institute: Virtual training program for cloud developers

Last week in security news: AWS Firewall Manager supports referencing of Security Groups, Secure by Design: AWS to enhance MFA requirements in 2024, You Can't Control Your Data in the Cloud, and more!Links:You Can't Control Your Data in the CloudChris Farris leaked 7 IAM keys in public (intentionally!Chris Farris also writes Security Hub gives me imposter syndromeGoogle is stuffing previously widely available security offerings into incredibly expensive paid-for tiers.AWS Firewall Manager supports referencing of Security GroupsSecure by Design: AWS to enhance MFA requirements in 2024 Reported TorchServe Issue (CVE-2023-43654)Tip of the week: patch the embargoed libcurl high-severity issue that was made public after this recording but before publishing.

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 10, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:Sponsor re:QuinnventAmazon DataZone is now generally availableAmazon EC2 Hibernate now supports more operating systems Lambda test events are now available in AWS SAM CLI Simplify data transfer: Google BigQuery to Amazon S3 using Amazon AppFlowComing November 2023: A new analysis experience on Amazon QuickSightImplement auto-increment with Amazon DynamoDBThe Future of Personal Digital Records: Unlocking Security and Efficiency through Blockchain and Smart ContractsSlack elevates media pipeline with AWS Elemental MediaConvert and Amazon TranscribeIntegrate multiple Microsoft Entra ID tenants with AWS IAM Identity CenterBuilding high-throughput satellite data downlink architectures with AWS Ground Station WideBand DigIF and Amphinicy Blink SDR Save the Date: Join AWS at the Reality Capture Network Conference, Oct 17 – Oct 19, 2023

Last week in security news: When It Comes to Email Security, The Cloud You Pick Matters, Enable external pipeline deployments to AWS Cloud by using IAM Roles Anywhere, How AWS threat intelligence deters threat actors, and more!Links:When It Comes to Email Security, The Cloud You Pick MattersEnable external pipeline deployments to AWS Cloud by using IAM Roles AnywhereGet the full benefits of IMDSv2 and disable IMDSv1 across your AWS infrastructure How AWS threat intelligence deters threat actorsOverhauling AWS Account Access with Terraform

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 2, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Chime adds Waiting Room capability to further secure your meetingsAmazon CloudFront announces security recommendations Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) supports in-place major version upgradeAmazon EC2 Serial Console now available in additional AWS Regions AWS Application Composer now supports all 1000+ AWS CloudFormation resourcesDynamoDB global tables is now available in all AWS Regions Announcing incremental export to S3 for Amazon DynamoDBAmazon Bedrock Is Now Generally Available – Build and Scale Generative AI Applications with Foundation Models How to import existing resources into AWS CDK StacksIntroducing dual-stack and IPv6-only support for Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints

Last week in security news: Accelerating development with AWS CDK plugin – CfnGuardValidator, This week's S3 Bucket Negligence Award is brought to you by PwC Nigeria, The volkswagen open source tool, and more!Links:Last week I talked about AWS Management Console Access incorrectly. My thanks to Timothy Ingalls on the Last Week in AWS community Slack for flagging this for me. Gold star for you!This week's S3 Bucket Negligence Award is brought to you by PwC Nigeria.FusionAuth has a great dive into their annual SOC 2 vendor selection process.My beloved Retool has a post talking about how an MFA failure mode led to a small number of customers being exposed. Accelerating development with AWS CDK plugin – CfnGuardValidator How to implement cryptographic modules to secure private keys used with IAM Roles Anywhere Tool of the week: The volkswagen open source tool detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 25, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links:Today Corey is hosting a drink-up at 6 PM in Seattle at Outer Planet Brewing. If you're in town / free, come on by; let him buy you a beer.Later this week Corey will be hosting an AMA on 9/27 @ noon PDT over on YouTube. Bring questions!Accenture Extends Generative AI Capabilities to Accelerate Adoption and Value on AWS New – Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances Built on Apple Silicon M2 Pro Mac Mini Computers How Chime Financial uses AWS to build a serverless stream analytics platform and defeat fraudsters Centralizing management of AWS Lambda layers across multiple AWS AccountsHandle traffic spikes with Amazon DynamoDB provisioned capacityStreamline interstate Department of Motor Vehicles collaboration with Private Blockchain How to host your Unreal Engine game for under $1 per player with Amazon GameLift How United Airlines built a cost-efficient Optical Character Recognition active learning pipelineHow VirtuSwap accelerates their pandas ... -based trading simulations with an Amazon SageMaker Studio custom container and AWS GPU instancesProvision sandbox accounts with budget limits to reduce costs using AWS Control TowerReducing the Scope of Impact with Cell-Based Architecture - Reducing the Scope of Impact with Cell-Based ArchitectureFrom Massage Therapist to Cloud Associate with AWS Academy

Last week in security news: AWS IAM Identity Center session duration limit increases from 7 to 90 days, Access accounts with AWS Management Console PrivatAccess, A dive through using Amazon Athena in Incident Response, and more!Links:This is an esoteric Firefox/Yubikey compatibility bug that I went blindly stumbling into and has been resolved.Chris Farris has a post up about deploying AWS Backup. In preparation for re:Invent, the MGM had a massive cybersecurity issueAmazon EC2 now supports Block Public Access for Amazon Machine ImagesAWS IAM Identity Center session duration limit increases from 7 to 90 daysAWS Identity and Access Management provides action last accessed information for more than 140 services Access accounts with AWS Management Console Private Access A dive through using Amazon Athena in Incident Response. This is important! Corey will be hosting an AMA on 9/27 @ noon PDT over on Twitch. Bring questions!

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

Last week in security news: Corey reported an over-scoped role to AWS security, The bad LastPass breach got even worse, How to enforce DNS name constraints in AWS Private CA, and more!Links:I reported an over-scoped role to AWS security; the response from the SageMaker Canvas team was that it's working as intended.The bad LastPass breach that continues to get worse once again somehow got worse.Microsoft has published a rather thorough postmortem about how their signing key was leaked.A security newsletter features a scam that I reported via Twitter.Google has gone from paragon of security to apparently now sharing aspects of your browsing history with websites in Chrome,Establishing a data perimeter on AWS: Allow access to company data only from expected networks How to enforce DNS name constraints in AWS Private CA Tool of the week: ThreatMapper hunts for threats in your production platforms, and ranks these threats based on their risk-of-exploit.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of September 13, 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/why-your-cpu-based-utilisation-metric-is-absolute-nonsense/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