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Links: Amazon Chime announces new mobile apps with features to improve your meeting experience Amazon Detective improves search by supporting case insensitivity   AWS Activate is now open to all startups   AWS CloudFormation StackSets increases limits on three service quotas AWS IQ now supports partners and independent consultants in Australia, Europe, Japan, and other regions Announcing a new Cos...

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 Tower IAM Access Analyzer makes it simpler to author and validate role trust policies   Tool of the week: cleanup-aws-access-keys

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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 requests Amazon SageMaker Clarify now can provide near real-time explanations for ML predictions   AWS Lambda Functions powered by AWS Graviton2 now availab...

Links: AWS RDS Aurora wish list   The Confusing Lifetimes of AWS IAM Identity Center Access Tokens AWS announces updated Support Plans Console with new IAM controls How to automatically build forensic kernel modules for Amazon Linux EC2 instances Tool of the week: aws-security-survival-kit  

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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   A...

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...

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, September 26th with Corey Quinn.

Links: If you're near Arlington Virgina, come on by Highline this evening at 7PM and let me buy you a drink. Are you confused by AWS's KMS service? Me too. This guide to KMS helped a lot--and you really don't want to be confused by security things. BHIM leaks the details of 7.26 million users and scores themselves an S3 Bucket Negligence Award in the process. Stop doing this! Securely Using Extern...

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 19th, 2022 with Corey Quinn.

Links: Nick Frichette wrote an incredibly handy guide on the ordered steps to take to avoid CloudFront or DNS domain takeovers on AWS. This handy walkthrough talks about how to configure something that shrieks its head off whenever someone logs into AWS via the root account . The Center for Internet Security just released an update to the AWS version of their security benchmarks, and this approach...

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 12, 2022 with Corey Quinn.

Links: 1Password frankly got it wrong with their assertion that you shouldn't bother with MFA for 1Password itself .  Joe Frichette has a handy guide on the ordered steps to take to avoid CloudFront or DNS domain takeovers on AWS Over 1,000 iOS apps found exposing hardcoded AWS credentials Chris Farris has a great post covering how to handle Incident Response in AWS . Announcing new AWS IAM Identi...

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 5, 2022 with Corey Quinn.

Links: Last week LastPass reported (yet another) security issue, wherein their source code was stolen .  Finally: an honest recap of fwd:cloudsec and re:Inforce 2022 from someone who had the stomach to sit through the entirety of the latter. The Register reports on a growing trend of using AWS resources to hide phishing attacks . Expanded eligibility for the free MFA security key program   How to...

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 29, 2022 with Corey Quinn.

Links: Fascinating allegations have come from Twitter's former CISO about an alleged trashfire approach to security intrinsic to their culture. Microsoft employees exposed their own Azure credentials via GitHub A fascinating discovery by the folks at Wiz How to detect suspicious activity in your AWS account by using private decoy resources   Remember to opt out of AWS AI data usage .

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