Last Week In AWS Podcast

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 episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Sh...

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 episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your...

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 preview Amazon 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 MB AWS Secrets Manager announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement   Build Better...

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_eXNjdMl0 Check out the re:Quinnvent playlist on YouTube Help the show Share your feedback Follow wherever you get your podcasts Buy our merch What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Duckbill Group Apply to work...

AWS Morning Brief for November 30th, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Stay Up To Date with re:Quinnvent Sign up for the re:Quinnvent Newsletter Join the re:Quinnvent Scavenger Hunt Check out the re:Quinnvent playlist on YouTube Help the show Share your feedback Follow wherever you get your podcasts Buy our merch What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Duckbill Gro...

AWS Morning Brief for November 29th, 2023 with Corey Quinn.  Stay Up To Date with re:Quinnvent Sign up for the re:Quinnvent Newsletter Join the re:Quinnvent Scavenger Hunt Check out the re:Quinnvent playlist on YouTube Help the show Share your feedback Follow wherever you get your podcasts Buy our merch What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Duckbill Gr...

AWS Morning Brief for November 28th, 2023 with Corey Quinn.   Links: Elaastic Throughput for EFS Front any existing MySQL or PostgresQL with a GraphQL API Security Hub Multi-Region and Multi-Account Amazon Detective announces investigations for IAM Stay Up To Date with re:Quinnvent Sign up for the re:Quinnvent Newsletter Join the re:Quinnvent Scavenger Hunt Check out the re:Quinnvent playlist on Y...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 27, 2023 with Corey Quinn.  Stay Up To Date with re:Quinnvent Sign up for the re:Quinnvent Newsletter Join the re:Quinnvent Scavenger Hunt Check out the re:Quinnvent playlist on YouTube Help the show Share your feedback Follow wherever you get your podcasts Buy our merch What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the D...

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-hunt Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 20, 2023 with Corey Quinn.   Links: re:Quinnvent Wednesday night drinkup at Atomic Liquors Nature Walk Amazon 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 languages Amaz...

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 impr...

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 forwarding Amazon SQS announces support for JSON protocol AWS Cost Management now provides purchase recommendations for Amazon MemoryDB Reserved Nodes Introducing the Generative AI Center of Excellence for AWS Partners: The Path to AI Expertise...

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 personally CloudKeys in the Air: Tracking Malicious Operations of Exposed IAM Keys   Refine permissions for externally accessible roles using...

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of November 8, 2023 . Links AWS has been making a lot of noise about generative AI AWS's Responsible AI page AWS's Service Terms Amazon's updated management policy language Opt-Out of Amazon AI Opt-Out Terraform module Opt-Out Python script Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 6, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links Amazon Athena announces one hour reservations for Provisioned Capacity AWS 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 Lambda Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML to reserve GPU capacity for your machine learning workloads G...

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 Pledg...

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 policies AMI Block Public Access now enabled for all new accounts and existing accounts with no public AMIs AWS Config now supports 19 new resource types AWS Marketplace announces...

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 BlackHat AWS announces Cloud Companion Guide for the CSA Cyber Trust mark Securing 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-issue Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share yo...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 23, 2023, with Corey Quinn.  Links: Introducing Amazon EC2 R7i instances AWS announces Amazon Redshift integration with Visual Studio Code AWS announces member account level credit sharing preferences CloudWatch launches out-of-the-box alarm recommendations for AWS services Leapfrog from CentOS 7.9 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 with Convert2RHEL and Leap...

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 misconfigurations Delegating permission set management and account assignment in AWS IAM Identity Center   How AWS protects cus...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 16, 2023 with Corey Quinn.   Links: New Amazon CloudWatch metric monitors EC2 instance reachability to EBS volumes Announcing 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...

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 Cloud Chris Farris leaked 7 IAM keys in public (intentionally! Chris Farris also writes Security Hub gives me imposter syndrome Google is stuffing previously...

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 10, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Sponsor re:Quinnvent Amazon DataZone is now generally available Amazon 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 AppFlow Coming November 2023: A new analysis experience on Amazon QuickSight Impl...