Last Week In AWS Podcast

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 Matters Enable external pipeline deployments to AWS Cloud by using IAM Roles Anywhere Get the full benefits of IM...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 2, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Chime adds Waiting Room capability to further secure your meetings Amazon CloudFront announces security recommendations   Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) supports in-place major version upgrade Amazon EC2 Serial Console now available in additional AWS Regions   AWS Application Composer now supports al...

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! T...

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...

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 Backu...

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 queues Announcing API Gateway console refresh   Cost Anomaly Detection increases custom anomaly monitor limit to 500 Custom notifications are now available for AWS Chatbot   How to Integrate Amazon CloudWatch Alarms with Atlassian Confluence Kno...

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...

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

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 databases Amazon CloudWatch adds Amazon EKS control plane logs as Vended Logs Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces regular expression filter pattern syntax support As SwiftOnSecurity pointed out a week or two ago, a lot of folks can now discove...

Last week in security news: Barracuda thought it drove 0-day hackers out of customers’ networks, A terrific guide for getting started with AWS security research, “Zukey” or “Amazon Basics Yubikey”, and more! Links: Barracuda thought it drove 0-day hackers out of customers’ networks . A terrific guide for getting started with AWS security research .  Amazon Basics Yubikey Two real-life examples of...

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 queries AWS 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-...

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 dist...

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-t 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 wherever...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 28, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Aurora Global Database introduces Global Database Failover Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached simplifies creating new clusters in the AWS Management Console Improvements to multi-account management for Amazon GuardDuty AWS Certificate Manager introduces Enterprise Controls to help govern certificate issuance AWS Cost...

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 security How to us...

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 voice AWS HealthOmics supports cross-account sharing of omics analytics stores   New – Amazon EC2 M7a General Purpose Instances Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors Amazon OpenSearch Serverless exp...

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 services A deep exploration into how you can really screw up integrating GitHub with AWS . Chris Farris talks about Defining the Sensitive...

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

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 14, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon's approach to RTO Amazon Interactive Video Service announces Real-Time Streaming   Amazon MSK Serverless expands availability to three additional AWS Regions Amazon VPC now supports primary IPv6 address on an elastic network interface AWS Artifact launches email notifications   Announcing AWS Backup logically air-ga...

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 Heroes How to Receive Alert...

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

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 AI Amazon Route 53 adds support for 14 additional Top-Level Domains   AWS NAT Gateway is now available in the AWS US West Phoenix Local Zone Amazon EBS announces up to 128 volume attachments per EC2 instance Introducing Amazon EC2 M7i...

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 workloads If you care about what that stolen Microsoft signing key was capable of, Azure really wishes you would stop asking...

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 Stores New – Amazon EC...

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 iss...