Last Week In AWS Podcast

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 15, 2023 with Corey Quinn.  Links: Introducing Amazon EC2 I4g storage-optimized instances Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports pgvector for simplified ML model integration   Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) is now available in two additional AWS Regions   Private Access to the AWS Management Console is generally available AWS Systems Manager now allows c...

Last week in security news: Containing Compromised EC2 Credentials Without (Hopefully) Breaking Things, How to scan your AWS Lambda functions with Amazon Inspector, AWS IAM Actions, And More! Links: The parenthetical in Containing Compromised EC2 Credentials Without (Hopefully) Breaking Things says it all.  Amazon S3 now applies two security best practices to all new buckets by default How to scan...

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of May 10, 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/9-things-I-love-about-aws 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 get your podc...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 8, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Announcing Provisioned Capacity for Amazon Athena Amazon EFS Replication is now available in all AWS Regions Amazon Redshift launches ra3.xlplus instances in additional Middle East, Europe and Asia Pacific Regions   AWS Compute Optimizer now supports filtering by tags AWS Console Mobile Application launches push notifications A...

Last week in security news: Tailscale now offers network flow logs, Google had a GhostToken flaw, AWS reported an issue with IAM supporting multiple MFA devices, and more! Links: Tailscale now offers network flow logs Google had a GhostToken flaw that let attackers backdoor Google accounts. The folks at SADA found a major bug in Google Cloud; apparently it had the potential to expose the private k...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 1, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Condolences to my AWS friends affected by last week's layoffs ; if I can help, please let me know. Amazon CloudWatch Logs data protection is now available in all AWS Commercial Regions   AWS Firewall Manager adds support for multiple administrators AWS Systems Manager now supports AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) applications  ...

Last week in security news: Dealing with Ransomware in the Cloud, Pen Testing AWS, How to prioritize IAM Access Analyzer findings, and more! Links: Last Week in AWS job board   AWS had two (minor) Cross-Tenant Vulnerabilities within AWS App Runner. Some company called Invictus has practical experience dealing with ransomware in the cloud Chris Farris has a post on Pen Testing AWS . Dark Reading po...

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of April 26, 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-aws-might-be-the-next-backbone-provider 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 wherev...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 24, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: If you're around tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 6PM, I'll be at The Ramp in SF ; let me buy you a drink. Announcing Dev Environment dashboard for Amazon CodeCatalyst (Preview)   Amazon DynamoDB now supports up to 50 concurrent table restores Amazon EC2 supports Ubuntu Pro operating system in a subscription-included model Amazon...

Last week in security news: Creating an AWS Backup Account, Azure had another cross-tenant access vulnerability, Security Hub Hurts My Self-Esteem, and more! Links: Corey hosted a partner panel at AWS Container Day at KubeCon  This post on using OIDC to secure your CI/CD pipelines mirrors what I did with GitHub actions a year or so ago. Teri Radichel has a piece on Creating an AWS Backup Account S...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 17, 2023 with Corey Quinn. This week is RSA in San Francisco; I'll be haunting the expo hall at some point, so if you're in town say hi. Links: The Last Week in AWS Job Board continues to thrive; thanks for your ongoing support. Amazon Chime SDK updates Service Level Agreement Amazon CodeWhisperer is now generally available Amazon Connect now enables agents...

Last week in security news: Logging strategies for security incident response, A Department of Energy report shows some rather serious gaps in security monitoring, A dedicated repository of winners of the S3 Bucket Negligence Awards, and more! Links: Zoom took an outage and the message was clearly AWS generated. Root cause? Misconfigured SCP . A Department of Energy report shows some rather seriou...

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of April 12, 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/localstack-why-local-development-for-cloud-workloads-makes-sense 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 feed...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 10, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Console Toolbar is now generally available for AWS CloudShell Announcing CSV Export for AWS Resource Explorer Search Results Announcing Utilization Notifications for EC2 On-Demand Capacity Everything you need to know about AWS Billing Conductor’s new pricing model How to use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor Amazon DynamoDB table...

Last week in security news: Gain insights and knowledge at AWS re:Inforce 2023, InvalidClientTokenId, a repository of AWS customer breaches, and more! Links: If you're in New York City proper, I hope to see you tonight at 7PM at Vol de Nuit We're hiring an Account Exec to handle media sales for this very podcast. Should you be the person who refers the successful candidate, we'll give you a $3K US...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 3, 2023 with Corey Quinn.  Links: Amazon Kendra launches Featured Results   AWS Chatbot now supports search of AWS resources and AWS content   AWS Copilot adds support for full customization with AWS CDK or YAML overrides   AWS re:Post now includes AWS Knowledge Center articles New Cost Explorer users now get Cost Anomaly Detection by default Introducing Dat...

Last week in security news: Github accidentally published its RSA host keys for SSH, Automate IAM credential reports for large AWS Organizations, The Tool of the Week, and more! Links: Sad news; infosec luminary Kelly ‘Aloria’ Lum has regrettably passed away. Automate IAM credential reports for large AWS Organizations Github accidentally published its RSA host keys for SSH. How to use Amazon Macie...

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of 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 Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your pod...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 27, 2023 with Corey Quinn.  Links: Allow Listing tool for testing new Billing, Cost Management and Account console permissions   Amazon CloudWatch Logs adds support for new Amazon VPC Flow Logs metadata   Amazon EC2 C6in, M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn metal instances are now available Amazon SNS (pronounced "Snizz") announces support for setting content-type...

Last week in security news: The Many Ways to Access DynamoDB, a Yubikey configuration cheatsheet, and more! Links: The Many Ways to Access DynamoDB   Scott Piper’s post on redacting AWS account IDs from public posts How to use Google Workspace as an external identity provider for AWS IAM Identity Center   Yubikey configuration cheatsheet

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 20, 2023 with Corey Quinn.  Links: jobs.lastweekinaws.com Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances now support in-place operating system updates Announcing Amazon Linux 2023   AWS Chatbot now available in Microsoft Teams   Announcing cross-account support for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points   Talk about cloud with a non-cloud audience   New – Use Amazon S3 Object La...

Last week in security news: U.S. Officials are frustrated with cloud providers, Best Practices For Securing Your Home Network, The Tool of the Week, and more! Links: U.S. officials express significant frustration that cloud providers often up-charge customers to add security protections Lightspin has a guide to SecDataOps and Vulnerability Management on AWS Best Practices For Securing Your Home Ne...

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of March 15, 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/awss-anti-competitive-move-hidden-in-plain-sight/ 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 w...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 13, 2023 with Corey Quinn.  Links: jobs.lastweekinaws.com Amazon EC2 announces the ability to create Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that can boot on UEFI and Legacy BIOS   AWS Application Composer is now generally available AWS CloudShell now supports the modular variant of AWS Tools for PowerShell   AWS Config now supports 18 new resource types   AWS Lambda n...

Last week in security news: Audit Log Wall of Shame, More info on the LastPass breach, the Tool of the Week, and more! Links: Audit Log Wall of Shame Saudi social media app Fayvo apparently had an unsecured database More information has come to light about the LastPass breach Three ways to boost your email security and brand reputation with AWS Tool of the week: Trailscraper is an open source proj...