AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 13, 2023 with Corey Quinn. 

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• 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 now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in 6 additional regions 
• AWS announces new competition structure for the 2023 Season
• AWS Resource Explorer supports 12 new resource types
• Announcing lower data warehouse base capacity configuration for Amazon Redshift Serverless
• Meet the Newest AWS Heroes – March 2023 
• Subscribe to AWS Daily Feature Updates via Amazon SNS
• Calculate Amazon DynamoDB reserved capacity recommendations to optimize costs
• How to use deletion protection to enhance your Amazon DynamoDB table protection strategy 
• Push notification engagement metrics tracking 
• Build Cloud Operations skills using the new AWS Observability Training 

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 project to get useful information out of CloudTrail logs.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 6, 2023 with Corey Quinn.

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• Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now supports customer configurable maintenance windows
• Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor is now generally available
• AWS Lambda Powertools for .NET is now generally available
• Amazon Neptune Serverless now scales down to 1 NCU to save costs 
• AWS Control Tower announces a progress tracker for landing zone setup and upgrades
• In the Works – AWS Region in Malaysia 
• New – Amazon Lightsail for Research with All-in-One Research Environments 
• Announcing Amazon ECS Task Definition Deletion 
• Announcing the end of Windows Installer support for AWS Tools for Windows
• “Avatar: The Way of Water” and the future of filmmaking 
• A detailed overview of Trusted Advisor Organizational Dashboard 

Last week in security news: US Military emails leaked on an exposed server, How to monitor and query IAM resources at scale, the Tool of the Week, and more!

Links:

• If you're in Seattle, come to Outer Planet Brewing this Sunday at 7PM and let Corey buy you a drink.
• Aiden Steele writes at length about using a recent enhancement to Systems Manager to pass out a role to all of your EC2 instances.
• US Military emails leaked on an exposed server
• Amazon Detective launches an interactive workshop for investigating potential security issues
• How to monitor and query IAM resources at scale – Part 1 
• Tool of the week: a break-glass role to limit production access to the AWS console

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of March 1, 2023.

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 27, 2023 with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Amazon OpenSearch Service now lets you schedule service software updates during off-peak hours 
• AWS App Runner now supports HTTP to HTTPS redirect
• Announcing the ability to enable AWS Systems Manager by default across all EC2 instances in an account 
• New: AWS Telco Network Builder – Deploy and Manage Telco Networks
• Developing portable AWS Lambda functions
• Using Porting Advisor for Graviton 
• Query data with DynamoDB Shell – a command line interface for Amazon DynamoDB
• AWS and Hugging Face collaborate to make generative AI more accessible and cost efficient
• Branch Insurance improves hiring diversity and accelerates app development using AWS AppSync
• Gain compliance insights using the open source community for AWS CloudTrail 
• The true costs of resiliency decisions 

Last week in security news: More security woes for Azure, the AWS Survival Kit, CloudGPT, and more!

Links:

• A security researcher reported a potential account compromise vector to Azure back in 2021. 
• I once again want to draw your attention to the open source AWS Survival Kit. 
• How to visualize IAM Access Analyzer policy validation findings with QuickSight 
• Updated ebook: Protecting your AWS environment from ransomware
• ChatGPT is all the rage, and of course here's CloudGPT to analyze AWS policies for vulnerabilities
• Scott Piper has a great tip for us this week: think of the vendors / partners who have roles in your AWS account.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of February 22, 2023.

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Last week in security news: Ubiquiti inside attacker pleads guilty, Wiz 2023 State of the Cloud report, the tool of the week, and more!

Links:

• That inside attacker who worked at jackass company Ubiquiti pleads guilty
• Datadog's security folk discovered an AWS Console rate limit bypass
• Wiz 2023 State of the Cloud report
• The anatomy of ransomware event targeting data residing in Amazon S3 
• Tool of the week: aws-firewall-factory