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

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• 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 request headers for HTTP/S notifications
• AWS CodeBuild now supports a small GPU machine type
• Configuring .NET Garbage Collection for Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda
• Integrating with GitHub Actions – Amazon CodeGuru in your DevSecOps Pipeline
• Delete Empty CloudWatch Log Steams
• Growing AWS internet peering with 400 GbE 

Last week in security news: The Many Ways to Access DynamoDB, a Yubikey configuration cheatsheet, and more!

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• 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. 

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• 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 Lambda with Amazon CloudFront to Tailor Content for End Users
• Implementing an event-driven serverless story generation application with ChatGPT and DALL-E
• The Future of Mining is in the Cloud 

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!

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• 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 Network.
• IAM Identity Center for AWS environments spanning AWS GovCloud (US) and standard Regions 
• Establishing a data perimeter on AWS: Allow only trusted resources from my organization
• How to use policies to restrict where EC2 instance credentials can be used from
• Tool of the Week: Nosey Parker

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of March 15, 2023.

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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!

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• 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!

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• 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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