Last Week In AWS Podcast

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 11, 2023, with Corey Quinn.

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• 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 Engagement using the AWS Community Engagement Flywheel: Part 1 of 3 
• Simplify Modernization of your monolithic application using Amazon VPC Lattice 
• Celebrate with 12 days of AWS Activate

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 4th, 2023 with Corey Quinn. 

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AWS Morning Brief for November 30th, 2023 with Corey Quinn.

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AWS Morning Brief for November 29th, 2023 with Corey Quinn. 

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AWS Morning Brief for November 28th, 2023 with Corey Quinn.
 
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• 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

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

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

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 20, 2023 with Corey Quinn.
 
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• 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
• Amazon Time Sync Service now supports microsecond-accurate time 
• AWS CloudTrail Lake announces new pricing option optimized for flexible retention
• AWS Cost Explorer now provides more historical and granular data
• AWS announces IPv6 tiered VPCs and subnets
• AWS Lambda console now features a single pane view of metrics, logs, and traces
• Announcing Research and Engineering Studio on AWS 
• Announcing PartyRock, an Amazon Bedrock Playground
• Amazon Bedrock now provides access to Meta’s Llama 2 Chat 13B model 
• Happy anniversary, Amazon CloudFront: 15 years of evolution and internet advancements
• New – Multi-account search in AWS Resource Explorer
• Introducing instance maintenance policy for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling 
• The serverless attendee’s guide to AWS re:Invent 2023 
• Amazon EKS and Kubernetes sessions at AWS re:Invent 2023 
• Optimize AZ traffic costs using Amazon EKS, Karpenter, and Istio Editorial
• Join us for a week of AWS Amplify launches 

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 improve your security incident response processes with Jupyter notebooks
• Tool of the week: If you've gotta use a WAF, aws-firewall-factory is a good pit stop for you.

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
• New – Block Public Sharing of Amazon EBS Snapshots
• New for Amazon Comprehend – Toxicity Detection
• AWS CodeBuild adds support for AWS Lambda compute mode
• An Overview of Bulk Sender Changes at Yahoo/Gmail
• Creating a correction of errors document
• Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS Management Console
• Unhoused individuals gain shelter, prove their identity using AWS-powered solution Kiip
• How VMware partnered with AWS to nurture a culture of sustainability
• How to Stop Feeding AWS’s AI With Your Data