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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!

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• 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 

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

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

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• Amazon Chime SDK now offers a Windows client library
• Amazon CloudWatch now supports high resolution metric extraction from structured logs
• AWS SAM CLI introduces ‘sam list’ command to inspect AWS SAM resources 
• Get cost estimates faster with AWS Pricing Calculator bulk import 
• New – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience 
• Introducing the AWS ProServe Hadoop Migration Delivery Kit TCO tool 
• Introducing the Amazon EKS Workshop 
• Using GitHub Actions with Amazon CodeCatalyst 
• Using Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor time to expiration for Reserved Instances 

Links:

• In this down market, it's good to know that jobs paying six (and rarely, seven!) figure salaries, giving bonuses, and of course including paid time off are still out there. Unfortunately they're working for cybercrime groups.
• Ian McKay is great--but given his history of creating awesome-yet-horrifying things in AWS I read this piece on Cedar (AWS's new policy language) 
• Popular drone manufacturer CrowdStrike reports on how Adversaries Can Persist with AWS User Federation,
• How to set up ongoing replication from your third-party secrets manager to AWS Secrets Manager 
• Want to chain roles in a way that works for more than an hour? Role Chain Juggling has you covered. 

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