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Last Week In AWS Podcast

Corey Quinnwww.lastweekinaws.com
The latest in AWS news, sprinkled with snark. Posts about AWS come out over sixty times a day. We filter through it all to find the hidden gems, the community contributions--the stuff worth hearing about! Then we summarize it with snark and share it with you--minus the nonsense.
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Episodes

Cadence Is Culture: Why Amazonians Need to Overload Us at re:Invent

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_amazon_cant_end_the_release_tidal_wave/ Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/eKMxBNF5N-k 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 podcasts What's Corey up to? F...

Aug 10, 20229 minEp. 421

Single Sign On, Multiple Names

Links: 35K GitHub repos had been compromised by malware. GitHub security issued a response within 24 hours showing what their findings indicate and clarifying the situation. Scale your workforce access management with AWS IAM Identity Center (previously known as AWS SSO) Welcoming the AWS Customer Incident Response Team - Surprisingly this doesn't require a paid support plan. iamlive generates IAM policies from AWS calls via client-side monitoring...

Aug 04, 20225 minEp. 419

Are AWS account IDs sensitive information?

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. 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 podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Duckbill Group Apply to work with Corey and the Duckbill Group to help lower your AWS bill...

Aug 03, 20228 minEp. 418

Never Gonna Shut Me Up

Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/Q2Zpg5jQe-Q 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 podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Duckbill Group Apply to work with Corey and the Duckbill Group to help lower your AWS bill...

Jul 28, 20225 minEp. 416

The Mental Breakdown of Auto-Remediation

Links: The Nigerian government scores this week's S3 Bucket Negligence Award New Air-Gap Attack Uses SATA Cable as an Antenna to Transfer Radio Signals Automatically block suspicious DNS activity with Amazon GuardDuty and Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Use Security Hub custom actions to remediate S3 resources based on Macie discovery results There has been significant improvement to the AWS IAM documentation around IAM best practices. Artillery lets you use Lambdas for open source load testing ....

Jul 27, 20225 minEp. 415

AWS's Disclosure Improvements

Links: Things I wish I knew about AWS WAF - Bot Control How to Protect Your Data from Ransomware with S3 Object Lock It seems that Experian has learned nothing from its string of data breaches The Makati city government is the winner of this week's S3 Bucket Negligence award. A quick overview of AWS principals, identity-based policies, and resource-based policies . Eligible customers can now order a free MFA security key Reported EKS IAM Authenticator Issue I found a handy script that someone be...

Jul 21, 20226 minEp. 413

Azure's Security Vulnerabilities are Out of Control

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/azures_vulnerabilities_are_quack Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/5iTxtBnCPys 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 podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey...

Jul 20, 20229 minEp. 412

AWS Bakery: Rolls Everywhere

Links: My article on the dangers of chatbots led someone to share this concern-affirming tale . Extend AWS IAM roles to workloads outside of AWS with IAM Roles Anywhere How to tune TLS for hybrid post-quantum cryptography with Kyber hasIAMfailedopenyet.com is a site that triggers a Lambda function on every invocation that attempts to access something it cannot....

Jul 14, 20225 minEp. 410

My Security Posture

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/coreys-security-posture-2022 Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/dHDY69hIvvk 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 podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on ...

Jul 13, 202215 minEp. 409

Azure Insecurity Templates

Links: The most recently reported Azure vulnerability Amazon Photos exposes customers to risk I (re)discovered Scott Piper's work on Lesser Known Techniques for Attacking AWS Environments . PyPi python packages get caught sending stolen AWS keys to unsecured sites . TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS protocol level for all AWS API endpoints GuardDuty has new findings CloudFormation Guard had a new release....

Jul 07, 20225 minEp. 407

The ChatOps Issue That No One's Chatting About

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-chatops-issue-no-ones-chatting-about Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/eBKZ71OLjG8 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 podcasts What's Corey up to? Foll...

Jul 06, 20228 minEp. 406

Enter Your Passwordle

Links: Azure has another security issue around its Synapse offering; this one was discovered by Tenable . Sysdig has a dive into the real threats to SSH on EC2. Tailscale has announced the ability to support Tailscale SSH. Chris Farris has a treatise on the The Philosphy of Prevention when it comes to cloud security. Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables asks whether security analogies are counterproductive . A security issue of sorts was discovered around sts:GetSessionToken Role Chaining in AWS The ...

Jun 30, 20225 minEp. 404

9 Ways AWS Made Me Headdesk When Using The CDK

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-ways-aws-cdk-headdesk Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/3Mf3_l6iEtA 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 podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitt...

Jun 29, 202217 minEp. 403

Bugcrowd Bugs the Crowd

Links: Travis CI continues to be a security nightmare . Implementing IAM Permission Boundaries with AWS SSO using Terraform A user reported a vulnerability to a company through Bugcrowd. The writeup is really worth reviewing. The RSA conference was apparently a super spreader event . Because nobody beats the Wiz, they've got a post up on the secret agents installed by cloud service providers . Partitioning and Isolating Multi-Tenant SaaS Data with Amazon S3 Service Notice – Upcoming changes requ...

Jun 23, 20226 minEp. 401

Should I Take a Job at AWS?

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/should-you-take-a-job-at-aws/ Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/BCiUulzr9f8 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 podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on...

Jun 22, 202216 minEp. 400

Add a Mantium

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 20, 2022 with Corey Quinn.

Jun 21, 20226 minEp. 399

Kubernetes Firewalln't

Links: Azure’s continuing security woes The Meeting Owl videoconference device apparently had significant security problems Brandon Sherman writes about how Temporal structures its access control strategy with regard to AWS This week's S3 Bucket Negligence Award goes to Mobike. Cloud Functions or Cloud Run launched from any GCP organization can bypass Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Authorized Networks restrictions Proof of someone migrating to SSO and disabling IAM users entirely . AWS blog post...

Jun 16, 20227 minEp. 398

re:Invent Keynote 2026: Analysis

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/reinvent-keynote-incident/ Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/NGvLMsf4Wg8 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 podcasts...

Jun 15, 20229 minEp. 397

Azure's Nightmare Year

Links: Nick Jones' review of the AWS Security Model I linked to previously . Microsoft Azure has seen 6 'nightmare' cloud security flaws over the past year . Unsecured Elasticsearch Data Replaced with Ransom Note AWS Systems Manager announces support for port forwarding to remote hosts using Session Manager When and where to use IAM permissions boundaries Security vulnerability in AWS's Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow...

Jun 09, 20225 minEp. 395

The Strange, Too Familiar Tale of Uncle Suitcase

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-strange-too-familiar-tale-of-uncle-suitcase/ Want to watch the full dramatic reenactment of this podcast? Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/x70EypnAH1Y 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 podcasts What's Corey up ...

Jun 08, 20227 minEp. 394

Googling the AWS CDK V1

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 6, 2022, with Corey Quinn.

Jun 06, 20227 minEp. 393

RSA Prelude

Links: Poisoned Python and PHP packages purloin passwords for AWS access No, your cloud environment doesn't need a sandbox Spring 2022 SOC reports are now available with 150 services in scope Canary Tokens...

Jun 02, 20224 minEp. 392
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