Good Morning!
It seems AWS didn’t want to put out a notification in the What’s New feed to mention that Private CAs now support up to 20 million certificates, despite the usual inane drivel that makes it into that feed. This change is actually helpful to customers, but I suppose it’s de-prioritized since it doesn’t feature AI.
From the Community
I’m usually not super inclined to believe random accounts of what an Amazon CoE looks like, but given that this is written by by a current Amazonian I’m gonna say this is pretty close to accurate.
A sneaky-sneaky way to get principal names from keys without setting off alarms in many environments.
I’ve been meaning to write some thoughts about AI code editors for a while, but I needn’t have bothered since Redmonk’s James Governor is on the case.
– I’m giving a remarkably on-brand Lightning Talk at SREcon25 in Santa Clara called "For the AWS Bill is Dark, and Full of Terrors." Come heckle me; get $100 off of registration with code AWSRECON25100. See you there!
Podcasts
Last Week In AWS: Mortgaging the new AWS Trust Center
Choice Cuts
Amazon Connect reduces telephony pricing in Vietnam – So if you’re:
- Using Amazon Connect
- From the Singapore region
- To handle calls to and from Vietnam
you can save a boatload of money. So take that, all of you haters who say AWS doesn’t make broad price cuts to services that impact every customer anymore.
Amazon EC2 announces Time-based Copy for AMIs – You can specify a copy time target from 15 minutes to 48 hours. I do find myself wondering just what the hell you people are putting inside AMIs that’ll take 48 hours to copy between regions, though. How big are these things? Wait, in 2022 they expanded the AMI size limit to… 5 terabytes?! Oh snap I’m using that as a database now.
Amazon Location Service now supports AWS PrivateLink – What a useless expensive feature this is. You could replace this with a simple API that responds with a string: "You are in an AWS VPC subnet, duh." Surely I’m not missing a key nuance here.
Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now available in Amazon Bedrock – Underpants outside the pants speed on the tail of Anthropic’s own announcement, this enhancement is better in every way except that I have to inexplicably prepend us. to the model ID now if I want it to work in my existing codebase. Why? Because GenAI.
AWS Batch now supports resource aware scheduling – It didn’t before? What was it doing, just running a static list of things it wanted without rhyme nor reason? That’s not an AWS service, that’s a shell script the intern wrote.
AWS Chatbot is now named Amazon Q Developer – I have a bunch of thoughts on this that aren’t particularly flattering to AWS.
AWS CodePipeline introduces new console experience for viewing pipeline releases – "The console isn’t shitty anymore" claims the AWS newsfeed that’s systematically incapable of showing a screenshot of what the new console might look like.
You can now use your China UnionPay credit card to create an AWS account – Sadly, until the (absolutely excellent) AWS trust and safety group goes on a long vacation together, you remain unable to use someone else’s China UnionPay credit card to create an AWS account.
Accelerate Security Incident Response and Recovery with AWS Security Incident Response Partners – This is great! No, not for customers, for AWS partner managers, and also optometrists who want a new eye chart of tech company logos with which to test patients for distance vision.
Amazon Web Services named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools – This is a weird post to make. It sounds great, but when you look at the image, every other company in the Good Quadrant (specifically, Google, SAP, Oracle, Informatica, Microsoft, IBM, and some companies I think are made up, namely Qlik, Denodo, and "Ab Initio Software") score higher on the "completeness of vision" axis. Even at my small scale, my CEO would kick the shit out of me if I posted something demonstrating how all of my competitors were kicking the shit out of me, but I guess that’s just an aspect of big business I’ll never understand.
Migrate very large databases to Amazon Aurora MySQL using MyDumper and MyLoader – "You can put it in MyDumper" says the US-based company who’s very clearly never met an Australian before, then wonders why a certain subset of the audience just broke composure.
Announcing CDK Garbage Collection – This is an extremely hurtful way to refer to the community’s CDK Patterns site.
Generate Code Documentation Using Amazon Q Developer – Okay, if it’s so good at this, then why does much of the AWS service documentation appear to have been written by a gerbil?
ByteDance processes billions of daily videos using their multimodal video understanding models on AWS Inferentia2 – With typical AWS subtlety, the only place the term "TikTok" appears in this entire article is in the biographies of its authors. Oh, they mention a host of other ByteDance properties: CapCut, e-Shop, Lark, Pico, and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. But never once TikTok, because that one’s politically charged.
Unlock deeper insights and faster investigations with AWS CloudTrail Lake – Okay, shut up–this is awesome. I’ve been saying for multiple years that CloudTrail Lake is the future. It charges upfront for storage up to 7 years, so keeping audit logs is no longer an investment decision down the road, so everyone should be using it. Querying it is super simple, and I want more people to know about it. Specifically, I want more AWS service teams to know about it. HI CONTROLTOWER FRIENDS!
Tools
Holy crap, I knew following Simon Williamson would pay off in a variety of ways, and sure enough uv is a great way to manage Python environments that’s entirely new to me.
… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
