Good Morning!
I’m burned out. I’ve been writing this newsletter without break (except for when my children were born) since early 2017, and it’s time for me to step away for a long vacation.
By the time this lands in your inboxes, I’ll be offline without access to email, Twitter, all of it until September. My best friend and business partner Mike Julian will be taking care of you all, while I disappear for parts unknown. Be good to yourself and to each other; I’ll see you at the end of summer.
…and best of luck to those of you dealing with the Crowdstrike fallout. Oof.
From the Community
Apparently a carefully concealed backdoor in fake AWS files escaped mainstream notice. Oopsie!
Remember when Google sold its domains business to Squarespace? In their rush to divest the business, they left their customers exposed to domain hijacks. Great job, Google. You nailed it. Have an extra promotion this cycle.
Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again writes Luc van Donkersgoed, who is also sick of the obsessive AWS focus on GenAI to the exclusion of all else.
This article Stop Offering Me Amazon Gift Cards strikes at something I’ve viscerally felt for a while. Stop trying to bribe employees to drive your products to their employers.
Podcasts
Last Week In AWS: AWS’s Degenerative AI Obsession
Screaming in the Cloud: Summer Replay – Optimizing Cloud Spend at Airbnb with Melanie Cebula
Screaming in the Cloud: Summer Replay – The Future of Kubernetes with Bryan Liles
Choice Cuts
Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports logging of all events in AWS CloudTrail – This is great and also terrifying in a “wait, what was it doing before” sense.
AWS Cloud Control API now supports IPv6 – Eh… kinda? It doesn’t support IPv6 only operation, as per AWS’s own documentation.
AWS Private CA now supports ARM architecture in Kubernetes – …what?
How Volkswagen streamlined access to data across multiple data lakes using Amazon DataZone – Part 1 – I prefer to remember how Volkswagen cheated on emissions tests to regulators for YEARS personally, but go ahead and swing those customer logos high.
Migrate an Amazon QLDB Ledger to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL – Ugh. So QLDB was deprecated; it’s going away completely next year. For some reason, despite having ~43 RSS feeds I monitor, this is the closest AWS gets to an actual deprecation announcement. Sure, they’ll announce trivial region expansions of forgettable features all day, but a full on service deprecation? Apparently not! Anyway, QLDB was a good database; its only flaw was being a blockchain-adjacent offering that didn’t let customers babble on about blockchain for half a decade.
Tools
This set of reasonable AWS account defaults is surprisingly well crafted. Of course it had to come from an AWS employee doing this on his own time instead of, y’know, being baked into the console so the people who need this the most can easily take advantage of it. Productize this, please?
… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
