Good Morning!
Some surprisingly helpful enhancements this week. Good work!
From the Community
Some thoughts on the CodeCommit deprecation.
Richard Boyd pens some thoughts on Cloud Dev Environments.
It turns out that when AWS referenced an S3 bucket that wasn’t there, it allowed an Account Takeover.
Datadog’s State of Cloud Security report is out again.
Podcasts
Last Week In AWS: A Bunch of Great Quality of Life Improvements
Screaming in the Cloud: Replay – Creatively Giving Back to the Cloud Community with Forrest Brazeal
Screaming in the Cloud: Tackling AI, Cloud Costs, and Legacy Systems with Miles Ward
Choice Cuts
Amazon Aurora launches Global Database writer endpoint – This is handy, but could incur cross-region data transfer charges if it shifts while you’re not expecting it.
Amazon Connect now offers screen sharing – This’ll no doubt be super handy for the scammers who like to pretend they’re "Microsoft Windows Support."
Amazon EKS endpoints now support connectivity over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) – This would have been great two years ago. Now it’s just an eyerolled "so soon?"
AWS IAM Identity Center simplifies calls to AWS services with single identity context – This is super useful; it felt like mindless extra drudge work to have to correlate two identity calls previously.
EC2 Image Builder now supports building and testing macOS images – Y’know, I really thought I’d be using more macOS EC2 than I ended up using, due in no small part to Apple’s license requiring 24 consecutive hours every time I spin one up. I want this to be more user friendly, but that’s purely in Apple’s hands; AWS’s hands are tied.
Introducing an enhanced in-console editing experience for AWS Lambda – This thing is great! If you’ve only used previous (read as: crappy) Lambda console editors, give this a spin; you’re in for a treat.
Tools
A visualization of latencies betwixt AWS data centers.
I got to recommend the CDK GitHub Runners to someone last week. I love these things so much.
whispr is a multi-vault secret injection tool for safely injecting secrets into app environments. Please use it or something like it.
… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
