Good Morning!
I was in Maine for last week, and I’m still catching up to being back in civilization. Onward!
From the Community
Eleventeen ways to delete an AWS resource gets at something that’s been annoying me for ages: the complete lack of consistency among resource deletion in various AWS services within the console.
They’re clearly not saying much about it, but AWS got socially engineered into taking down someone’s site.
A fascinating analysis of AWS CloudControl API as an attack tool.
Podcasts
Last Week In AWS: Gartner Phones It In
Screaming in the Cloud: Five Slot Machines at Once: Chris Weichel on the Future of Software Development
Choice Cuts
Deploying AI models for inference with AWS Lambda using zip packaging – Yeah, ignore the inference bits, this is handy for a refresher on the current state of the art for Lambda zip deployments. It’s never a bad idea to refresh yourself on the basics.
Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances – Neither this announcement nor the blog post mention the pricing page, which is hilariously expensive. Note: this is a charge in addition to the underlying cost of the EC2 instances themselves. Is it worth it? Only you know for sure; I’m not you. Just go into it with your eyes open.
Amazon EBS increases the maximum size and provisioned performance of General Purpose (gp3) volumes – It is once again time to rerun your calculations, determine that you now need to use io2 volumes even less than you did previously, and then continue to not do anything about it. I mean… come on folks. The badly-named-but-therwise-excellent Compute Optimizer will help you with this!
Accelerating AWS Infrastructure Deployment: A Practical Guide to Console-to-Code – This highlights the AWS Console-to-Code feature that converts ClickOps to Infrastructure as Code, a badly needed feature that’s been so successful in the market that we all completely forgot it existed until right now.
AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Google – And just like that, I’m left scratching my head at what the point of BuilderID is; it’s now, what, an AWS specific Cognito alternative?
Build a dynamic workflow orchestration engine with Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda – "Here’s how to build a shitty orchestrator out of duct tape and popsicle sticks, for which you will pay, along with the massive engineering time-sink that it takes to build, sustain and support this thing."
AWS Step Functions: "I am standing RIGHT HERE you chucklepony!"
AWS Transfer Family adds support for additional IAM condition keys – Finally, granular IAM controls for your $0.30-per-hour SFTP servers that probably handle three files a day. I wonder what the value of the time people spend playing dumb compliance games with this service is compared to the value of the files it transfers?
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 99 new Amazon EC2 instance types – Every time I turn around I’m surprised by how many more instance types EC2 offers. At what point do they just give us knobs for all the resources and let us spin up our own custom instances?
… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
