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Episode574

Cheating on your CI Tests

09.28.2023
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Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure.

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Cheating on your CI Tests

Episode Show Notes

Last week in security news: Accelerating development with AWS CDK plugin – CfnGuardValidator, This week's S3 Bucket Negligence Award is brought to you by PwC Nigeria, The volkswagen open source tool, and more!

Links:

  • Last week I talked about AWS Management Console Access incorrectly. My thanks to Timothy Ingalls on the Last Week in AWS community Slack for flagging this for me. Gold star for you!
  • This week's S3 Bucket Negligence Award is brought to you by PwC Nigeria.
  • FusionAuth has a great dive into their annual SOC 2 vendor selection process.
  • My beloved Retool has a post talking about how an MFA failure mode led to a small number of customers being exposed. 
  • Accelerating development with AWS CDK plugin – CfnGuardValidator 
  • How to implement cryptographic modules to secure private keys used with IAM Roles Anywhere 
  • Tool of the week: The volkswagen open source tool detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass.

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