--- title: "Delegate, Delegate, Delegate…" id: "14282" type: "podcast" slug: "delegate-delegate-delegate" published_at: "2023-10-19T10:00:00+00:00" modified_at: "2026-08-20T05:29:54+00:00" url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/delegate-delegate-delegate/" markdown_url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/delegate-delegate-delegate.md" taxonomy_shows: - "Last Week In AWS Podcast" --- About the Author 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. [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-morning-brief/id1466344305](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-morning-brief/id1466344305) [https://overcast.fm/itunes1466344305/aws-morning-brief](https://overcast.fm/itunes1466344305/aws-morning-brief) [https://pca.st/AKs0](https://pca.st/AKs0) [https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/2382583](https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/2382583) [https://open.spotify.com/show/3A04JNrNAcZMvn8cvDWpWU](https://open.spotify.com/show/3A04JNrNAcZMvn8cvDWpWU) [https://feeds.transistor.fm/aws-morning-brief](https://feeds.transistor.fm/aws-morning-brief) ## Episode Summary ## Episode Show Notes & Transcript Last week in security news: Delegating permission set management and account assignment in AWS IAM Identity Center, How AWS protects customers from DDoS events, The Tip of the Week, and more! **Links:** - Rhino Security has a [two part post](https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/attacking-aws-cognito-with-pacu-p1/) that talks about how they find Cognito misconfigurations - [Delegating permission set management and account assignment in AWS IAM Identity Center](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/delegating-permission-set-management-and-account-assignment-in-aws-iam-identity-center/) - [How AWS protects customers from DDoS events](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-aws-protects-customers-from-ddos-events/) - [Now available: Building a scalable vulnerability management program on AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/now-available-how-to-build-a-scalable-vulnerability-management-program-on-aws/) - [Issue with Amazon WorkSpaces Windows Client Version 5.9 and 5.10](https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2023-010/) - The Tip of the Week is to delegate as much as humanly possible to accounts that aren't the management account for the org. As more services gain the ability to delegate management to designated accounts, it gets easier to [restrict access to it](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_best-practices_mgmt-acct.html) View Full Transcript Hide Full Transcript ## You might also like [More Podcast Episodes](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/) ### [The Cost of Prime Day](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-cost-of-prime-day/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 10.12.2026 5 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-cost-of-prime-day/) ### [Your Database Is a Data Lake Now, Apparently](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/your-database-is-a-data-lake-now-apparently/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 10.05.2026 6 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/your-database-is-a-data-lake-now-apparently/) ### [The Week AWS Was Wrong, Not Broken](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-week-aws-was-wrong-not-broken/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 09.28.2026 6 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-week-aws-was-wrong-not-broken/)