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Episode572

Longer Sessions Are All Right By Me

09.21.2023
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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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Longer Sessions Are All Right By Me

Episode Show Notes

Last week in security news: AWS IAM Identity Center session duration limit increases from 7 to 90 days, Access accounts with AWS Management Console PrivatAccess, A dive through using Amazon Athena in Incident Response, and more!

Links:

  • This is an esoteric Firefox/Yubikey compatibility bug that I went blindly stumbling into and has been resolved.
  • Chris Farris has a post up about deploying AWS Backup. 
  • In preparation for re:Invent, the MGM had a massive cybersecurity issue
  • Amazon EC2 now supports Block Public Access for Amazon Machine Images
  • AWS IAM Identity Center session duration limit increases from 7 to 90 days
  • AWS Identity and Access Management provides action last accessed information for more than 140 services 
  • Access accounts with AWS Management Console Private Access 
  • A dive through using Amazon Athena in Incident Response. This is important! 
  • Corey will be hosting an AMA on 9/27 @ noon PDT over on Twitch. Bring questions!

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