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The Spiritual Alignment of Cloud Economics

09.01.2022
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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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The Spiritual Alignment of Cloud Economics

Episode Summary

Last week in security news: LastPass reported another security issue, AWS expanded eligibility for the free MFA security key program, How to centralize findings and automate deletion for unused IAM roles, and more!

Episode Show Notes

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  • Last week LastPass reported (yet another) security issue, wherein their source code was stolen. 
  • Finally: an honest recap of fwd:cloudsec and re:Inforce 2022 from someone who had the stomach to sit through the entirety of the latter.
  • The Register reports on a growing trend of using AWS resources to hide phishing attacks.
  • Expanded eligibility for the free MFA security key program 
  • How to centralize findings and automate deletion for unused IAM roles
  • Identifying publicly accessible resources with Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer 
  • The tool of the week: popeye is a Kubernetes cluster resource sanitizer.

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