This. If you are using AI but do not want to disclose that, maybe consider if you should be using AI for that task.

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)@lizthegrey.com · 7d ago

just fucking disclose when you use AI, it's not the end of the world. this post, for instance, is AIL-0, but sometimes, yes, I do post higher AIL content, and that's disclaimed when it is.

I don't know how recent this is, but it looks like the s3 console stopped returning the actual CreationDate of a bucket, when not using the us-east-1 endpoint (the API already behaved this way, the docs say "[CreationDate] can change when making changes to your bucket") /cc @awscloud.bsky.social

While it's not called "I prefer speed over automatic rollbacks and validated propagation"-mode, with the improvements that have been deployed in the last few years, it's becoming harder and harder to say that CloudFormation is a slow way to deploy. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

#aws #cdk #cloudformation | Idriss LAOUALI ABDOU, MBA

🚀 Yesterday we shipped 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐖𝐒 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐃𝐊. Developers and AI agents iterating on infrastructure can now get deployment confirmation in seconds instead of waiting for full res...

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AWS: Here are Lambda MicroVMs for isolated execution of user and AI-generated code @awsteele.com: Let me add SSH and Kubernetes support github.com/aidansteele/...

GitHub - aidansteele/microvm-fun: A sample repo showing Kubernetes running on a fleet of AWS Lambda MicroVMs, and the ability to SSH into MicroVMs

A sample repo showing Kubernetes running on a fleet of AWS Lambda MicroVMs, and the ability to SSH into MicroVMs - aidansteele/microvm-fun

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Next week (May 27) I'll be in Amsterdam to give a talk at the AWS Summit. I'll be presenting "That's allowed? Using IAM Roles Anywhere without AWS Private CA" in the Community Developer Zone at 11:30. Before and after you can find me at the Cloudar booth (G11). Looking forward to see people there!

Java developers and their weird requirements

☁️ 🇪🇺 The third edition of fwd:cloudsec Europe will take place on September 7-8 in London! The CFP has just opened, we're looking forward to your submissions! fwdcloudsec.org/conference/e...

fwd:cloudsec Europe 2026 | fwd:cloudsec

fwd:cloudsec is a non-profit conference on cloud security. At this conference you can expect discussions about all the major cloud platforms, both attack and defense research, limitations of security...

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AWS send us an email saying our t3.micro Managed RabbitMQ instance would go out of support in October 2026. The next available supported option is m7g.medium, which is more than 5 times as expensive. I've been on record about my problems with AMQ pricing, but still: 🤯 cc @awscloud.bsky.social

Tickets, scholarships, and sponsor info TBA, but interested sponsors can reach us at sponsorship@fwdcloudsec.org fwd:cloudsec EU will be at the Park Plaza Victoria in London, UK on September 7 and 8. The Call for Sponsors is at: fwdcloudsec.org/assets/docs/...

We've locked in dates and venues for the North American (NA) and European (EU) fwd:cloudsec conferences this year! fwd:cloudsec NA will be in the Seattle, Washington area at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue on June 1 and 2. 🧵

Probably drowned in all the other announcements (if it was even announced at all), but I'm very happy to read this on the blog post met initial services for AWS's European Sovereign Cloud (aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi...) "Amazon CloudFront is expected to be available in by the end of 2026."

Had some real Australian food at Outback steakhouse!

I'm at #AWSreinvent this week (reach out if you're also here!), so you might see some replies to this with thoughts about keynote announcements (I don't think they count as spoilers)

If you are attending AWS re:Invent this year and are wondering which sessions you can still reserve a seat for now that the first rush is over; I made you a list of sessions I added to my short list that are not at capacity yet: reinvent-planner.cloud/sessions/sha...

Time to start practicing how to say "eusc-de-east-1"

Usually I'm the one called by work after hours, but today I'm watching my partner deal with "our -80 freezer is not cooling anymore" on a Friday evening. It starts surprisingly similar to "our server is running out of disk space"... but ends with a lot more people with protective gloves in one room

I'm biased, but +1.

Nick Frichette@frichetten.com · 11mo ago

@fwdcloudsec.org Europe 2025 was incredible! Amazing talks, amazing research, and amazing people. There is no other conference I would recommend for cloud security people. Looking forward to next year!

I'm on my way home from a very inspiring week!

Ross Barich@rossbarich.bsky.social · 12mo ago

What an amazing week in Seattle at the AWS Heroes Summit! Heroes- you're an inspiring group, who uplift and mentor so many in your communities, while also pushing for innovation out of AWS. Thank you for all that you do, and a special shout-out to the newest Heroes🙏👏

I just witnessed this perfectly geeky exchange at work: - I'm going to cache 404 errors for 30 seconds - What about 418 errors? - 3 to 4 minutes seems the most common time that people wait - How about we follow ISO 3103 and do 6 minutes exactly?

This is art: secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg...

I did a fun thing and gave every Belgian access to my AWS Account (or: playing around with IAM Roles Anywhere) cloudar.be/awsblog/sign...

Sign in with your eID: Using AWS IAM Roles Anywhere with a SmartCard Reader

Using temporary credentials to access resources, has long been a best practice and is usually straight-forward if the person or machine that is starting the action is already known in AWS (either by u...

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There's still time to apply for our scholarship which aims to give students or career changers a ticket and travel stipend to attend fwd:cloudsec Europe in Berlin, this September! Details here: fwdcloudsec.org/assets/docs/...

AWS documentation: "just trust me, bro" Jenkins documentation: 🚨🚨🚨

The CFP for fwd:cloudsec Europe is now open! We're looking for practitioner-focused cloud security content, and we encourage all practitioners to submit, whatever your role or level of experience. The CFP is open until July 11th. Read more: fwdcloudsec.org/conference/e...

CFP | EU 2025 | fwd:cloudsec

fwd:cloudsec is a non-profit conference on cloud security. At this conference you can expect discussions about all the major cloud platforms, both attack and defense research, limitations of security...

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Time to reset the "days since an AI-guessed configuration option blew up in someone's face" counter...

This is a very niche thing, but there is now a (not canonical) place with all the smithy models of all the AWS API supported by the AWS CLI: github.com/aws/api-mode... This does not include all available models, for that we still need @frichetten.com 's repo github.com/Frichetten/a...

We’re thrilled to announce that the second edition of fwd:cloudsec Europe will take place on September 15-16 in Berlin! fwdcloudsec.org/conference/e...

fwd:cloudsec Europe 2024 | fwd:cloudsec

fwd:cloudsec is a non-profit conference on cloud security. At this conference you can expect discussions about all the major cloud platforms, both attack and defense research, limitations of security...

fwdcloudsec.org

Besides hanging out on the internet, I also play in a symphonic windband. This weekend we (narrowly) placed first in the Flemish Open Windband Championship, securing a ticket to the European Championship for Wind Orchestras. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Koninklijk HarmonieOrkest Schelle wint Vlaams kampioenschap voor harmonies na ex aequo

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Messages like this always warm my heart. Cloud security research is all about improving the safety and security of the platform to protect users.

Load management is all around us - from restaurants handling the lunch rush to cloud systems balancing millions of requests. Mike Haken’s latest Builders' Library article shows how the principles never change: detect early, adapt quickly, degrade gracefully. aws.amazon.com/builders-lib...