brettg98
@curiousorbit.com
Chief Orbiter at Curious Orbit. Building and supporting customer solutions on AWS.
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I just set up my first 'plant stand'. It's at the end of my driveway, and I have basil, thyme, dill, and marigolds. Let's see what happens😀
Needed some time away from the keyboard to let the brain rest a bit, so I potted up a bunch of marigolds. All these came from seeds I collected last fall. I think I have enough to get a 2nd tray going. It's a bit late, so we'll see.
This feels like the '80s are back. I've played this so much recently, my wife is just rolling her eyes 👀 music.youtube.com/watch?v=xkGl...
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Where the heck did the time go?! Seven years helping folks figure out how to leverage the AWS platform for their businesses.
Every time I hear this song, I'm immediately transported back in time to swim team bus trips! youtu.be/tkOr12AQpnU?...
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (Official Music Video) [HD Upgrade]
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CBC News played this just before the 08:30 news, and I was immediately transported back to spending my entire summer on the halfpipe in the backyard. youtu.be/K6YlvPIZw2k?...
De La Soul - Eye Know (Official Lyric Video) ft. Otis Redding
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Sometimes, no matter what you do, things just don’t go your way — even when you’re livestreaming (looking at you, audio gremlins 👿 ). The good news? Even when things don’t go as planned, there’s always a quiet win hiding somewhere. I did end up with a great diagram! Keep building. Keep learning.
“We’re just swapping Cloudflare for CloudFront. Should be easy, right?” This week’s project involved migrating DNS, caching rules, and WAF policies — and trying to avoid waking the dragon. Happy Friday!
CloudFormation deployment bug last week: ✅ Fix = adding a comment to force redeploy 😅 This is why I always use change sets—especially for production. 3 mins from my stream here 👇
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Generative AI (GenAI) 's rapid evolution has transformed how we approach software development. Recently, I leveraged GenAI to help me create 🕵️ VPC Detective. Discover more about VPC Detective on GitHub:
GitHub - brettg98/vpc-detective: VPC Detective scans multiple AWS accounts and regions to generate comprehensive documentation of your VPC infrastructure in an easy-to-read markdown format.
VPC Detective scans multiple AWS accounts and regions to generate comprehensive documentation of your VPC infrastructure in an easy-to-read markdown format. - brettg98/vpc-detective
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A collection of open source #AWS MCP servers is available at #awslabs github.com/awslabs/mcp
GitHub - awslabs/mcp: AWS MCP Servers — specialized MCP servers that bring AWS best practices directly to your development workflow
AWS MCP Servers — specialized MCP servers that bring AWS best practices directly to your development workflow - awslabs/mcp
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Not all AWS costs come from bad decisions. Some just come from... silence. A customer recently got hit with a surprise bill—hundreds of dollars tied to unused EBS volumes left in the “available” state. Not attached, not used—just quietly burning cash. So I built a simple 💬 ChatOps solution 💬
I’ve been using this analogy lately to explain VPC Lattice auth policies: ✅ Network-level policies = NACLs ✅ Service-level policies = Security Groups It’s a layered security model. More power, more complexity. Quick breakdown from a stream 👇
VPC Lattice Authorization Explained with a Simple Security Analogy (NACLs vs. Security Groups)
In this quick clip from a recent livestream, I break down how VPC Lattice authorization works in AWS—and how you can think about its layered policies using a...
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Managing AWS environments across multiple accounts and regions can be complex, especially when it comes to documenting VPC configurations. I often need to get this information quickly for customers, so I developed 🕵️ VPC Detective. You can check it out on GitHub:
GitHub - brettg98/vpc-detective: VPC Detective scans multiple AWS accounts and regions to generate comprehensive documentation of your VPC infrastructure in an easy-to-read markdown format.
VPC Detective scans multiple AWS accounts and regions to generate comprehensive documentation of your VPC infrastructure in an easy-to-read markdown format. - brettg98/vpc-detective
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If your Monday didn't go the way you had hoped I got you - this will straighten it right out 😀 youtu.be/IDI2WQJyE7I?...
Starship - We Built This City (Official Music Video)
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You can now run DeepSeek-R1 on Amazon Bedrock. Would anyone like a stream on this?
DeepSeek-R1 is available fully-managed in Amazon Bedrock - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with DeepSeek-R1 is available fully-managed in Amazon Bedrock
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Amazon Q CLI has been my go-to for AWS-related questions for quite a while now, but this new update is a big one - check it out! buff.ly/HU8WkNt
I'm not sure if my coffee is happy, sad or maybe scared? Have a great Wednesday everyone!
I'm in the process of eating my body weight in pancakes. I don't regret the decision.
a cartoon character is holding a tray of pancakes and pointing at them
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