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...

cloudar.be

"To further cement the nexus between Microsoft and Europe, going forward our European datacenter operations and their boards will be overseen by a European board of directors that consists exclusively of European nationals and operates under European law." blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

Microsoft announces new European digital commitments - Microsoft On the Issues

As a multinational company, Microsoft believes in trans-Atlantic ties that promote mutual economic growth and prosperity.

blogs.microsoft.com

Hey @rmondello.com, if I remember correctly you were collecting feedback for Passwords. Is that still a thing? If yes, I have 1.5 feature requests targeting power-users. If no, no worries! Passwords is still a heck of a lot more awesome than I expected and I will still fully migrate to it ❣️

Holy heck does the the agenda for AWS Community Day Romania look awesome 🤯 I mean I was expecting it to be *good* but I wan't expecting it to be *this good*. It's amazing! aws-community.ro#agenda

⚠️AWS WAF Bot Control v3.0 will no longer block some AI bots by default❗ I'm breaking my social media no-no and pulling this out of OtherSecretProject since I bet a bunch of people won't carefully read the changelog and docs and AWS intentionally did not call this out 🤦 1/14

FYI: just 11 days left to send your talk proposals for AWS Community Day Romania! 🚀🇷🇴🚀

Apropos of nothing: after the Log4Shell drama the Log4j team got a massive influx of support, a huge and constant influx of money, expert assistance, and corporations&governments started actively supporting their open-source dependencies. Yes yes yes, that is 100% what happened 🙃

FYI: I am very annoyed with social media but I don't wanna give it up so I'll be trying some things. Considered but dismissed for now: - going private - limiting replies + mass blocking - hiding behind a paywall (Twitter subscriptions) - moving off-platform (private groups)

This looks fabulous 🤩 YAS, this is how I want to manage developer environments! TL;DR: Nix but with a proper user experience, similar to what Docker did to containers. It's barely v1 but it looks great and the Flox team seems brilliant 🤞 flox.dev/blog/flox-wh...

flox | Why we built Flox

Flox CLI 1.0 and FloxHub is here! It's a good opportunity to reflect on our own experiences and the reasons we feel Flox is a part of the next generation of software development practices.

flox.dev

If you’re in Paris for KubeCon EU, I’d love to see you! I’ve even 3D printed some earrings to give away!

APAC&EMEA are up and I'm getting way too many DMs about Bloomberg's report that HashiCorp is considering options (including a sale) Let's all chill until 13:30GMT first, m'kay? At that point we'll either 1) know more or 2) not know more and we'll chill because this isn't something we can control 🧘

FYI: I am not at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon — I am not doing in-person conferences in 2024. I'm sorry I won't get to see y'all and I am full of FOMO so please have some extra fun for me!

Person 1: so cloud is somebody else's computer/data-center the same way a dildo is someone else's penis. you know, technically true but so not true — we have glow-in-the-dark ones and dragons and all that Person 2: oh, it's an evolving definition — like the camembert and brie thing! Me:

Late December: I start using App1 more seriously Mid-January: I start using App2 seriously March, looking at the changelogs for both apps: 8 and 12 updates aaand literally every single one has at least 1 bugfix for me 🤣 Ah, I love seeing that my chaotic QA spirit is very much alive 💪

Did anybody write a full timeline for the ✨API client drama✨? You know, the whole Postman did something bad so people moved to Insomnia, Insomnia did something bad so people moved to, Hoppscotch etc etc. It's a perfect and short example of some market forces and I wanna save it.

I hate the "one-way/two-way door decision" bullshit so much. It's condescending executive puffery at its finest 🤢

"C'mon, with the ever-present hero syndrome and with the military language overuse are you really surprised that DevOps has many similarities to the Military Industrial Complex!?!"

🏆 Best line of February 2024 🥇 "Fuck no, I don't wanna compare the number of orgasms I had in 2023 with the number of meetings I had in 2023 — it's a lose-lose: I have so many meetings that'll show I am either underfucked or, arguably worse, overcompensating. Neither is good!"

PSA: internet connections are super-fast these days so keep an eye on data transfer when you're working! This PSA is brought to you by Vlad uploading, deleting, and re-uploading 3TB to S3 Glacier IR. Multiple times. An embarrassingly large number of times 🤦

Developers: ew LLMs suggest such bad code 🤮 Also developers: wow LLMs generate such good business/marketing text 😍 I beg of you all please stop this bullshit — it ruins the message you're trying to communicate and it absolutely does not make you sound "smart" or "business-y"!

If you think of all platform engineering as just Heroku fanfic, it makes a lot more sense.

FYI: I am tentatively trying LinkedIn again. I have no idea if this'll be a thing or not (last time I tried it I rage quit in ~24 hours) buuut some of y'all are having awesome conversations there and some of y'all wanted me there so here we go: www.linkedin.com/in/vlaaaaaaad

I am tentatively trying LinkedIn again! I have no idea how LinkedIn works and the last time I tried it I got so annoyed I deleted it after less than 24 hours, but some of y'all wanted me there and Twitter is a mess so here we go: www.linkedin.com/in/vlaaaaaaad

Pro tip for my alcoholic ADHD followers: go get your bone density checked! The test is called a DEXA/DXA test and it's basically a series of X-rays done while you're laying down — it's super-easy to do and should not be that expensive (~30€ for me).

"No Vlad, don't get a hair transplant! You're at the perfect mid-way point: with that one outfit you look like a college freshman and with that other outfit you look like a middle-age dad 😍 You're hot for both people with daddy issues and for people without daddy issues!"

"Nortel is a good example of this" said Vlad to the room before seeing a bunch of confused faces

‼️ ECS on Fargate now supports EBS Volumes 🚀 For tasks using 16vCPUs the performance quotas are: - 15.000 IOPS - 500 MiBps throughput - 4.500Mbps bandwidth Launch blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/am... Performance docs: docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/la...

Maybe me getting older in 2024 is not so bad

Waaaat, Siri now has image descriptions!?! 🤯 I was doing my beauty routine and I had my AirPods in playing music. I got an iMessage and Siri did not go "Friend sent an image" but instead Siri said "Friend sent a photo of a white cat laying on a grey couch". THAT IS FABULOUS!

Diiiid anybody try using Amazon Verified Access to protect a static website in S3? I am curious enough to ask about it but not curious enough to actually test it 😅 AVA technically can be put in front of any ENI and S3 has VPC Endpoints, so this might work?