Issue #115
Monday · April 24, 2023
🥗 AWS security blogs
- Protect your Amazon Cognito user pool with AWS WAF — Many of our customers use Amazon Cognito user pools to add authentication, authorization, and user management capabilities to their web and mobile applications. You can enable the built-in advanced security in Amazon Cognito to detect and block the use of credentials that have been compromised elsewhere, and to detect unusual sign-in activity …
- Use IAM roles to connect GitHub Actions to actions in AWS — Have you ever wanted to initiate change in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account after you update a GitHub repository, or deploy updates in an AWS application after you merge a commit, without the use of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user access keys? If you configure an OpenID …
- How to prioritize IAM Access Analyzer findings — AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer is an important tool in your journey towards least privilege access. You can use IAM Access Analyzer access previews to preview and validate public and cross-account access before deploying permissions changes in your environment. For the permissions already in place, one of IAM …
- A sneak peek at the data protection sessions for re:Inforce 2023 — A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code secure150off to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last. AWS re:Inforce is fast approaching, and this post can help you plan your agenda. AWS re:Inforce is a security learning conference where you can gain skills and confidence …
🍛 Reddit threads on r/aws
- Python 3.10 Runtime Now Supported in Lambdas — https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/04/aws-lambda-python-3-10/ Finally!
- Amazon EFS now supports up to 10 GiB/s of throughput
- AWS Skillbuilder down for maintenance — 4/22/2023 7:00PM CST -----> There is now a different maintenance page showing up at the Skill Builder URL! It seems like someone is working on something or atleast they are letting us know that they are aware and here is how you can get to other areas that are still …
- Five Rookie Mistakes with Kubernetes on AWS
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🧁 IAM permission changes
- notifications: 21 new actions, 4 new resources, 8 new conditions — 21 new actions: AssociateChannel (Grants permission to associate a new Channel with a particular NotificationConfiguration), CreateEventRule (Grants permission to create a new EventRule, associating it with a NotificationConfiguration), CreateNotificationConfiguration (Grants permission to create a NotificationConfiguration), DeleteEventRule (Grants permission to delete an EventRule), DeleteNotificationConfiguration (Grants permission to delete a NotificationConfiguration), DeregisterNotificationHub …
- notifications-contacts: 9 new actions, 1 new resource, 4 new conditions — 9 new actions: ActivateEmailContact (Grants permission to activate the email contact associated with the given ARN if the provided code is valid), CreateEmailContact (Grants permission to create an email contact), DeleteEmailContact (Grants permission to delete an email contact associated with the given ARN), GetEmailContact (Grants permission to get an email …
- ram: 9 new actions, 1 new condition | 7 updated actions, 1 updated resource — 9 new actions: CreatePermission (Grants permission to create a Permission that can be associated to a Resource Share), CreatePermissionVersion (Grants permission to create a new version of a Permission that can be associated to a Resource Share), DeletePermission (Grants permission to delete a specified Permission), DeletePermissionVersion (Grants permission to delete …
🍪 API changes
- Amazon Chime - 1 updated methods — Adds support for Hindi and Thai languages and additional Amazon Transcribe parameters to the StartMeetingTranscription API.
- Amazon Chime SDK Media Pipelines - 3 updated methods — Adds support for Hindi and Thai languages and additional Amazon Transcribe parameters to the StartMeetingTranscription API.
- Amazon Chime SDK Meetings - 1 updated methods — Adds support for Hindi and Thai languages and additional Amazon Transcribe parameters to the StartMeetingTranscription API.
