New – Using Amazon GuardDuty to Protect Your S3 Buckets

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedNew – Using Amazon GuardDuty to Protect Your S3 Buckets As we anticipated in this post, the anomaly and threat detection for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) activities that was previously available in Amazon Macie has now been enhanced and reduced in cost by over 80% as part of Amazon GuardDuty. This expands GuardDuty threat…

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 31st, 2020

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedStuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 31st, 2020 Hey, it’s HighScalability time!   Serverless is really complex. Or is it? @paulbiggar sparked a thoughtful Twitter thread. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff won’t happen.  Usually I pitch my book Explain the Cloud Like I’m 10 here, but…

AWS achieves FedRAMP JAB High and Moderate provisional authorization across nine additional services in AWS US Regions

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS achieves FedRAMP JAB High and Moderate provisional authorization across nine additional services in AWS US Regions We are pleased to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has achieved FedRAMP JAB authorization on an additional nine AWS services. These services provide capabilities that enable your organization to: Assemble and deploy serverless architectures…

Deleting a Stuck CloudFormation Stack

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedDeleting a Stuck CloudFormation Stack One of the things I have come across many times over the years is attempting to delete an AWS CloudFormation Stack and getting an error like this: Role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/CloudFormationTrustRole-2CDE9F7RUUTH is invalid or cannot be assumed In this case, an IAM Role used by the stack either got…

What’s New with the APN Customer Engagements (ACE) Program?

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedWhat’s New with the APN Customer Engagements (ACE) Program? By Aaron Barton, Head of APN Customer Engagements We announced the APN Customer Engagements (ACE) program in 2018 to help AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners support customers and drive successful engagements on AWS. Through the ACE program, qualifying APN Partners are eligible to receive…