A lot of things happened in October, and we talked about them all in early November. In this episode Arjen, Guy, and JM discuss a whole bunch of cool things that were released and may be a bit harsh on everything Microsoft.
This week we start with the great news around EC2 tags and then dive back to an announcement from Cloudflare and how that impacted AWS pricing.
After a very long delay, our September episode finally drops. Recorded in early October Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss how September finally has a fair number of interesting announcements again and of course point out everything that wasn’t great as well.
Yes, this is sort of a post about what I’m planning to do in 2022 and what I did in the past year, but slightly different from previous posts like this that I’ve done in the past.
In an interesting discussion at work today, someone mentioned a tool that would allow you to only log in once for AWS accounts in an AWS Organization. Which surprised me, as that is built into the way the CLI works with AWS SSO. It turns out that many people were unaware of this. As I tend to complain about SSO, I figured I might as well point out one of the parts I really enjoy about it.
When it comes to computers in any form there is one task that it’s hard to find anyone who enjoys it, and that is patching. While updating a system in order to get new capabilities can be fun because of what it will enable you to do, patching means spending time to maintain the status quo. Which is both boring and frustrating. Luckily cloud infrastructure allows us to more easily automate this, so let’s have a look at how that works when running on AWS.
Over on the CMD blog, I wrote about how to make it easy to patch your EC2 instances in an automated manner. If you’re interested, you should read it.
CMD Solutions is the AWS focused brand within Mantel Group, which DigIO (my employer) is also a part of. Because of my status as AWS APN Ambassador, I represent CMD as well. Which also means that for some of my blogposts1, those focused on some small part of AWS for example, CMD is the better outlet. This is a good example of that.
At least those that I write as a representive of my company. Obviously, the best place for anything I write is right here ;). ↩︎
ECS Exec is a new feature for ECS that I think sounds really interesting, so I want to talk about it for a bit. And as it’s basically Session Manager for ECS, I’ll also give a quick intro to Session Manager.
Organizations allows you to organise your accounts and SSO does this for your users. Both are useful, so let’s have a look at them.
In this very first episode of Arjen Without Sleep, I give a short overview of what a VPC is and how it works.
I wrote about version 2 of the Go SDK for AWS over 3 years ago. At the time it was just available in beta/preview mode and I expected it to become GA a bit quicker than it did. But now it's finally here!
Last week I wrote about AWS SSO's CloudFormation and how (with some assistance) that can be used to manage your permission sets and assignments of those permission sets. Today I want to take a bit more positive look at the actual underlying APIs.
A couple of weeks ago, the AWS SSO team finally released functionality I've been anxiously waiting for: a (limited) API and CloudFormation support! So now it's time to break that down and complain about the CloudFormation implementation.
There were a couple of recent AWS updates that can have a positive impact on your AWS usage: Lambda is now in the Savings Plan, and the new CalledVia IAM property allows you to limit calls to be through an AWS service.
