Hey everyone, I hope you got some off time to enjoy these last couple of weeks of summer
It’s also that time of the year when companies start preparing their hiring strategies for the upcoming fiscal year, so if you’re looking for a career change, it’s time to take action
Let’s dive into the freshest cloud news from the past week
Quick Bites: Rapid Updates
- Amazon EC2 M6a instances, powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors, are offering increased performance capabilities
- A post on The New Stack claims teams move away from AWS Lambda for various established open-source alternatives that offer similar capabilities. Read more about it here
- Understand potential risks when going serverless on AWS Lambda in this informative post
- Amazon DynamoDB: after a series of summer updates, is waiting for cloud developers to explore its new features
- AWS Amplify Hosting announces support for monorepo frameworks
Article of the week
If you use the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) then make sure you do not miss this blog post. In How to add notifications and manual approval to an AWS CDK Pipeline, the authors provided a guided walkthrough on how to set up notifications and add a manual approval stage to your AWS CDK Pipeline. [hands on]
Latest Open Source Projects
simple-code-scanning-pipeline
This project creates a pipeline that AWS users can use to automatically scan a wide variety of code for security and syntax issues. It is a ready-to-use development environment integrated with a CI pipeline with security and DevOps best practices. It works by configuring an AWS CodeCommit Git repository (you can specify an existing one if you want), and a multi-stage pipeline that integrates a number of open source tools such as:
- Bandit for finding common security issues in Python code
- Flake8 for ensuring well-formatted Python code
- cfn_nag for CloudFormation template linting and security checks
- Checkov for Terraform linting
- Gitleaks for secret detection
- Shellcheck for Shell script linting
- SqlFluff for SQL linting
- Unit testing of RDK Custom Config rules
- and more…
Check out the repo for the full list of tools used
aws-orga-deployer
aws-orga-deployer makes it easier to deploy and manage infrastructure-as-code at the scale of an AWS Organizations. It enables to deploy Terraform or CloudFormation templates and to execute Python scripts in multiple AWS accounts and multiple regions.
New Resources on The ⚔️ Guild
Smart Chatbot 100% Serverless – This new reference architecture guides you towards creating a sophisticated conversational chatbot to help your customers get answers to their queries 24/7
Tribe of Hackers – This new book summary that paints a vivid picture of the world of cybersecurity through the stories of veterans in the field.
That’s a wrap for this edition of Last Week in the ⛅️ Cloud!
Stay curious, stay cloud-inspired.
I’ll be back next week with more exciting news from the ever-evolving cloud universe.
iLyas
