Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage on Tuesday (Dec 7) as technical errors in its US-EAST-1 region persisted. The global console landing page, also located in US-EAST-1, was affected, as were EC2, DynamoDB and Amazon Connect. By 1404 Pacific Time (PT), Amazon confirmed it had ‘executed a mitigation… showing significant recovery’, while the network… Continue reading →

Simply want all the re:Invent releases without fanfare? Here you go: AWSConOnePager Here are some of the more esoteric happenings from the AWS jamboree this week: AWS Amplify Studio has been launched, providing a new environment to allow developers to create web app UIs with minimal coding.   It encourages users to fully customize their applications’ design and behaviour using… Continue reading →

Malicious actors had recently compromised 50 Google Cloud Platform instances, of which the majority were used for cryptocurrency mining. In more than half (58%) of situations analysed, the cryptomining software was downloaded to the user’s system within 22 seconds of being compromised. As a result, Google Cloud researchers suggest these were – understandably – scripted… Continue reading →

A new study from Unit 42 has made alarming findings regarding insecurely exposed services in public clouds. The Unit 42 researchers used a honeypot infrastructure of 320 nodes deployed globally, deploying multiple instances of remote desktop protocol (RDP), secure shell protocol (SSH), server message block (SMB), and Postgres database in the honeypot infrastructure. The findings… Continue reading →

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the public preview of Amazon Linux 2022 (AL2022), based on Red Hat’s community Linux, Fedora. With re:Invent just around the corner, expect plenty of AWS news; good, bad or indifferent. This, however, has been quietly noted in a blog post without much fanfare. Which is a shame, because this… Continue reading →

Welcome to an abridged issue 17 of CloudProfs, which went out to subscribers on November 20. Want to read this week’s What’s Been Said and Done in Cloud This Week? Catch it here. LINKERD: OVERVIEW, TUTORIAL AND APPROACHES Linkerd, a service mesh for Kubernetes, was first noted in CloudProfs #4 back in August, as the… Continue reading →

Amazon Web Services has announced new initiatives aimed at ‘empowering learners’, from new courses to an in-person skills center. AWS Skills Center is billed as Amazon’s ‘first dedicated, in-person cloud learning space’. The first location is Seattle, with more planned in the US and globally. The center will include free in-person classes, as well as… Continue reading →

Wiz has published a full explainer of the ‘worst you can imagine’ vulnerability it found with Azure Cosmos DB this week (November 10) – and it does not make for pretty reading. (The ‘ChaosDB’ was reported at the time in CloudProfs issue 5). Wiz discloses a six step process which enabled the researchers to ‘gain… Continue reading →

Welcome to issue 15 of CloudProfs, sent to subscribers on November 5. If you want to subscribe, you can be visiting here. WHAT’S BEEN SAID AND DONE IN CLOUD THIS WEEK Microsoft has launched Azure Container Apps, a new fully managed serverless container service. The service enables users to work without seeing or managing any… Continue reading →

Welcome! This is the fourteenth edition of CloudProfs, sent to subscribers on October 29. If you enjoyed this newsletter, why not sign up to receive it in your inbox every week? Or if you have any feedback, email the editor. NEWS As befitting an Azure special edition, Microsoft’s FY22 Q1 earnings report dropped this week, beating investor… Continue reading →