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📜 History In late 2020, I was floored by the number of announcements, changes, re:Invent releases, and blog posts that AWS announces every week. Then, I decided to automate part of my weekly routine to stay up to date. The idea was to get a digest email summary of what was going on. It was very helpful for my job as an Indie AWS Security Consultant. A few weeks later, I decided to open my weekly digest to external subscribers as I believe it could interest folks in the same field. Here we are with the ASD Newsletter in January 2021. ...

As we welcome 2024, I’m excited to share a special post for the AWS Security Digest Newsletter. It’s been a remarkable year, and your engagement has made it even more so. 🔗 I’ve compiled the top 5 most-clicked links from our 2023 editions. These links represent the most intriguing, informative, and impactful topics in AWS Security landscape. 1️⃣ Enabling Just-In-Time (JIT) Access for AWS S3 Buckets 2️⃣ Actionable AWS Security Best Practices [Cheat Sheet] 3️⃣ AWS Security Foundations For Dummies 4️⃣ Bare minimum AWS Security Alerting and Configuration 5️⃣ AWS ImdsPacketAnalyzer 👨‍🍳 Why a Chef? You might wonder about the image. In our newsletter, we ‘cook’ complex AWS concepts into digestible insights, much like a chef preparing a gourmet meal. This theme has been a fun and integral part of our journey. ...

Since my last post, on how to deal with information Overload and reading pipeline, I’ve created a free digest newsletter about AWS Security. The goal of this curated AWS Security Digest is to condensate what was happening from last week on the most relevant sources: 🔦 A Highlight of the week 👮 Change since last week on AWS Managed IAM Policies 💌 Curated Cloud Security Newsletters 👀 AWS API changes 🔒 IAM Permissions changes 🆙 Most upvoted posts on r/AWS 🔗 Top shared links on Twitter (by cloudsec folks) 🐦 Most engaged Tweets from the community This is an ongoing side project, so more content will be added over time. ...