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Disclaimer: I’m not a REGEX expert :smile: Lately, I was working for one of my customers on a custom configuration of AWS Config recorder. My customer wanted to record all resources using AWS Config, except for a few of them: 'AWS::EC2::Subnet' 'AWS::EC2::VPC' 'AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup' Unfortunately, the AWS API and Console do not allow you to do this; you have to manually cherry-pick which resource you want to record. The trade-off of this method is that if a new AWS Config resource type is released, it won’t be recorded until you manually select it in your AWS Config recorder settings. ...

TL;DR: I search “@awscloud” in their Twitter Bio and add their profiles to a public Twitter list. One opportunity to get fresh news from the AWS ecosystem is to follow relevant current or former Amazon (Web Services) employees called Amazonians on Twitter, but it can be difficult to stalk their profiles across the myriad of user profiles talking about #AWS subjects… Lately, I was working on a quick Python Proof of Concept (another excuse to ramp up my Python 🐍 skills) to query the Twitter API to find profiles with a specific Twitter description/bio, and I asked myself if I could use this to find more and more AWS employees :roll_eyes: ...