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Mar 10 9 tweets 10 min read
before I dive in here, did you know that @awscloud Audit Manager exists?

probably not. tl:dr > it helps map your usage to various regulations & standards to give you a better idea of your risk & compliance posture

some thoughts & a blog post analysis 👇

🧵 #cloud #security
@awscloud this 👇 is the workflow for @awscloud Audit Manager. it's not bad for the basics

🧵 #cloud #security The AWS Audit Manager workflow: - review, customize, or crea
@awscloud what started me down this path was this post on the @awssecurityinfo blog, "Streamlining evidence collection with AWS Audit Manager"

aws.amazon.com/blogs/security…

anything that helps smooth out the evidence gathering process is usually a big win, let's dig in

🧵 #cloud #security
@awscloud @AWSSecurityInfo right out of the gate, AWS Audit Manager pulls from @awscloud Security Hub, AWS Config, and AWS CloudTrail. so those data sources are already covered

this post shows how an approach to streamlining your custom metrics/data points

🧵 #cloud #security
@awscloud @AWSSecurityInfo the idea is pretty simple

you setup an HTTPS endpoint via @awscloud API Gateway. that endpoint triggers a Lambda which then stores the evidence in S3 while also triggering a Step Function to process the evidence

it's simple, #serverless, and low cost

🧵 #cloud #security
@awscloud @AWSSecurityInfo the trick now is using this evidence storage method

@awscloud Audit Manager associated evidence to a Control within an Assessments

you need to know where this evidence belongs, in order to use this solution

🧵 #cloud #security
@awscloud @AWSSecurityInfo it's not too complicated to figure this out but it's going to be the top hurdle in getting buy-in from other teams

streamlining the evidence/control/assessment alignment process would be a huge win & make this solution a lot more useful

/🧵 #cloud #security
@awscloud @AWSSecurityInfo 🤣 turns out @QuinnyPig also provides his 2 cents on this post in the @LastWeekinAWS newsletter this morning

you've subscribed to his newsletter, right?

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Mar 11
a nice move by @googlecloud recently. they've cleaned up the already great developer experience

the moves are summed up in this post cloud.google.com/blog/products/…

some thoughts 👇

🧵 #cloud #devops
@googlecloud these changes are non-breaking. that SHOULD be the standard when dealing with APIs and SDKs but, sadly, it isn't everywhere

nice to see @googlecloud setting an example here

🧵 #cloud #devops
@googlecloud all of the individual CLIs are now the "Google Cloud CLI"

this is an umbrella project that includes:

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on the @awscloud Cloud Operations & Migrations blog, @MahanthJayadeva has a great post up about Custom Lenses in teh AWS Well-Architected Framework

read that at aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/custo…

some thoughts 👇

🧵 #cloud #devops
@awscloud @MahanthJayadeva Custom Lenses add your own questions to the AWS Well-Architected Tool

remember, the Tool is basically a managed, versioned Q&A system to help your teams work through various architectural chocies

a Custom Lens means your questions appear alongside AWS'

🧵 #cloud #devops
@awscloud @MahanthJayadeva the Custom Lens go a bit further than just questions. you can actually create your own PILLARS as well

there are 6 pillars from @awscloud:
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🧵 #cloud #devops
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the biggest disappointment I have with @awscloud IAM is that people don't use it like a dynamic system

permissions are still granted on/off, very few teams add a time component in there but they are starting to with roles

...I think there's more there

🧵☁️ #cloud #security
of course, that tweet probably gave @ben11kehoe a heart attack (sorry Ben!)

...on that note, Ben just published ANOTHER fantastic post on @awscloud IAM, he's on a roll lately

🧵☁️ #cloud #security
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the title says it all, but in the post he dives into the why and what might be better ways for you

ben11kehoe.medium.com/never-put-aws-…

🧵☁️ #cloud #security
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containers on @awscloud: a rant 🧵

problem: I want to run a single container every so often

☁️ #cloud #devops
I start with a search. the first result is straight forward and promising

I click on "Containers on AWS"

☁️🧵 #cloud #devops
I land here. it's not bad though a bit of a pitch, "AWS is the #1 place for you to run containers and 80% of all containers in the cloud run on @awscloud" << but will MINE?!?

☁️🧵 #cloud #devops
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next up is IAM with Karen Haberkorn

@awscloud #reinforce
…and the challenge of virtual events rears it ugly head. other more pressing matters popped up and I’ve missed what seems like a great talk and discussion on IAM 😔

@awscloud #reinforce
…but the upside of the virtual event is that I should be able to watch this on replay soon enough!

@awscloud #reinforce
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Eric Brandwine up now at @awscloud #reinforce

he’s talking about building a culture of #security
scale quickly became a problem in building the #security organization at AWS

@awscloud #reinforce
Eric realized they couldn’t scale up the team to the size of AWS, it just wasn’t possible

they had to figure out a way to help the organization build the #security culture itself

@awscloud #reinforce
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