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Vlad Ionescu (he/him)
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sugarbaby cosplaying as a tech consultant β€’ mean eastern european with unrealistically high expectations and unreasonable quality standards πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆhe/himπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ
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Are the images used that different from the official Bottlerocket ECS AMIs at docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/la... ?

They would have to automate the AMI rollout which, assuming folks aren't using pet EC2s, is not *that* complex. It's not easy but it's not "13% of EC2 spend" levels of complex either
Wooo welcome to Bucharest πŸŽ‰πŸ‘‹πŸŽ‰
(I felt that I had to reply to this since I was a big fan of AVP's potential aaaaaand then I totally dissapeared from social media)
AVP isn't a product that AWS takes seriously so I'd suggest also taking a look at Oso πŸ˜…
Woooo πŸŽ‰πŸ€—πŸŽ‰
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"To further cement the nexus between Microsoft and Europe, going forward our European datacenter operations and their boards will be overseen by a European board of directors that consists exclusively of European nationals and operates under European law."

blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
Microsoft announces new European digital commitments - Microsoft On the Issues
As a multinational company, Microsoft believes in trans-Atlantic ties that promote mutual economic growth and prosperity.
blogs.microsoft.com
*hugs*

This was also (one of the reasons) I was driven away from social media / dramatically reduced my public web presence too. The tech community is wildly toxic but the open-source fanatics are... a particular level of abhorrent
Lol, I would argue that before moats they need an actual product first (you know, something that's not a short-lived feature arbitrage)
Hey @rmondello.com, if I remember correctly you were collecting feedback for Passwords. Is that still a thing?

If yes, I have 1.5 feature requests targeting power-users.
If no, no worries! Passwords is still a heck of a lot more awesome than I expected and I will still fully migrate to it ❣️
It was all custom β€” some using GitHub Actions, some using custom tools.
Still, this is not trivial to implement and, worse, this requires a serious company and serious developers (not only software engineers but product, testing, sales, support, etc).

That's surprisingly rare so... yeah, it'll remain a super-high-performing thing that few people talk about :(
A few teams measured this and the metrics after 6 months were *mindblowingly* better!

One exception: on-boarding slowed a bit :lolsob: It was so hard getting new devs in and having them get used to "no, seriously, if checks are green we ship whatever to prod and it's fine! We have intense checks!"
My answer: not enough tooling.

I worked with a bunch of teams that did post-PR code reviews (if the code is under a feature flag => PR is automatically approved, merged, and deployed to prod) but the setup required was non-trivial 😞

Everybody (including compliance) was super-happy with it tho!
They fixed it, with impressive speed: the docs are now a lot clearer and even the changelog has been updated with additional details ❣️

AWS received feedback and they took super-prompt action to address it β€” awesome job AWS!
I was annoyed I was missing it but now I am properly devastated I won't be there 😭
They have everything: from high-scale stuff (how delivery works at Tazz) to fast prototyping (prototype to prod in ~6 months with both tech and non-tech drama) to executive strategy, and so much more.

There's even a preview for re:Invent 2024!
Holy heck does the the agenda for AWS Community Day Romania look awesome 🀯

I mean I was expecting it to be *good* but I wan't expecting it to be *this good*. It's amazing!

aws-community.ro#agenda
AWS Community Day Romania
aws-community.ro
Fix is coming, as per the attached conversation with an AWS WAF PM.
AWS WAF Bot Control moving bots from "un-verified" to "verified" means that bots that were previously blocked by default will now just get... counted.

Totally unexpected and not at all clear, right?
Don't you think this deserved a warning in the docs/announcement?

14/14
Folks can of course change the default actions but we all know the power of defaults.

See Internet Explorer, Apple, Google, Chrome, and all the new cases on this topic 🫠

13/14
By default, un-verified bots are a BLOCK.

If AWS WAF Bot Control doesn't know how to check the bot is indeed who it's saying it is, that means that it could be an attacker pretending to be a bot, so it is blocked by default.

12/14
By default, verified bots are a COUNT.

AWS WAF Bot Control is able to guarantee this is indeed the bot it's saying it is, so the request is neither blocked nor allowed.

11/14