Amazon Calls Down Regulatory Lightning

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 26, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links:The FTC comment period about the business of cloud computing endedAmazon warehouse practices are now the focus of a senate probeThe FTC is suing Amazon for its Prime enrollment dark patternsAmazon’s iRobot acquisition is now the subject of an EU investigationThe launch of Amazon Clinic is being delayed after the senate asked some hard questionsAnnouncing Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances AWS Lambda supports starting from timestamp for Kafka event sourcesAWS Step Functions launches Versions and Aliases AWS Transfer Family announces structured JSON log format5 Stages to Building a Successful Partner Practice with AWSSay Hello to 176 AWS Competency, Service Delivery, Service Ready, and MSP Partners Added or Renewed in MayHow GoDaddy Implemented a Multi-Region Event-Driven Platform at ScaleNew Amazon EC2 C7gn Instances: Graviton3E Processors and Up To 200 Gbps Network BandwidthFor actual technical depth, my thanks to David Cuthbert in the Last Week in AWS Slack Community for surfacing this AnandTech article.Stream VPC Flow Logs to Datadog via Amazon Kinesis Data FirehoseCreating real-time flood alerts with the cloudUse AWS Private Certificate Authority to issue device attestation certificates for MatterShould I use the hosted UI or create a custom UI in Amazon Cognito? - Trick question, you should use recurring Last Week in AWS sponsor FusionAuth instead. Coming soon: updates to AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner examHow I achieved all six specialty AWS Certifications on first attemptHow to win a $5 Amazon Gift Card, just by signing up for the Amazon News newsletter