Instance Metadata Service News Today

This is going to be a highly opinionated blog post. I think AWS is great and use it daily, but their implementation of IAM is unnecessarily complicated.

Linux (Ubuntu) has once again beaten Windows 11 and this time by a reasonably large margin. The comparisons on this occasion were done on AMD's 3D V-cache based Ryzen 7 5800X3D octa-core CPU.

Multiple Python packages caught by Sonatype were seen uploading secrets such as AWS keys and environment variables to a web endpoint.

An examination of the trends and challenges around cloud security over the past year.