AWS Budgets

 

This week, AWS Budgets has the ability to create auto-adjusting budgets. An auto-adjusting budget dynamically sets your budget amount based on historical cost or usage over a time range that you specify.

This reduces the guesswork in setting a budget limit and keeps you updated as your spend patterns change. Auto-adjusting budgets are generally available in all public AWS Regions.

On catching the spikes in cloud spend, auto-adjusting budgets can be used to receive alerts when your cost or usage patterns change as a complement to your existing budgets.
At the beginning of each new period, AWS Budgets calculates your auto-adjusted budget amount using historical billing data within the specified time range.
For example, you can create an auto-adjusting cost budget with a baseline time range of the last six months.

In this scenario, whilst spending each budget period in the last six months was $100, auto-adjusted budget amount will be $100.

Certified Azure Engineer

As committed in Multi Cloud blog, now I'm Microsoft Certified Azure engineer.

This exam is an opportunity to prove knowledge of cloud concepts, Azure services, Azure workloads, security and privacy in Azure, as well as Azure pricing and support. It makes to be familiar with the general technology concepts, including concepts of networking, storage, compute, application support, and application development.

With the earlier couple of AWS certifications & work experiences, it is making a clear road map to contribute in my home ground Microsoft technology.

Side note: 2022 industry certification goal is fulfilled earlier, with consistent 15 years mark since 2008. 

Stay tuned for continuous learning & sharing !

AWS Private 5G

 

AWS Private 5G is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale your own private cellular network, with all required hardware and software provided by AWS.

With AWS Private 5G, you can build private cellular networks to take advantage of the technological benefits of 5G while maintaining the security and granular application and device controls of a private network.

Top-3 Use Cases are

1. Run a smart manufacturing facility
2. Enable business-critical applications
3. Deliver reliable campus connectivity

Preview is available at https://pages.awscloud.com/Private5GPreview.html

UPnP

 Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) service becomes dangerous if it establishes connections with devices that are infected with malware. Such connections make DDoS attacks possible. UPnP exploitation can result in more than just the connection of an infected device

A malicious campaign known as 'Eternal Silence' is abusing UPnP turns your router into a proxy server used to launch malicious attacks while hiding the location of the threat actors.

The new rulesets defined by the hackers contain the phrase 'galleta silenciosa', which is Spanish for 'silent cookie'.

{"NewProtocol": "TCP", "NewInternalPort": "445", "NewInternalClient": "192.168.10.212",
"NewPortMappingDescription": "galleta silenciosa", "NewExternalPort": "47669"}

The injections attempt to expose TCP ports 139 and 445 on devices connected to the targeted router, roughly 1,700,000 machines running SMB services.

As the best practice, the latest firmware update should be a priority as the device vendor may have addressed any UPnP implementation flaws via a security update.