Season 3 Episode 27 - ECS Features, AWS Open Sourcing, and AI IAC

In Season 3, Episode 27 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Jenn Bergstrom. They discuss Amazon ECS, AWS Secrets Manager, Amazon CodeWhisperer, Security Hub and Jon was worried that the new Amazon Bedrock AI agent would replace him as Karl's Lead Cloud Engineer...

 

Articles Discussed:

03:54 - Amazon ECS now enforces software version consistency for containerized applications 

- Prevents issues when deploying containers using mutable tags like 'latest'

- Happens automatically, users don't need to make any changes

 

10:02 - Amazon ECS provides enhanced stop task error messages for easier troubleshooting 

 - Helps debug issues when deploying containers to ECS

- Available automatically in all regions, no user changes needed

 

12:40 - Open source release of Secrets Manager agent for AWS Secrets Manager 

- Allows retrieving secrets without writing custom integration code

- Exciting for serverless/container workloads like Lambda

 

18:35 - Using AI agents in Amazon CodeWhisperer to generate IaC from architecture diagrams 

- Upload a diagram, chat with the AI, get Terraform or CloudFormation code

- Useful but not a complete replacement for experienced engineers yet

 

29:30 - Top 4 ways to improve your Security Hub score 

- Mostly common sense security tips

- Highlights the need for better security practices

 

Guest was Jenn Bergstrom

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-bergstrom/