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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 03/03/2025

For the life of me, I cannot figure out what “pin to show in Airbnb” means in the iOS messages app. Tapping the link loads the listing in the app. Long-pressing the message yields nothing relevant and tapping the CTA itself does nothing.

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Nick Frichette @frichetten.com · 05/02/2025

The CFP for the best cloud security conference on earth is now open! If you'd like your research to be presented alongside the cutting edge of the industry, this is your opportunity! fwdcloudsec.org/conference/n...

fwdcloudsec.org

CFP | NA 2025 | fwd:cloudsec

fwd:cloudsec is a non-profit conference on cloud security. At this conference you can expect discussions about all the major cloud platforms, both attack and defense research, limitations of security...

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 04/01/2025

For some incomprehensible reason Instagram has added pregnant capybaras to my search screen. That’s clearly not the kind of content I came to instagram for 😂

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 16/12/2024

How long should I wait before following up on some missing international mail? My passport was apparently in Dublin over two weeks ago. No updates on the Irish side and not trackable by Aus Post.

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 13/12/2024

Back in 2022 I started a project I called vpcshark. Since then, AWS has launched three generations of EC2 instances without traffic mirroring support. So I figured I might as well open source it, might be useful to someone. github.com/aidansteele/...

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GitHub - aidansteele/vpcshark: An open source Wireshark extcap to make ad hoc mirroring of AWS EC2 traffic easier

An open source Wireshark extcap to make ad hoc mirroring of AWS EC2 traffic easier - aidansteele/vpcshark

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 01/12/2024

Sitting at the airport, on my way to re:invent for the first time in 5 years. If all goes smoothly I should be checking into my hotel in about 24 hours. See y’all soon.

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 28/11/2024

It seems the AWS Lambda console and the Kinesis docs disagree on the set of required permissions for a x-acct enhanced-fanout subscriber. This[1] doc says one thing, this[2] says another and the console says a third. [1]: docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/late... [2]: docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/late...

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 27/11/2024

I finally got around to automatically publishing new versions of my "unofficial AWS CodeBuild base image" project (and migrating to public ECR instead of Docker Hub). If you want custom images without the perf penalty, this is probably up your alley. gallery.ecr.aws/aidansteele/...

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ECR Public Gallery

Amazon ECR Public Gallery is a website that allows anyone to browse and search for public container images, view developer-provided details, and see pull commands

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 26/11/2024

Today I learned that AWS Lambda will only perform automatic de-aggregation of KPL-formatted records when reading from an "enhanced fanout" Kinesis consumer. Apparently the Kinesis docs are unaware of this: they claim that functions need to de-aggregate KPL records themselves.

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 24/11/2024

I’m home, sans luggage that missed my connecting flight. Qantas says it should arrive tomorrow. I’m not fussed as long as it arrives within the 166 hours until I depart for re:invent 🫠

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 22/11/2024

Hypothetically, would anyone be interested in: 1. A Kinesis stream representing the Bluesky firehose 2. A set of Iceberg tables in S3 representing the serialised events from that firehose 3. An EventBridge bus so you can subscribe to a subset with whatever pattern you want? 4. Something else?

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 20/11/2024

I’m in SF this week and Waymo is seriously impressive. There’s a billionaire/car company out there claiming that autonomous vehicles are right around the corner, but it feels like they’ve already arrived - in this city, at least.

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 03/11/2024

I really like the call recording and transcription functionality added to iOS. I often forget verbal conversations, so it’s incredibly handy. I had a call with my sister and it nailed the (Aussie English) transcript. Tapping on a word to jump to that part of the recording is a nice touch.

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Nick Frichette @frichetten.com · 20/11/2023

New on Hacking the Cloud: The brilliant @awsteele.com shared a technique to retrieve an IAM principal's ARN from their unique identifier. hackingthe.cloud/aws/enumerat...

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Enumerate a Principal ARN from an AWS Unique Identifier - Hacking The Cloud

How to convert an unique identifier to a principal ARN.

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Scott Piper @scottpiper.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

"AWS role session tags for GitHub Actions" by @awsteele.com awsteele.com/blog/2023/10...

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 24/09/2023

My sister has always been the more talented one in the family. She’s just proved it again with the launch of her new EP. Here it is on all the music streaming sites. songwhip.com/fjsteele/ter...

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 20/07/2023

Missy intervening at about 10AM, saying “that’s enough work for one day”

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 14/07/2023

They don’t make it easy to get out of bed

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 04/07/2023

Ah, but what kind of database?

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 29/06/2023

Feature request: support for cross-account targets in AWS EventBridge Pipes 🥺 plz @nikpin.ski

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/06/2023

Software is the only industry where the job interviews are 10x harder than the job.

Comic

Scene 1: Interviewer asks interviewee to show a depth first algorithm on the whiteboard.

Scene 2: Manager tells the employee to make the button bigger.

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 27/06/2023

Does anyone else struggle more posting on this place than the other place? Feels like there’s a higher threshold for minimum viable post 😅

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Scott Piper @scottpiper.bsky.social · 22/06/2023

Interesting stats from USAA in their re:Inforce talk on AWS data perimeters: 85% of cross-org calls are to S3, and 70% of those S3 calls are to buckets owned by AWS.

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 06/06/2023

#1 use for the ultra-wide lens: taking photos of my dogs on my lap. Here are they with their new haircut.

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 04/06/2023

I’ve had my Volvo XC40 twin motor for a week and can confirm: it’s great. I drove my VW Golf GTI yesterday and it already feels old-fashioned

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 17/05/2023

I think this is a solid contender for the best thing anyone has ever said about me 😍

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 13/05/2023

I told @collett.io that everyone on Bluesky starts posting lewds on main at about this time of day. Counting on the community to not make me a liar

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 04/05/2023

@girlwiththemostcake.com excellent investment in the new domain 😂

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 03/05/2023

This is Archie’s favourite step

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 01/05/2023

This is the dogs’ favourite spot to catch the morning sun. Archie only likes the dog bed, Missy only likes the chair. But they clearly both love jumping on the window when birds fly past

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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 26/04/2023

Lunch breaks are different when working from home. My colleagues have much less to say about their plans for the long weekend. (Alt text input seems broken on iOS: the keyboard completely obscures the input field and I can’t see what I’m typing)

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