You can now sign in with Google to access AWS applications and experiences such as AWS Training and Certification and AWS re:Post. That's one fewer personal credential to remember and manage. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

Mariners! I have lived in Seattle for the end of 23 baseball seasons, and this is their first AL West division win. A true gem pitched by La Piedra, and Cal Raleigh hit homers 59 and 60. Bring on the champagne. #mariners www.mlb.com/news/mariner...

Good news, #AWSIAMIdentityCenter customers! You can now use customer-managed keys to encrypt your identity data at rest. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... #AWS

Friday treat for fans of #AWSIAM : you can now author service control policies with all IAM language constructs, eliminating previous sharp edges such as only being able to use NotAction in Deny statements: aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi...

Cal Raleigh! My favorite part about his historic night is that not only does he now hold the record for most home runs by a switch hitter, but he hit two in the record-breaking game, one from each side of the plate.

Thanks to folks including @frichetten.com for feedback about our Bedrock API key launch. We're listening. Yesterday, we updated Bedrock and IAM docs (see docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/late...) to clarify that these are service-specific credentials and how to prevent their use in your environment. 1/2

Check out these new AWS IAM context keys that make is easier to restrict access to AWS resources to expected networks -- and that use less policy space! aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi...

So many lovely things in this world. Lime Kiln State Park, San Juan Island, Washington

Imagine if all elections were like the primary in WA today. I received my ballot in the mail weeks ago, with a voter’s guide, automatically. I walked it to a drop box on Sunday - no postage needed. I got a text yesterday that my ballot was received, and it will be part of today’s initial results.

“…and the past not uncommonly takes a while to happen, and some long time to figure out.” - Ken Kesey in Sometimes a Great Notion

Four summer squash, spiralized into zoodles, roasted and mixed with a light Parmesan cream sauce, topped with roasted cherry tomatoes with garlic and onion, and garnished with fresh basil - all (except the dairy) from the garden. Yay for July!

Beans! So many beautiful beans!

Thanks for being an MFA fan, @jessicalyons.bsky.social ! www.theregister.com/2025/06/17/a... (This article is more than a week old, which is old by media cycle standards -- but I just read it really nails the value of enforcing MFA for customers. Woot!)

What a series! I am supposed to resent the Thunder for leaving Seattle without an NBA team, but I couldn’t help but cheer for them. Amazing play from the Pacers too. Alas, there is no game 8 so no more diversion from the scary stuff going on out there.

All the news that’s fit to print, unless it takes place Saturday evening and you get the Sunday NY Times delivered in Seattle. The front page delivered this morning features a story about U.S.A.I.D., and includes an article on page 10 about the possibility of bombing Fordo.

We've wrapped up re:Inforce but the fun doesn't stop there -- we now support two more AWS services for resource control policies. Woot! aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... #AWSreinforce

Nice to see Federal Way, WA rename a park on Juneteenth for the Conna family. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... John Conna was enslaved in Texas, fought for the union, held a leadership role in WA’s first legislature, and advocated to bar race-based discrimination in the WA constitution.

Two opposing visions of justice in Philadelphia, two blocks apart from each other. Which nation do we want to be?

This re:Inforce launch includes a valuable new capability in AWS Organizations, multi-party approval. Integrated here with AWS Backup for recovery use cases, the feature requires authorized people to approve a specific action. Very cool! aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... #AWSreinforce

Just launched!! Get the certs out of ACM. $15/san, $149/wildcard. aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aw...

So excited for this launch! AWS IAM Access Analyzer now offers an internal access analyzer, so you can easily identify whom within your organization has access to resources that contain critical data. Check it out: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... #AWSreinforce

As AWS CISO Amy Herzog said in the #reinforce keynote, this is worthy of applause: MFA enforcement for the powerful root credentials for 100% of AWS accounts!

Today: a huge mass of people bending the arc of history toward justice, followed by an album release choral concert. Joan Szymko, composer of a new piece, connected the events with a quote from Bernstein. “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully…” Wow.

I'm looking forward to AWS re:Inforce next week. Let me know if you will be there and want to talk about identity and access!

1/13 Business writing with GenAI. I’m working on two things where several teams shared detailed plans and I need to synthesize them into a higher-level description of what the plans will accomplish. This seems like an exercise that GenAI tools should be good at, so I’ve been experimenting.

For folks in Seattle seeking joy, tonight is the last performance of "Footloose" at Garfield High. We saw it last night and it's a delight. #seattletheatre

This is just to say (to the teenager): I have folded / the clothes / that were in / the dryer / and which / you were probably / saving / for a parent / I forgive you / they were numerous / so wrinkled / and so old

Happy AWS MFA enforcement anniversary! "In May 2024, we began requiring MFA for AWS Organizations management account root users..." MFA prevents nearly all password-related attacks, so be inspired by this to apply it in other places too! aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi...

This intuitive user interface features a hole in the counter below the paper towel dispenser. It is so inviting that some users deposited their paper towels, even though the engineers neglected to implement a storage layer. It’s AWS, so maybe they thought the towels would be whisked away to S3?

If you are a mother to a person, pet, plant, or any combination of those: Happy Mother’s Day!

There is no compression algorithm for experience. During the power outage in Spain and Portugal, the local AWS datacentres kept humming thanks to careful planning and preparation. Remember: Everything fails, all the time, so plan for failure and nothing fails. www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinm...

I've seen a lot of coverage about the overall approval rating coming in at 39% in this poll, but the approval rate from Republicans stands out to me. 72% of Republicans approve of how Trump is handling the economy. It makes me wonder what would have to be true for that number to come down.

My older daughter conveniently scheduled her wisdom teeth extraction the day before #indiebookstoreday so we treated ourselves to a couple of books at Third Place today. The best part was the little girl clutching a book and racing in a loop around some shelves, giggling. New books for everyone!

It's a wrap! With this feature to modify account names, admins in AWS Organizations can now centrally modify ALL member account settings - primary email address, account name, contact info, and alternate contacts - without needing to log in with root credentials. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

Great news - if you aren't calling AWS STS regional endpoints yet, we now serve requests to the global endpoint in the same Region as your workloads (for Regions enabled by default), meaning better resilience and lower latency without you having to make any changes. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

Perhaps for the next 1000 days I should find a more valuable or uplifting daily habit than Wordle... but I also realize that 1000 days seems like a LONG time, but it's only 73% of the remaining length of the Trump administration. Sigh.

Went on a pilgrimage to Bainbridge Island yesterday with the primary goal of having Mora ice cream, only to learn that the last Mora ice cream was scooped in August 2023. Very belated farewell to Mora. You were delicious, and will be missed. www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2...

Embracing the stereotype: The @ridwell.bsky.social van arrived to pick up the recycling while I was mowing our tiny parking strip with our hand mower and the #ioniq5 was charging in the driveway. Need I point out that I live in Seattle?

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

In this respite from tariff news, calling Ioniq 5 owners - at least those who live in rainy places as I do! The GeckoWiper, a removable rear windshield wiper built through a Kickstarter campaign, is a major upgrade. Ships from Zurich so buy while tariffs are "paused!" www.geckowiper.com #ioniq5

also, and I was maybe only semi-awake for this, but at halftime did I hear charles barkley refer to azzi fudd as "aziz"?

Sad realization: the primary reason I still have the Facebook app on my phone is because the parents group there always knows when my daughter's high school is on lockdown or shelter-in-place and why before official communication comes out. Kids deserve to go to school without fear of gun violence.

Is Spotify trying to be reassuring or ironic by following Chappell Roan’s “Casual” adventures knee-deep in the passenger seat with the Beatles wanting to hold my hand?

I recently read "The Unpenetrable Forest" about Thor Hanson's time in Uganda in the 90's. He see many people die of AIDS while he is there, but someone who is ill when he leaves survives, saved by new drugs. Without those drugs, we return to the death sentence of the 80's and early 90's. Horrific.

The Wordlebot is so affectionate!

There was a white Tesla ahead of me at the entrance to my work building's garage this morning. I zoomed into the other entrance lane and made it through first, snagging the last open charging spot. How bad is it that it felt like a moral victory, even though the driver must be one of my coworkers?

It's such a great time for women's basketball. UConn w/ the Big East title win! Sarah Strong is so exciting to watch -- so many steals and offensive rebounds - even off her own shots. www.nytimes.com/athletic/619...

New! You can now customize access tokens for M2M flows with Amazon Cognito. Fine-grained authorization for the win! aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

Seattle Pro Musica is performing the work of trans composer Mari Esbabel Valverde, including an inspiring piece written by trans poet Amir Rabiyah - “Up/Rising Into.” Go today in Lynnwood or stream for free on 3/22 - a hopeful moment. #seattlesings www.seattlepromusica.org/thunder

In a very small sign that the world still produces equitable outcomes sometimes, we played our favorite card game four times during this week’s school vacation, and each family member won once. Onward and upward!