This "AI will never replace _my_ job" attitude by security folks (and I say this as a security engineer myself) is insufferable. Yeah, there are likely lots of vulnerabilities getting vibe coded into apps right now. But AI is improving rapidly, and in a few years you'll likely look back wondering what happened to the job market. Adapt or don't, I suppose.
It’s interesting that multi-region is often touted as a mechanism for resilience and availability, but for the most part, large cloud providers seem hopelessly intertwined across regions during outages like these.
Mind the unknown unknowns there. You are not aware of all the "outages like these" that could have occurred but did not thanks to regional/zonal sharding.
I wish X would allow you to mute lists of people. I keep a list for insufferable VCs, and it would be nice to mute the whole list at once.
Maybe a feature request for your extension: take a list and mute everyone on it, and periodically check for new additions and mute those too. That way I can have the list be the source of truth, rather than commenting on every person I mute individually.
Import/export mute lists would be an amazing feature but why would x allow that? Shareable mute lists would turn the place into mastodon or something non-monitizeable due to low enragement.
I haven’t been a fan of the UI for a while, although admittedly it’s a tough job - there’s a lot to cram in there! I started building a simpler alternative, where everything is just a simple, sortable, exportable table (details in profile). It’s been fun to build, but the sheer number of services has been a slog.
It's essentially a simpler, read-only, AWS dashboard where everything is a filterable, searchable, exportable-to-CSV table, with some extra features like multi-region mode, saved notes, and a debugger for access denied errors.
It uses the AWS SDK for JavaScript, so everything is run client-side from your browser. I'm not 100% sure what direction I'm taking it yet, but it's been fun to hack on!
Thankfully programmatic. It’s a common UI table widget, essentially, and I’ve written some custom code to handle multi-region support, updating the AWS credential handler, pagination, and response processing. From there, it’s a matter of plugging in some common options for each AWS service: the service name, SDK method to call, pagination property (annoyingly, AWS API has numerous ways of paginating responses), etc. Takes about five minutes to add a new service.
I'm using ag-grid for my project too. I did a bunch of work to make configuring it more declarative... so you can have pinned rows that read from a different data source for summary stats, so you can specify custom renderers for each column. how have you found ag-grid to use?
Oh, that's neat! I've found it to be really flexible, although some of the really nice features are (understandably) locked behind the expensive "Pro" version (like right-click context menus, etc.). Will check out your examples!
Expect to see more of this, especially when the audience is local/US. IIRC, some newspapers are already doing region blocks. Why should website owners targeting US visitors spend _any_ amount of money making their content comply with asinine regulations (like cookie banners)?
Based on "GetMetricData", you're not paying for services, but rather something with access to your account is making API requests to CloudWatch. Do you have any third-party monitoring tools (Splunk, Datadog, etc.) in use? Can you check your IAM portal to see if you have any users/roles with recent access?
