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Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Is ENS the equivalent?

https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/63837.htm?spm=a2c63.l28256.a3.1.4bc51c82bt5NKi

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Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


PierreTheMime posted:

Is there any kind of general consensus on what a decent speed for some S3 operations is? My "transfer SFTP to S3" and "unzipping/untarring files" jobs run at ~60MB/s and 80MB/s respectively and I'm not sure to be satisfied with this or not.

Are you doing the untarring in Lambda or on an EC2 instance?

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Thanks Ants posted:

Thanks. If it needed confirming (having thought about this it was a question with an obvious answer) I've tested this in an Azure VNet with two IPsec tunnels, one to a site addressed as 10.1.0.0/16 and another 10.2.0.0/16 and I could add 10.1.250.0/24 to the second route without issue, and the route was listed in the effective routes for an interface in the VNet.

As a follow-up to this, there's a bit of a caveat. You can't have your VNet gateway subnet sit within a subnet defined as a local network - e.g. you cannot use 10.1.180.0/29 as a gateway subnet and then have one of your local networks defined as 10.1.0.0/16. The exception to this is where you are using BGP with your VPN tunnels, in which case the only restriction on addressing is that you cannot advertise a route that exactly matches one of your VNets, but you can advertise a much larger route.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/vpn-gateway-bgp-overview#prefix

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


deedee megadoodoo posted:

Yeah, I guess that makes sense. I can probably pretty easily put in a lambda that triggers on policy creation to scan the policy for anything related to the specific services we're limiting access to. Then just generate an email to the user and to my team with the details of the policy if it's got dumb stuff in it.

An explicit deny rule will always take precedence over anything else, maybe you can get creative with those.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Cancelbot posted:

London, or to use what I've head from other AWS people: LHR14.

Holborn Viaduct?

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


How about https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/reverse-desired-state-configuration-how-it-works/

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Does this help you?

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/accessible-restricted-s3-website/

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Is this any use?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15011

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


I'm trying to help our development team structure their AWS setup a bit better, and have been reading up on AWS Organizations and SSO since it started supporting SAML and SCIM from external directories rather than having to run a managed AD or an AD connector.

Currently everything happens in one AWS account and the dev team handle their own account creation/revocation which isn't going to be an option as the team grows. From what I've read the way to go is:

- Enable AWS Organisations and enable SSO in the master account, link to Azure AD and assign roles to AD groups
- Create a new AWS account for each purpose (dev, test, prod, anything being developed for a third party so the account can be just passed over to them if required)
- Don't use IAM accounts any more, use temporary IAM role accounts with CLI tools

Is it recommended to create a new AWS account to use for the master account role in Organizations, and then invite the current AWS account as a member? I vaguely remember reading this somewhere but I can't find any reference to it in the AWS docs now.

Will this all end in tears or is Organizations w/SSO a mature offering now? I know I am going to get a load of poo poo from the dev team the first time they're trying to follow some AWS docs and there's a disclaimer about it not working for SSO users (think the amount of Google stuff that doesn't work with G Suite accounts). If I need to hold off to have a smoother implementation experience then I can do that, it's already going to be enough of a struggle to stop this team doing whatever the gently caress they want but it's achievable if the end result is positive.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


I'm trying to convince our developers to move to AWS Organisations and put SSO in, authing against Azure AD. They seem to think that SSO is less secure because if you're already logged into Azure AD then you don't have to put a password in again to use AWS (I've already done a conditional access demo), so actually having all the accounts separate is better. The other push back I'm getting is that because they are only a small team that their manager is happy to create and turn off accounts as required.

If were big enough to have a security team I'd get them to have a word. I'm also a bit confused at a software developer actively pushing back against automating a process (new starter when in the right group automatically pops up in AWS ready to be assigned permissions) but I think a part of it is empire building.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Is there an Azure equivalent of the Google Identity-Aware Proxy?

I just want to put a service in Azure that exposes a web UI, and put that behind an Azure AD login as it's an internal-only service. Azure AD Application Proxy would work, but it would need to run on a separate Windows VM, and I can't see any sort of as-a-service version of it for workloads that are already in Azure.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


The Fool posted:

Pretty sure they want you to integrate azure ad directly or use saml in that situation.

See the custom developed and non-gallery options at this link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/manage-apps/what-is-application-management

It's less for the integrated sign-in and more because it prevents anybody from hitting the application until they have authenticated - I don't want to expose it to the world. With Azure AD Application Proxy (love these snappy product names), an on-prem app doesn't see a request until the user has been through authentication, so any glaring security issues are only able to be exploited by our own staff.

It's not an application we develop so I have no control over linking it into our Azure AD, I just don't trust it enough to expose it to the Internet.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


I posted this in the printers thread, not sure if you saw it

https://www.printnode.com/en

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Correct, but consider the amount of time it would take you to get 85TB back if you had to.

Would a storage-only Snowball Edge fit your requirements? They are pretty cheap to hire and then you’ve got 100TB connected at up to 100Gbit to play with.

Thanks Ants fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Jan 16, 2021

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May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Is there any way to get better logs out of SES when it's being used as an SMTP relay? Something like source IP, access key/IAM user, from and to address.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


How are the health checks done? Can you publish another service on the SIP endpoints and set the health checks to require both to return as healthy, then just shut the non-5060 service down when you want the load balancer to drain the endpoint?

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


A VPN connection to AWS is two tunnels with asymmetric routing enabled - do you have both tunnels up and a bad route? Try bringing a tunnel down temporarily to see what happens.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


I had this video randomly appear on YouTube and just nope nope nope nope, whatever these people get paid is worth it

https://youtu.be/AK47SC6kr_A

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


The TfL data sets can be interesting to work with as well:

https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/our-open-data?intcmp=3671

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


CloudFront in front of S3 using Amazon-generated certs is how I handle HTTP to HTTPS redirects, hosting static content (e.g. images for mail signatures), and redirects to other places (using the redirect feature in S3). Every couple of years when I remember I will go into the CloudFront distribution and change the security template it uses (the thing that decides what ciphers to support) to whatever the latest recommended one is.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Or even a domain name dedicated to it.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


I've done SQL installed on a VM before where it was hosting a really badly written app that the developer weren't interested in making any changes to in order for it to be compatible with :yaycloud: database products. If it's something being developed in-house then you need to make it in a way that is compatible with RDS etc.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Ending SA shouldn't automatically result in having to scramble to do anything, it just means they have to hold on the release they're running

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


$4000/year for software that makes your business run is incredibly good value. That's like a day a month of someone's time if they're on a salary of $80k, and instead of some minimum viable product that has a bus factor of 1, you get a solution with a support team behind it.

If you have to have something built in house then would you be able to do it with something like AppSheet?

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


I miss the early days of covid where vendors were desperately trying to get any sales engagement at all after all spending flatlined, so they'd invite you to webinars and chuck in Deliveroo/Just Eat vouchers. Synology paid me a £25 beer gift card to learn all about hybrid file shares.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

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kalel posted:

what an odd statement. that's the nature of a forum. a post invites posts which invite posts, ipso facto. if that doesn't work for you, start a diary

They mean that you can't just smash a "like" button

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


S3 File Gateway would work, if you just need to copy files out of S3 and to a volume then rclone will also do the job.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


- Don't migrate your VMs to EC2 and wonder why :yaycloud: isn't giving you the savings that it was advertised as being able to bring

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Also I think it's important to know when the cloud isn't the right option. If you need to run an enterprise app that is going to eat 16 cores 24x7 and make billions of storage transactions, has strict requirements in terms of what OS runs and the memory settings you use etc. then buy the Dell servers and an FC SAN and run it it your own data centres. Not every app is right for the cloud, it's something that can be changed when you go back out to tender for the software next time around, but there's no point fighting and trying to run something in AWS that the people writing the application expect to be on-prem with 2ms latency to your MRI scanner or whatever.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Isn’t it “ rather than ‘

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May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Can AWS employees still use Slack or is everybody being forced to use "Wickr" now?

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May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


I wish the Azure DNS Private Resolver was cheaper

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


It's unjustifiably expensive for what it is. It's a nice looking product though, hopefully someone else can have a go at competing (looking at you, Cloudflare).

It would be nice if it didn't need a VPN link to work - I have sites where it would be very helpful to be able to chuck a couple of DNS servers into their gateway, tell the service what public IP my requests were coming from, and be able to return private DNS records along with acting as a resolver for the network with some basic malware domain filtering.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Azure needs to become a registrar

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Pile Of Garbage posted:

They don't even need to become a registrar themselves. They can just partner with one or more registrars and tightly-couple their systems with the real registrar. That's what Amazon does for many ccTLDs. e.g. for .au they're partnered with Gandi. Of course if your buy your domain entirely within the R53 console you'd be none the wiser: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/au.html

Yeah it could all go through an API to Gandi if they wanted, I just want people to be able to buy domains and have the IAM features of Azure.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Build the environment for the purpose of taking screenshots or video but then tear it all down when you're done.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


I've been dropped into a situation where someone has had their SES service suspended after AWS detected potential misuse. I'm 99% sure this is a "the horse is out the barn door" scenario and I am aware that email sucks, but is there any way to access a log of sent messages, the IP address making the request, how it was authenticated (e.g. access key used), subject line of the email, destination etc. or is that all logging that you have to configure yourself if you want access to the data?

Assuming the answer to the above is "you're out of luck, build it yourself" is there a handy best practises guide that is worth paying attention to in terms of getting a good balance between what it being sent to Cloudwatch and the cost of doing so?

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Event publishing looks like it will do most of the work, the auto tags are pretty much what we're after and then it's just a case of having the information present itself back out again in a way that makes sense.

Knowing what I know about the people using this service I think I'm going to push for them to move to a more managed platform that will do all this for them even if it costs a bit more than SES, they aren't really at the level where they can be consuming raw AWS services.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


FYI it's quite unlikely that AWS support would help you figure out if your CA was being used by anything, that's at least a Business tier support offering and more likely they put you in touch with a consultant. If it's just looking at the list of issued certs then they might help with that, but I would expect them to avoid saying anything like "those certs aren't being used and you can delete the CA".

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Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


I want to see the legal precedent be that chat bots are representatives of the company that uses them, and so the company is liable for any claim they make. It would at least stop people from using them.

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