Season 3 Episode 38 - Q Developer, Security Group Sharing, and Amazon's RTO

In Season 3, Episode 38 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Anna Astori. They discuss Q Developer, Amazon VPC, AWS WAF, celebrating 10 years of Amazon ECS, Amazon return to office policy and once again Karl tries to extract trade secrets from our guest!

03:05 - AWS launches in-line Q Developer AI coding assistant to take on Microsoft’s Github Copilot

The speakers discuss the launch of AWS's Q Developer, an AI coding assistant to compete with GitHub Copilot. Jon is skeptical about the usefulness compared to IntelliSense. Anna agrees there are pros and cons. The new integration with CodeWhisperer model 3.5 could improve it.

13:13 - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud launches new security group sharing features 

Jon explains the benefits of the new VPC security group sharing feature for connecting resources across VPCs more securely.

17:30 - How to mitigate bot traffic by implementing Challenge actions in your AWS WAF custom rules 

The article explains how to use WAF challenge actions to mitigate bot traffic. Jon provides an overview of how rate limiting and bot control in WAF work.

23:52 - Celebrating 10 Years of Amazon ECS: Powering a Decade of Containerized Innovation 

They discuss EC2 Container Service turning 10 years old. Jon explains the pricing and simplicity benefits of ECS compared to Kubernetes.

29:40 - Amazon workers 'appalled' by AWS CEO’s return to office remarks, urge policy reversal 

Employees wrote an open letter criticizing the mandated return to 5 days a week in office. Anna and Jon discuss the discrimination concerns and why hybrid doesn't work.

Guest was Anna Astori

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-astori/

https://annaeastori.medium.com/

https://x.com/AmaMidzu