Ben Bridts
@benbridts.be
If you are attending AWS re:Invent this year and are wondering which sessions you can still reserve a seat for now that the first rush is over; I made you a list of sessions I added to my short list that are not at capacity yet: reinvent-planner.cloud/sessions/sha...
Unofficial AWS re:Invent Session Planner 2025
Easily browse sessions, create a personalized schedule, and get recommendations to make the most of your AWS re:Invent experience.
reinvent-planner.cloud
October 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
If you are attending AWS re:Invent this year and are wondering which sessions you can still reserve a seat for now that the first rush is over; I made you a list of sessions I added to my short list that are not at capacity yet: reinvent-planner.cloud/sessions/sha...
Time to start practicing how to say "eusc-de-east-1"
October 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Time to start practicing how to say "eusc-de-east-1"
Usually I'm the one called by work after hours, but today I'm watching my partner deal with "our -80 freezer is not cooling anymore" on a Friday evening.
It starts surprisingly similar to "our server is running out of disk space"... but ends with a lot more people with protective gloves in one room
It starts surprisingly similar to "our server is running out of disk space"... but ends with a lot more people with protective gloves in one room
October 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Usually I'm the one called by work after hours, but today I'm watching my partner deal with "our -80 freezer is not cooling anymore" on a Friday evening.
It starts surprisingly similar to "our server is running out of disk space"... but ends with a lot more people with protective gloves in one room
It starts surprisingly similar to "our server is running out of disk space"... but ends with a lot more people with protective gloves in one room
I'm biased, but +1.
@fwdcloudsec.org Europe 2025 was incredible! Amazing talks, amazing research, and amazing people. There is no other conference I would recommend for cloud security people. Looking forward to next year!
September 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I'm biased, but +1.
I'm on my way home from a very inspiring week!
What an amazing week in Seattle at the AWS Heroes Summit!
Heroes- you're an inspiring group, who uplift and mentor so many in your communities, while also pushing for innovation out of AWS. Thank you for all that you do, and a special shout-out to the newest Heroes🙏👏
Heroes- you're an inspiring group, who uplift and mentor so many in your communities, while also pushing for innovation out of AWS. Thank you for all that you do, and a special shout-out to the newest Heroes🙏👏
August 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I'm on my way home from a very inspiring week!
I just witnessed this perfectly geeky exchange at work:
- I'm going to cache 404 errors for 30 seconds
- What about 418 errors?
- 3 to 4 minutes seems the most common time that people wait
- How about we follow ISO 3103 and do 6 minutes exactly?
- I'm going to cache 404 errors for 30 seconds
- What about 418 errors?
- 3 to 4 minutes seems the most common time that people wait
- How about we follow ISO 3103 and do 6 minutes exactly?
August 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I just witnessed this perfectly geeky exchange at work:
- I'm going to cache 404 errors for 30 seconds
- What about 418 errors?
- 3 to 4 minutes seems the most common time that people wait
- How about we follow ISO 3103 and do 6 minutes exactly?
- I'm going to cache 404 errors for 30 seconds
- What about 418 errors?
- 3 to 4 minutes seems the most common time that people wait
- How about we follow ISO 3103 and do 6 minutes exactly?
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I did a fun thing and gave every Belgian access to my AWS Account (or: playing around with IAM Roles Anywhere)
cloudar.be/awsblog/sign...
cloudar.be/awsblog/sign...
Sign in with your eID: Using AWS IAM Roles Anywhere with a SmartCard Reader
Using temporary credentials to access resources, has long been a best practice and is usually straight-forward if the person or machine that is starting the action is already known in AWS (either by u...
cloudar.be
June 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I did a fun thing and gave every Belgian access to my AWS Account (or: playing around with IAM Roles Anywhere)
cloudar.be/awsblog/sign...
cloudar.be/awsblog/sign...
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There's still time to apply for our scholarship which aims to give students or career changers a ticket and travel stipend to attend fwd:cloudsec Europe in Berlin, this September!
Details here: fwdcloudsec.org/assets/docs/...
Details here: fwdcloudsec.org/assets/docs/...
fwdcloudsec.org
June 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
There's still time to apply for our scholarship which aims to give students or career changers a ticket and travel stipend to attend fwd:cloudsec Europe in Berlin, this September!
Details here: fwdcloudsec.org/assets/docs/...
Details here: fwdcloudsec.org/assets/docs/...
AWS documentation: "just trust me, bro"
Jenkins documentation: 🚨🚨🚨
Jenkins documentation: 🚨🚨🚨
June 5, 2025 at 7:29 AM
AWS documentation: "just trust me, bro"
Jenkins documentation: 🚨🚨🚨
Jenkins documentation: 🚨🚨🚨
Reposted by Ben Bridts
The CFP for fwd:cloudsec Europe is now open! We're looking for practitioner-focused cloud security content, and we encourage all practitioners to submit, whatever your role or level of experience.
The CFP is open until July 11th. Read more: fwdcloudsec.org/conference/e...
The CFP is open until July 11th. Read more: fwdcloudsec.org/conference/e...
CFP | EU 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...
fwdcloudsec.org
May 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The CFP for fwd:cloudsec Europe is now open! We're looking for practitioner-focused cloud security content, and we encourage all practitioners to submit, whatever your role or level of experience.
The CFP is open until July 11th. Read more: fwdcloudsec.org/conference/e...
The CFP is open until July 11th. Read more: fwdcloudsec.org/conference/e...
Time to reset the "days since an AI-guessed configuration option blew up in someone's face" counter...
April 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Time to reset the "days since an AI-guessed configuration option blew up in someone's face" counter...
This is a very niche thing, but there is now a (not canonical) place with all the smithy models of all the AWS API supported by the AWS CLI:
github.com/aws/api-mode...
This does not include all available models, for that we still need @frichetten.com 's repo github.com/Frichetten/a...
github.com/aws/api-mode...
This does not include all available models, for that we still need @frichetten.com 's repo github.com/Frichetten/a...
GitHub - aws/api-models-aws
Contribute to aws/api-models-aws development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
This is a very niche thing, but there is now a (not canonical) place with all the smithy models of all the AWS API supported by the AWS CLI:
github.com/aws/api-mode...
This does not include all available models, for that we still need @frichetten.com 's repo github.com/Frichetten/a...
github.com/aws/api-mode...
This does not include all available models, for that we still need @frichetten.com 's repo github.com/Frichetten/a...
Reposted by Ben Bridts
We’re thrilled to announce that the second edition of fwd:cloudsec Europe will take place on September 15-16 in Berlin!
fwdcloudsec.org/conference/e...
fwdcloudsec.org/conference/e...
fwd:cloudsec Europe 2024 | 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...
fwdcloudsec.org
March 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
We’re thrilled to announce that the second edition of fwd:cloudsec Europe will take place on September 15-16 in Berlin!
fwdcloudsec.org/conference/e...
fwdcloudsec.org/conference/e...
Besides hanging out on the internet, I also play in a symphonic windband. This weekend we (narrowly) placed first in the Flemish Open Windband Championship, securing a ticket to the European Championship for Wind Orchestras.
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
Koninklijk HarmonieOrkest Schelle wint Vlaams kampioenschap voor harmonies na ex aequo
www.vrt.be
March 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Besides hanging out on the internet, I also play in a symphonic windband. This weekend we (narrowly) placed first in the Flemish Open Windband Championship, securing a ticket to the European Championship for Wind Orchestras.
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
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Messages like this always warm my heart. Cloud security research is all about improving the safety and security of the platform to protect users.
February 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Messages like this always warm my heart. Cloud security research is all about improving the safety and security of the platform to protect users.
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Load management is all around us - from restaurants handling the lunch rush to cloud systems balancing millions of requests. Mike Haken’s latest Builders' Library article shows how the principles never change: detect early, adapt quickly, degrade gracefully. aws.amazon.com/builders-lib...
February 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Load management is all around us - from restaurants handling the lunch rush to cloud systems balancing millions of requests. Mike Haken’s latest Builders' Library article shows how the principles never change: detect early, adapt quickly, degrade gracefully. aws.amazon.com/builders-lib...
Three more days to write your Valentine cards!
"You're the model that will make my bedrock"
February 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Three more days to write your Valentine cards!
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Reading Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" fascicles as they came out was incredibly key to discovering the Shuffle Sharding pattern, but I don't think I've ever written about it before ...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4297...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4297...
Back in 2010 when we were building Amazon Route 53, we had a really big problem ... | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Reading Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" fascicles as they came out was incredibly key to discovering the Shuffle Sharding pattern, but I don't think I've ever written about it before ...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4297...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4297...
Reposted by Ben Bridts
🚨 Last day to apply for the AWS Community Builders program! 🚨
✅ Exclusive resources
✅ Mentorship from AWS experts
✅ A global community of passionate builders
Don’t miss your chance to level up—applications close tonight, Jan 20!
👉 Apply now: go.aws/3CblHcy
#AWSCommunity #AWS
✅ Exclusive resources
✅ Mentorship from AWS experts
✅ A global community of passionate builders
Don’t miss your chance to level up—applications close tonight, Jan 20!
👉 Apply now: go.aws/3CblHcy
#AWSCommunity #AWS
January 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🚨 Last day to apply for the AWS Community Builders program! 🚨
✅ Exclusive resources
✅ Mentorship from AWS experts
✅ A global community of passionate builders
Don’t miss your chance to level up—applications close tonight, Jan 20!
👉 Apply now: go.aws/3CblHcy
#AWSCommunity #AWS
✅ Exclusive resources
✅ Mentorship from AWS experts
✅ A global community of passionate builders
Don’t miss your chance to level up—applications close tonight, Jan 20!
👉 Apply now: go.aws/3CblHcy
#AWSCommunity #AWS
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“How many keys do I need?“ is a post you might have missed after re:invent. It contains insights about criteria and strategies when it comes to using and managing KMS keys. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-kms-how-many-keys-do-i-need/ #aws #security
AWS KMS: How many keys do I need? | Amazon Web Services
As organizations continue their cloud journeys, effective data security in the cloud is a top priority. Whether it’s protecting customer information, intellectual property, or compliance-mandated…
aws.amazon.com
December 26, 2024 at 8:31 PM
“How many keys do I need?“ is a post you might have missed after re:invent. It contains insights about criteria and strategies when it comes to using and managing KMS keys. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-kms-how-many-keys-do-i-need/ #aws #security
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There is a huge advantage to this over blockenheimer: you can tell why you blocked them because it'll say what list has them blocked, and removal is automatic if the person unfollows instead of sticking forever (think: journalist who was following but switches to another way of monitoring)
@suboptimal.technology and @jessothomson.bsky.social both maintain them. Julia Serano can vouch for the latter, I can vouch for the former.
December 13, 2024 at 9:50 PM
There is a huge advantage to this over blockenheimer: you can tell why you blocked them because it'll say what list has them blocked, and removal is automatic if the person unfollows instead of sticking forever (think: journalist who was following but switches to another way of monitoring)
Back for our yearly tradition of a re:invent keynote thread.
Just like last-year I will only post when I have something extra to add, there's others to follow for play-by-play.
Just like last-year I will only post when I have something extra to add, there's others to follow for play-by-play.
December 3, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Back for our yearly tradition of a re:invent keynote thread.
Just like last-year I will only post when I have something extra to add, there's others to follow for play-by-play.
Just like last-year I will only post when I have something extra to add, there's others to follow for play-by-play.
Reposted by Ben Bridts
One of the small quality-of-life improvement specs I've been closely following for a bit now:
httpwg.org/http-extensi...
Sharing just cause I'm not sure how many folks have been paying attention to HTTP maybe getting a new verb soon 😍
httpwg.org/http-extensi...
Sharing just cause I'm not sure how many folks have been paying attention to HTTP maybe getting a new verb soon 😍
The HTTP QUERY Method
This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent
request method that can carry request content.
httpwg.org
November 25, 2024 at 3:37 AM
One of the small quality-of-life improvement specs I've been closely following for a bit now:
httpwg.org/http-extensi...
Sharing just cause I'm not sure how many folks have been paying attention to HTTP maybe getting a new verb soon 😍
httpwg.org/http-extensi...
Sharing just cause I'm not sure how many folks have been paying attention to HTTP maybe getting a new verb soon 😍