About AntAnt Co-founded A Cloud Guru, ServerlessConf, JeffConf, ServerlessDays and now running Senzo/Homeschool, in between other things. He needs to work on his decision making.Links:
A Cloud Guru: https://acloudguru.com

homeschool.dev: https://homeschool.dev

aws.training: https://aws.training

learn.microsoft.com: https://learn.microsoft.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamstan

TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Thinkst. This is going to take a minute to explain, so bear with me. I linked against an early version of their tool, canarytokens.org in the very early days of my newsletter, and what it does is relatively simple and straightforward. It winds up embedding credentials, files, that sort of thing in various parts of your environment, wherever you want to; it gives you fake AWS API credentials, for example. And the only thing that these things do is alert you whenever someone attempts to use those things. It’s an awesome approach. I’ve used something similar for years. Check them out. But wait, there’s more. They also have an enterprise option that you should be very much aware of canary.tools. You can take a look at this, but what it does is it provides an enterprise approach to drive these things throughout your entire environment. You can get a physical device that hangs out on your network and impersonates whatever you want to. When it gets Nmap scanned, or someone attempts to log into it, or access files on it, you get instant alerts. It’s awesome. If you don’t do something like this, you’re likely to find out that you’ve gotten breached, the hard way. Take a look at this. It’s one of those few things that I look at and say, “Wow, that is an amazing idea. I love it.” That’s canarytokens.org and canary.tools. The first one is free. The second one is enterprise-y. Take a look. I’m a big fan of this. More from them in the coming weeks.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part my Cribl Logstream. Cirbl Logstream is an observability pipeline that lets you collect, reduce, transform, and route machine data from anywhere, to anywhere. Simple right? As a nice bonus it not only helps you improve visibility into what the hell is going on, but also helps you save money almost by accident. Kind of like not putting a whole bunch of vowels and other letters that would be easier to spell in a company name. To learn more visit: cribl.ioCorey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I’m Corey Quinn. Every once in a while I talk to someone about, “Oh, yeah, remember that time that you appeared on Screaming in the Cloud?” And it turns out that they didn’t; it was something of a fever dream. Today is one of those guests that I’m, frankly, astonished I haven’t had on before: Ant Stanley. Ant, thank you so much for indulging me and somehow forgiving me for not having you on previously.Ant: Hey, Corey, thanks for that. Yeah, I’m not too sure why I haven’t been on previously. You can explain that to me over a beer one day.Corey: Absolutely, and I’m sure I’ll be the one that buys it because that is just inexcusable. So, who are you? What do you do? I know that you’re a Serverless Hero at AWS, which is probably the most self-aggrandizing thing you can call someone because who in the world in their right mind is going to introduce themselves that way? That’s what you have me for. I’ll introduce you that way. So, you’re an AWS Serverless Hero. What does that mean?Ant: So, the Serverless Hero, effectively I’ve been recognized for my contribution to the serverless community, what that contribution is potentially dubious. But yeah, I was one of the original