R&D Weekly
This week the base2 research and develoment team have been looking into
Administer CloudFormation StackSets from a delegated account
Stacksets no longer have to be deployed to the root account of your AWS organisation, it can be deligated to another account. This allows you to follow the best practice of granting least privilege, which limits the exposure of your AWS Organizations management account.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/cloudformation-stacksets-delegated-administration/
Amazon RDS Publishes New Events for Multi-AZ Deployments
Amazon is now publishing failover and maintenance events for RDS Multi-AZ deployments, this will help us catch potential issues early.
Cross Account Data Replication
Rclone will sync data across multiple cloud providors including AWS S3, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox and Google Cloud Storage.