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Victor Grenu
@zoph.me
Just another cloud consultant.
Coding in 2026 is like:

- Playing Starcraft with "Show me the money".
- \devmap q3tourney2 + \god in Q3.
- DNKROZ in Duke Nukem.
- IDDQD for Doom.

Your turn.
January 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Next Stops in 2026:

- Multi-Cloud Support with Azure and GCP.
- Better historical comparison.
- New detections of unused services.
- CUR Deep Analysis.

- Keep on chasing. 🧡
January 7, 2026 at 3:56 PM
5. Amazon SNS Integration to let you automate remediations.
6. Unused AWS Transfer Family detection.
7. Revamped WebApp and Landing Page.
January 7, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Lately, we've added many new features to unusd, thanks to customers' feedback.

1. Navi - Our AI assistant to better understand your cloud spend.
2. Management Reports - C-Level reports (Org Wide).
3. Support of Savings Plans and RIs.
4. Drift Detection with advanced Algorithms.
January 7, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Final Word
- Mimic: Choose when you need to evade blocking/detection
- WireGuard: Choose when you want speed and aren't worried about being blocked
January 6, 2026 at 8:03 AM
WireGuard
- Fast, lightweight VPN protocol with strong encryption
- Easy to detect by network monitoring systems
- Excellent speed and battery efficiency on mobile
- Built into many modern VPN services
January 6, 2026 at 8:03 AM
I knew about WireGuard, but what is Mimic (Avast)?

Mimic
- Disguises VPN traffic to look like normal web browsing
- Designed to bypass firewalls and censorship systems
- Slower performance due to traffic disguising techniques
- Better for accessing blocked social media in restrictive countries
January 6, 2026 at 8:03 AM
December is generally a good time for gifts, and I have a special one for you.

We are glad to announce fwd:cloudsec Europe 2026: September 7th and 8th - London, UK 🇬🇧

More info to come early 2026. Stay tuned, folks.
December 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
October 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I've put a focus on brand new policies shipped by AWS (VersionId = "v1").
October 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Just shipped a compagnon website for MAMIP, the tool that detects change made by AWS on IAM Managed Policy.

Let me know what do you think of this first version. I'm considering adding many new features in the next upcoming weeks.
October 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Check out the full schedule here: fwdcloudsec.org/conference/...

Not in Berlin? No worries, you can join us live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/-a9Ts7...

It's going to be a packed day of sharp insights and real-world lessons for cloud security l33ts.
fwd:cloudsec Europe 2025 - Day 1
Full schedule: https://fwdcloudsec.org/conference/north-america/schedule.htmlJoin the conversation on Slack: https://fwdcloudsec.org/forum/
www.youtube.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just 2 hours to go before fwd:cloudsec Europe kicks off here in Berlin! 🇩🇪

We’ve got an incredible lineup of speakers this year covering the latest in cloud security, from IAM and supply chain risks to practical defense strategies.
September 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Next move: Found a budget running watch. Any recommendations?

Keep moving, folks! 🏃

Links in the first comment.
August 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
- Statistics for Strava, a self-hosted (On Synology) container with tons of stats, dashboards, everything well presented, and Private. (See screenshots)
- As a previous NRC (Nike Running Club) user, I wanted to import my history of runs since 2011, and found on Reddit the perfect tool: Claim-NRC.
August 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Since January, I've resumed running. It's part of my New Year's resolution: new gear and a more challenging routine after a seven-year pause and passing the 40-year milestone.

I'm now using Strava only to record my activities, and I've found a few cool FOSS initiatives that are game changers.
August 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The lineup for fwd:cloudsec Europe is revealed, presenting a two-day event filled with top-tier presentations on a single track, alongside engaging "Birds of a Feather" discussion sessions. Sponsorship slots remain open.

fwdcloudsec.org/conference/...

See you there, folks! 🇩🇪
fwd:cloudsec Europe 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 features, the pros and cons of different security strategies, and generally the types of things cloud practitioners want to know, but that don't fit neatly into a vendor conference schedule.
fwdcloudsec.org
August 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
We need an always-on wearable device for this "assistant" use case. It's most useful when your hands are occupied, like when driving or doing DIY tasks.

My most-used assistant: Perplexity voice mode. What's yours?
August 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We all agree that Alexa, Siri, and Google aren't yet equipped to handle these cases, and, with the rise of LLM, these assistants seem even less intelligent.
August 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We are living in a unique time where core software technology is ready, but the hardware or device component is lacking.

Several times a day, I use an LLM for work-related questions, and at home, I often rely on voice interaction for personal queries.
August 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Sometimes, stats are very painful to read.

You're sharing engaging content and OSS AWS projects, yet your blog's most popular post is an eight-year-old paper on interacting with the JIRA API using PowerShell.

Rude.
July 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
All this hard work, simplicity, redundancy, and integrity come at a cost.

Focus your effort on the business value of your product/service, rather than on building everything yourself.

Which OSS surprises you most?
July 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Glacier → Tape Libraries (LTO)
AWS Hyperplane → FreeBSD-based
Lambda/Fargate → Firecracker (fork of Google's crosvm)

Most used languages at AWS are (in this order): Java, C/C++, Rust, Go, then Python.
July 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
AWS is not magic; it's a compilation of hard work and simplicity, executed at scale.

Well known AWS services are in fact, heavily customized OSS.

ALB → NGINX
ELB → HAProxy
EC2 → Xen, KVM
DynamoDB → InnoDB
Deep Glacier → BD-R optical
CloudFront → was NGINX + Squid
July 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reposted by Victor Grenu
ReadOnlyAccess, SecurityAudit, SystemAdministrator ... https://github.com/z0ph/MAMIP/commit/fcfd41a1
July 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM