Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

Hello, everyone! It’s been an interesting week full of AWS news as usual, but also full of vibrant faces filling up the rooms in a variety of events happening this month. Let’s start by covering some of the releases that have caught my attention this week. My Top 3 AWS news announcements of the week […]

You know what I find more exciting than the HAQM Prime Day sale? Finding out how HAQM Web Services (AWS) makes it all happen. Every year, I wait eagerly for Jeff Barr’s annual post to read the chart-topping metrics. The scale never ceases to amaze me. This year, Channy Yun and Jeff Barr bring us […]

Dive into the numbers from HAQM’s record-breaking Prime Day 2024, from AI chip deployment to the staggering transaction volumes across AWS services like HAQM DynamoDB, Aurora, CloudFront, and more.

I counted only 21 AWS news since last Monday, most of them being Regional expansions of existing services and capabilities. I hope you enjoyed a relatively quiet week, because this one will be busier. This week, we’re welcoming our customers and partners at the Jacob Javits Convention Center for the AWS Summit New York on […]

Last week, my alma mater Standard Bank Group (SBG) hosted a Software Engineering Conference and invited me to be one of the keynote speakers. SBG has presence throughout Africa and this hybrid conference was attended by almost 2,000 engineers from across the continent. It was amazing to reconnect with long-time friends and former colleagues, and […]

Gain comprehensive visibility with the AWS Audit Manager generative AI best practices framework v2, which now includes HAQM SageMaker.

HAQM GuardDuty expands malware scanning to secure S3 uploads, enabling continuous monitoring and isolation of malicious files without infrastructure overhead.

New custom policy checks for critical resources, public access detection, and guided revocation to remove unused permissions – proactively securing AWS environments with tailored analysis and actionable insights.