AWS News Blog
Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance
AWS adds passkey multi-factor authentication (MFA) for root and IAM users
Fortify your AWS account security with new passkey MFA and mandatory root user MFA. Experience seamless authentication while bolstering protection against unauthorized access.
AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Heroes, HAQM API Gateway, HAQM Q and more (June 10, 2024)
In the last AWS Weekly Roundup, Channy reminded us on how life has ups and downs. It’s just how life is. But, that doesn’t mean that we should do it alone. Farouq Mousa, AWS Community Builder, is fighting brain cancer and Allen Helton, AWS Serverless Hero, his daughter is fighting leukemia. If you have a […]
Simplify risk and compliance assessments with the new common control library in AWS Audit Manager
Map enterprise controls to AWS data sources effortlessly with predefined, pre-mapped controls based on auditor reviews. Automatically inherit improvements as Audit Manager updates.
Simplify custom contact center insights with HAQM Connect analytics data lake
HAQM Connect’s analytics data lake centralizes customer data for powerful performance analysis without complex pipelines.
AWS analytics services streamline user access to data, permissions setting, and auditing
Streamline data access with trusted identity propagation: simplify sign-in, define fine-grained permissions, and audit using actual user identities across selected AWS analytics services.
Stop the CNAME chain struggle: Simplified management with Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall
Updated 2 May 2024: I removed the reference to Route53 Alias that was incorrectly referred as a chain Starting today, you can configure your DNS Firewall to automatically trust all domains in a resolution chain (such as aCNAMEor DNAMEchain). Let’s walk through this in nontechnical terms for those unfamiliar with DNS. Why use DNS Firewall? […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus in HAQM Bedrock, Meta Llama 3 in HAQM SageMaker JumpStart, and more (April 22, 2024)
AWS Summits continue to rock the world, with events taking place in various locations around the globe. AWS Summit London (April 24) is the last one in April, and there are nine more in May, including AWS Summit Berlin (May 15–16), AWS Summit Los Angeles (May 22), and AWS Summit Dubai (May 29). Join us […]
HAQM GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring is now generally available
HAQM GuardDuty is a machine learning (ML)-based security monitoring and intelligent threat detection service that analyzes and processes various AWS data sources, continuously monitors your AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity, and delivers detailed security findings for visibility and remediation. I love the feature of GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring that analyzes operating system (OS)-level, network, […]