AWS News Blog

Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

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HAQM EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on HAQM EKS clusters

Starting today, you can use HAQM EKS Pod Identity to simplify your applications that access AWS services. This enhancement provides you with a seamless and easy to configure experience that lets you define required IAM permissions for your applications in HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) clusters so you can connect with AWS services outside […]

GuardDuty ECS Runtime Monitoring

Detect runtime security threats in HAQM ECS and AWS Fargate, new in HAQM GuardDuty

Today, we’re announcing HAQM GuardDuty ECS Runtime Monitoring to help detect potential runtime security issues in HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) clusters running on both AWS Fargate and HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2). GuardDuty combines machine learning (ML), anomaly detection, network monitoring, and malicious file discovery against various AWS data sources. When threats […]

HAQM Detective adds new capabilities to accelerate and improve your cloud security investigations

Today, HAQM Detective adds four new capabilities to help you save time and strengthen your security operations. First, Detective investigations for IAM help security analysts investigate AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) objects, such as users and roles, for indicators of compromise (IoCs) to determine potential involvement in known tactics from the MITRE ATT&CK framework. […]

New – AWS Audit Manager now supports first third-party GRC integration

Auditing is a continuous and ongoing process, and every audit includes the collection of evidence. The evidence gathered helps confirm the state of resources and it’s used to demonstrate that the customer’s policies, procedures, and activities (controls), are in place, and that the control has been operational for a specified period of time. AWS Audit […]

AWS Weekly Roundup

AWS Weekly Roundup—Reserve GPU capacity for short ML workloads, Finch is GA, and more—November 6, 2023

The year is coming to an end, and there are only 50 days until Christmas and 21 days to AWS re:Invent! If you are in Las Vegas, come and say hi to me. I will be around the Serverlesspresso booth most of the time. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during […]

Rotate Your SSL/TLS Certificates Now – HAQM RDS and HAQM Aurora Expire in 2024

Don’t be surprised if you have seen the Certificate Update in the HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) console. If you use or plan to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) with certificate verification to connect to your database instances of HAQM RDS for MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and […]

AWS Weekly Roundup

AWS Weekly Roundup – HAQM MWAA, EMR Studio, Generative AI, and More – August 14, 2023

While I enjoyed a few days off in California to get a dose of vitamin sea, a lot has happened in the AWS universe. Let’s take a look together! Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention: HAQM MWAA now supports Apache Airflow version 2.6 – HAQM Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow […]

AWS Week in Review – HAQM EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint, Detective, HAQM S3 Dual Layer Encryption, HAQM Verified Permission – June 19, 2023

This week, I’ll meet you at AWS partner’s Jamf Nation Live in Amsterdam where we’re showing how to use HAQM EC2 Mac to deploy your remote developer workstations or configure your iOS CI/CD pipelines in the cloud. Last Week’s Launches While I was traveling last week, I kept an eye on the AWS News. Here […]