Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

HAQM Inspector is a vulnerability management service that continually scans workloads across HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instances, container images living in HAQM Elastic Container Registry (HAQM ECR), and, starting today, AWS Lambda functions and Lambda layers. Until today, customers that wanted to analyze their mixed workloads (including EC2 instances, container images, and Lambda […]

Today, we announce automated data discovery for HAQM Macie. This new capability allows you to gain visibility into where your sensitive data resides on HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) at a fraction of the cost of running a full data inspection across all your S3 buckets. At AWS, security is our top priority. The […]

February 26, 2024 – Post updated to link to a sample CloudFormation hook in the AWS CloudFormation GitHub Repository. January 12, 2023 – Post updated with the current regional availability. When operating a business, you have to find the right balance between speed and control for your cloud operations. On one side, you want to […]

Update January 13 2023 : I removed the reference to AWS CDK. I am excited to announce the availability of AWS Wickr, an enterprise communications service with end-to-end encryption, that allows businesses and public sector organizations to communicate more securely, enabling customers to meet auditing and regulatory requirements like e-discovery, legal hold, and FOIA requests. […]

Today, customers in regulated industries face the challenge of defining and enforcing controls needed to meet compliance and security requirements while empowering engineers to make their design choices. In addition to addressing risk, reliability, performance, and resiliency requirements, organizations may also need to comply with frameworks and standards such as PCI DSS and NIST 800-53. […]

With HAQM Redshift, you can analyze data in the cloud at any scale. HAQM Redshift offers native data protection capabilities to protect your data using automatic and manual snapshots. This works great by itself, but when you’re using other AWS services, you have to configure more than one tool to manage your data protection policies. […]

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! A new week starts, and the News Blog team is getting ready for AWS re:Invent! Many of us will be there next week and it would be great to meet […]

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! Monday means it’s time for another Week in Review post, so, without further ado, let’s dive right in! Last Week’s Launches Here’s some launch announcements from last week you may […]