AWS Security Blog

Category: Analytics

How to retroactively encrypt existing objects in HAQM S3 using S3 Inventory, HAQM Athena, and S3 Batch Operations

November 1, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. HAQM Simple Storage Service (S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, performance, […]

How to analyze AWS WAF logs using HAQM Elasticsearch Service

September 9, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. Log analysis is essential for understanding the effectiveness of any security solution. It can be valuable for day-to-day troubleshooting and also for your long-term understanding of how your security environment is performing. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that […]

How to Visualize and Refine Your Network’s Security by Adding Security Group IDs to Your VPC Flow Logs

September 9, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. August 31, 2020: The directions in this blog post for how to create an HAQM ES cluster have been updated. February 28, 2019: The features and services described in this post have changed since the post was published and the […]

HAQM QuickSight Now Supports Audit Logging with AWS CloudTrail

HAQM QuickSight democratizes business intelligence, making it easier and cheaper for you to provide advanced business analytics capabilities to everyone in your organization. HAQM QuickSight also enables you to understand your business better and helps you make data-driven decisions more quickly. However, determining who has access to which data in your organization can still be […]

How to Control Access to Your HAQM Elasticsearch Service Domain

September 9, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. With the recent release of HAQM Elasticsearch Service (HAQM ES), you now can build applications without setting up and maintaining your own search cluster on HAQM EC2. One of the key benefits of using HAQM ES is that you can […]

HAQM Redshift and HAQM RDS Now Support Encryption via AWS Key Management Service in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region

Today, HAQM Redshift and HAQM RDS for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server DB released support for encryption using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. Using keys under your control, you can now encrypt RDS instances, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server DB instance types, and HAQM Redshift clusters in AWS GovCloud […]

New in HAQM EMR: Support for Federated Users

AWS announced yesterday that HAQM Elastic MapReduce (EMR) added support for federated users. If you use HAQM EMR, you can now enable users to administer HAQM EMR clusters who are signed in to your corporate network using their corporate credentials—you no longer need to create IAM users for access to EMR. Up to now, federated […]