AWS Security Blog
Tag: AMIs
How to Set Up Continuous Golden AMI Vulnerability Assessments with HAQM Inspector
As companies mature in their cloud journey, they implement layered security capabilities and practices in their cloud architectures. One such practice is to continually assess golden HAQM Machine Images (AMIs) for security vulnerabilities. AMIs provide the information required to launch an HAQM EC2 instance, which is a virtual server in the AWS Cloud. A golden […]
In Case You Missed These: AWS Security Blog Posts from September and October
In case you missed any AWS Security Blog posts from September and October, they are summarized and linked to below. The posts are shown in reverse chronological order (most recent first), and the subject matter ranges from enabling multi-factor authentication on your AWS API calls to using HAQM CloudWatch Events to monitor application health. October […]
How to Create a Custom AMI with Encrypted HAQM EBS Snapshots and Share It with Other Accounts and Regions
August 31, 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. An HAQM Machine Image (AMI) provides the information required to launch an instance (a virtual […]