Tag: Multiple accounts

At this time, enabling the PCI DSS standard from within AWS Security Hub enables this compliance framework only within the HAQM Web Services (AWS) account you are presently administering. This blog post showcases a solution that can be used to customize the configuration and deployment of the PCI DSS standard compliance standard using AWS Security […]

How quickly you respond to security incidents is key to minimizing their impacts. Automating incident response helps you scale your capabilities, rapidly reduce the scope of compromised resources, and reduce repetitive work by security teams. But when you use automation, you also must manage exceptions to standard response procedures. In this post, I provide a […]

March 31, 2025: We provided a note and links to resources in the third use case on using Route 53 profiles as a best practice to enable DNS resolutions between VPCs in different AWS accounts. April 19, 2023: In the section “Create private hosted zones” we updated step 1 to fix syntax error. September 27, […]

September 12, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. December 2, 2019: Since the author wrote this post, AWS Single Sign On (AWS IAM Identity Center) has launched native features that simplify using […]

September 9, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. Introduced at AWS re:Invent 2017, HAQM GuardDuty is a managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior to help you protect your AWS accounts and workloads. In an AWS Blog post, Jeff Barr shows you how to […]