Software Asset Governance or Software Asset Management is a key component of an organization’s cyber security strategy. Different aspects of Software Asset Governance find notable mentions in renowned security frameworks and standards such as SANS CIS Critical Security Controls, NIST Special Publication 800-53, and Cloud Security Alliance’s Cloud Control Matrix. Read more…
License administrators can use AWS License Manager’s built-in integration with AWS CloudTrail to prepare for a software license vendor audit. Organizations typically entrust license administrators (belonging to Central IT or procurement departments) to manage licensing compliance across all their environments. With License Manager, administrators can create custom licensing rules to Read more…
By Irshad A. Buchh, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS By Manasi Prabhavalkar, Cloud Integration Architect at Aqua Security Customers running their microservices-based applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) come to Aqua Security looking for guidance about architecting end-to-end continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using DevSecOps Read more…
The trend of building AWS Serverless applications using AWS Lambda is increasing at an ever-rapid pace. Common use cases for AWS Lambda include data processing, real-time file processing, and extract, transform, and load (ETL) for data processing, web backends, internet of things (IoT) backends, and mobile backends. Lambda natively supports Read more…
I am excited to announce you can now create Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots from any block storage data, such as on-premises volumes, volumes from another cloud provider, existing block data stored on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), or even your own laptop 🙂 AWS customers using the cloud Read more…
Content, such as breaking news or sports scores, requires updates in near-real-time. To stay up to date, you may be constantly refreshing your browser or mobile app. Building APIs to deliver this content at speed and scale can be challenging. In this post, I present an alternative to an API-based Read more…
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) has quickly become a leading choice for machine learning workloads. It combines the developer agility and the scalability of Kubernetes, with the wide selection of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance types available on AWS, such as the C5, P3, and G4 families. As models Read more…
By Reese Pitman, Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS Your firewall, by design, is exposed to the internet and all the good and bad that comes with it. Closely monitoring these devices is a necessary component of the defense in depth strategy required to protect cloud environments from unwanted changes, and Read more…
In major integration merges, it’s sometimes necessary to verify the changes with existing online data. To inspect the changes with a cloned database can give us confidence to deploy to the production database. This post demonstrates how to use AWS CodeBuild and Amazon RDS Database Snapshot to verify your code Read more…
In this post, I demonstrate a sample workflow for generating a digital signature within AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and then verifying that signature on a client machine using OpenSSL. The support for asymmetric keys in AWS KMS has exciting use cases. The ability to create, manage, and use public Read more…