AWS Config Rules allow customers to evaluate the configuration of resources against best practices and perform remediation when specified configuration policies are not being followed. Using AWS Config Conformance Packs, customers can create a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions in a single pack that can be deployed Read more…
By Jonathan Pape, Sr. Cloud Systems Engineer at Logicworks By Matthew Stockdale, Director of Professional Services at Logicworks As larger and more complex workloads are deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS), multi-account solutions are an increasingly common architectural blueprint. These multi-account blueprints, often referred to as cloud “landing zones,” enable Read more…
AWS Organizations enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage. Organizations includes consolidated billing and account management capabilities that enable you to better meet your business’s budgetary, security, and compliance needs. As an administrator of an organization, you can create member accounts Read more…
Virtualization quickly became a requirement to enable creative professionals to be productive during work from home mandates. This blog entry outlines key considerations when considering running your favorite post production applications from the AWS cloud. Customers frequently ask if they can run their editing software in AWS. From these inquiries, Read more…
Adobe Creative Cloud Suite can now run on AWS, enabling you to unlock creativity from anywhere in the world. With the joint effort between Adobe and AWS, applications including Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Media Encoder are no longer bound to your local desktop. Adobe Read more…
News Revamped Amazon Macie Adds ML Models, Pricing Changes By Gladys Rama 05/14/2020 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added some key changes to Macie, its machine learning-powered security tool for Amazon S3. According to an AWS blog post this week, Macie is now better-equipped to discover sensitive data thanks to Read more…
Introduction If you have deployed Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances via AWS CloudFormation, you most likely want to install software or configure the operating system of the instance. To accomplish this, you may have used cfn-init, one of the CloudFormation helper scripts available to AWS customers since February 2012. Read more…
Amazon Macie is a fully managed service that helps you discover and protect your sensitive data, using machine learning to automatically spot and classify data for you. Over time, Macie customers told us what they like, and what they didn’t. The service team has worked hard to address this feedback, and Read more…
AWS achieved Spain’s Esquema Nacional de Seguridad (ENS) High certification across 105 services in all AWS Regions. To successfully achieve the ENS High certification, BDO España conducted an independent audit and attested that AWS meets confidentiality, integrity, and availability standards. This provides assurance to Spain’s public sector organizations wanting to Read more…
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now has a new sts:RoleSessionName condition element for the AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS), that makes it easy for AWS account administrators to control the naming of individual IAM role sessions. IAM roles help you grant access to AWS services and resources by Read more…