Private Access to the AWS Management Console is generally available

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Management Console Private Access. Private Access is a new security feature that allows customers to limit access to the AWS Management Console from their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) or connected networks to a set of trusted AWS accounts and organizations. Source: AWS

Amazon CloudFront announces one-click security protections

You can now secure your web applications and APIs with AWS WAF with a single click in the Amazon CloudFront console. CloudFront can create and configure out-of-the-box AWS WAF protection for your application as a first line of defense against common web threats. Optionally, you can later configure additional security protections against bots and fraud […]

AWS Lambda now supports AWS X-Ray tracing for SnapStart-enabled functions

You can now use AWS X-Ray to trace and analyze your Lambda functions enabled with Lambda SnapStart. You can use X-Ray traces to gain deeper visibility into your function’s performance and execution lifecycle, helping you identify errors and performance bottlenecks for your latency-sensitive Java applications built using SnapStart-enabled functions. Source: AWS

AWS announces new AWS Direct in Atlanta Georgia

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the QTS Atlanta DC1 data center in Atlanta, Georgia. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Source: AWS

Amazon SNS now supports faster automatic deletion of unconfirmed subscriptions

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports automatic deletion of unconfirmed subscriptions once they have been in a pending confirmation state for 48 hours. This reduces the time to delete your unconfirmed subscriptions from the previous 72 hour period. This applies to all new subscriptions and does not require any on-boarding. Source: AWS

Behave Yourself!

A lot of my clients want to talk to me about behavioral biometrics. “What is it?”, “Does it really work?”, “Is it worth the investment?” Whilst I’m not keeping strict count, there has definitely been an uptick in the number of client inquiry calls on this topic over the last year or so.  I see […]