AWS News Blog
Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance
AWS Weekly Roundup: Passkey MFA, Malware Protection on Amazon S3, and more (June 17, 2024)
Last week, my alma mater Standard Bank Group (SBG) hosted a Software Engineering Conference and invited me to be one of the keynote speakers. SBG has presence throughout Africa and this hybrid conference was attended by almost 2,000 engineers from across the continent. It was amazing to reconnect with long-time friends and former colleagues, and […]
AWS Audit Manager extends generative AI best practices framework to Amazon SageMaker
Gain comprehensive visibility with the AWS Audit Manager generative AI best practices framework v2, which now includes Amazon SageMaker.
Introducing Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3
Amazon GuardDuty expands malware scanning to secure S3 uploads, enabling continuous monitoring and isolation of malicious files without infrastructure overhead.
IAM Access Analyzer Update: Extending custom policy checks & guided revocation
New custom policy checks for critical resources, public access detection, and guided revocation to remove unused permissions – proactively securing AWS environments with tailored analysis and actionable insights.
AWS adds passkey multi-factor authentication (MFA) for root and IAM users
Fortify your AWS account security with new passkey MFA and mandatory root user MFA. Experience seamless authentication while bolstering protection against unauthorized access.
AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Heroes, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Q and more (June 10, 2024)
In the last AWS Weekly Roundup, Channy reminded us on how life has ups and downs. It’s just how life is. But, that doesn’t mean that we should do it alone. Farouq Mousa, AWS Community Builder, is fighting brain cancer and Allen Helton, AWS Serverless Hero, his daughter is fighting leukemia. If you have a […]
Simplify risk and compliance assessments with the new common control library in AWS Audit Manager
Map enterprise controls to AWS data sources effortlessly with predefined, pre-mapped controls based on auditor reviews. Automatically inherit improvements as Audit Manager updates.
Simplify custom contact center insights with Amazon Connect analytics data lake
Amazon Connect’s analytics data lake centralizes customer data for powerful performance analysis without complex pipelines.