Category: Foundational (100)

Does your organization have custom configuration requirements for your resources? Do you find it challenging to compare actual resource configuration settings against your configuration requirements? Today, you can leverage a new public repository of sample AWS Config custom rules using AWS CloudFormation Guard to help you address these challenges. AWS Config allows you to evaluate actual […]

A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code secure150off to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last. AWS re:Inforce is just around the corner and this post covers sessions on cloud governance, risk management, and compliance that you should add to your agenda. AWS re:Inforce is a security learning conference […]

In this blog, we will discuss the strategies employed by cloud-mature enterprises, examine key pillars of cloud maturity, and contrast how mature and aspiring enterprises operate in these areas. You will leave here being able to answer this question, “What does a mature cloud organization look like?” The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a change in the […]

Full-stack observability at AWS includes AWS-native, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and open-source solutions, giving you the ability to understand what is happening across your technology stack at any time. AWS Observability lets you collect, correlate, aggregate, and analyze telemetry in your network, infrastructure, and applications in the cloud, hybrid, or on-premises environments so you can gain […]

Does your organization need to maintain visibility into operations in their AWS accounts for security and compliance? Do you need this visibility across multiple AWS accounts and geographic regions? Would you like predefined templates to help you get started with analyzing account activity quickly? Using AWS CloudTrail Lake and our newly announced public repository of […]

This blog post covers best practices to manage and reverse technical debt by prudently leveraging and operating cloud services. Technical debt is a metaphor coined by Ward Cunningham, to deal with the cost of making tradeoffs in software development to meet near-term business needs. In the case of financial debt, you take a loan to […]

Are you responsible for your organization’s compliance? Do you want to simplify and automate audit activities? Do you want to make sure your organization is compliant with internal control frameworks and industry standards? If you need to simplify your risk and compliance assessments while automating evidence collection in your AWS cloud environment, then getting started […]

The AWS pay-as-you-go model is ideal for customers looking to optimize their infrastructure costs in the cloud. A simple way to achieve significant savings is to stop Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances when they aren’t being used, for example, outside of business hours. This approach can reduce EC2 instances utilization and reduce the […]

Today, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus announces support for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint policies. With VPC endpoint policy support, customers can now further control access to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus through restricting user access or allowable actions. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that monitors and alarms on […]

Today, we’re excited to announce a new search feature that allows customers to perform targeted searches by multiple criteria, group the results and send the data to an assessment report. Customers can more easily find the evidence they need and, organize it without the need to add it to a report. Customers can then generate their […]