Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

Security is “job zero” at AWS. It’s crucial to gain deeper insights into your AWS infrastructure’s security posture to respond quickly to threats. The ability to centrally monitor and visualize the security findings make it easier for you to identify any security threats or gaps and also keep the principle of least privilege in focus. […]

As organizations increasingly adopt cloud services, they often face the challenge of hosting diverse workloads with varying cost structures and budget constraints. To establish a solid foundation for cost optimization without compromising operational efficiency in your cloud operations, it’s essential to manage your cloud expenses efficiently. This aligns with the AWS Well-Architected Cost Optimization pillar, […]

AWS Organizations provides capabilities for AWS customers to centrally manage accounts in their multi-account environment. As the business landscape evolves, customers may need to close multiple AWS accounts or an entire organization. This could take place during mergers and acquisitions, to support cleanup efforts which reduce cost from unused resources, or decommissioning a venture or […]

Customers often spend time finding and managing individual resources within their applications. They need to find various applications, manage and perform application tasks, and monitor resources during different stages of the application lifecycle. Customers usually have hundreds to thousands of resources within even a single AWS account. This requires navigating across multiple AWS services pages […]

AWS Config is a fully managed service that provides customers with resource inventory, configuration monitoring, and configuration change notifications to support security, governance, and compliance for workloads in AWS. An AWS Config rule represents desired configurations for a resource and evaluates changes in near real-time and records the compliance history in AWS Config. Using AWS […]

Customers use chat collaboration applications like Microsoft Teams and Slack to collaborate and manage their AWS applications. AWS Chatbot is a ChatOps service that enables customers to monitor, troubleshoot issues, and manage AWS applications from chat channels. AWS Chatbot provides autonomy and customizability to DevOps teams operating their AWS environments on the go from chat […]

Detecting security risks and investigating the corresponding findings is essential for protecting your AWS environment from potential threats, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data and resources for your business needs. AWS provides a range of governance and security services such as AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, and AWS Config along with many others, […]

AWS Service Catalog (Service Catalog) is a powerful tool that empowers organizations to manage and govern approved services and resources. It significantly benefits platform engineering by standardizing environments, accelerating service delivery, and enhancing security. With its automated provisioning and resource management, Service Catalog supports infrastructure as code, enabling scalable, reliable deployments. Platform engineering teams are […]

Customers in highly regulated industries, such as Financial Services or Healthcare and Life Sciences, often need to audit every action made in environments with sensitive data. Regulations like HIPAA or FFIEC, and industry frameworks like the PCI DSS, require granular log entries that record user and administrative actions within an environment containing sensitive data, and […]

In today’s digital landscape, customers have complex and distributed workloads running on AWS, involving a large number of AWS resources across multiple services. Tackling security risks across numerous resources can seem daunting, but with the right approach following best practices, can be addressed in a timely manner. AWS offers tools and services designed to help […]