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Top 10 Security Blog posts in 2019 so far

September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details.

Twice a year, we like to share what’s been popular to let you know what everyone’s reading and so you don’t miss something interesting.

One of the top posts so far this year has been the registration announcement for the re:Inforce conference that happened last week. We hope you attended or watched the keynote live stream. Because the conference is now over, we omitted this from the list.

As always, let us know what you want to read about in the Comments section below – we read them all and appreciate the feedback.

The top 10 posts from 2019 based on page views

  1. How to automate SAML federation to multiple AWS accounts from Microsoft Azure Active Directory
  2. How to centralize and automate IAM policy creation in sandbox, development, and test environments
  3. AWS awarded PROTECTED certification in Australia
  4. Setting permissions to enable accounts for upcoming AWS Regions
  5. How to use service control policies to set permission guardrails across accounts in your AWS Organization
  6. Alerting, monitoring, and reporting for PCI-DSS awareness with Amazon Elasticsearch Service and AWS Lambda
  7. Updated whitepaper now available: Aligning to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework in the AWS Cloud
  8. How to visualize Amazon GuardDuty findings: serverless edition
  9. Guidelines for protecting your AWS account while using programmatic access
  10. How to quickly find and update your access keys, password, and MFA setting using the AWS Management Console

If you’re new to AWS and are just discovering the Security Blog, we’ve also compiled a list of older posts that customers continue to find useful.

The top 10 posts of all time based on page views

  1. Where’s My Secret Access Key?
  2. Writing IAM Policies: How to Grant Access to an Amazon S3 Bucket
  3. How to Restrict Amazon S3 Bucket Access to a Specific IAM Role
  4. Securely Connect to Linux Instances Running in a Private Amazon VPC
  5. Writing IAM Policies: Grant Access to User-Specific Folders in an Amazon S3 Bucket
  6. Setting the Record Straight on Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Erroneous Article
  7. How to Connect Your On-Premises Active Directory to AWS Using AD Connector
  8. IAM Policies and Bucket Policies and ACLs! Oh, My! (Controlling Access to S3 Resources)
  9. A New and Standardized Way to Manage Credentials in the AWS SDKs
  10. How to Control Access to Your Amazon Elasticsearch Service Domain

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Tom Olsen

Tom shares responsibility for the AWS Security Blog with Becca Crockett. If you’ve got feedback about the blog, he wants to hear it in the Comments here or in any post. In his free time, you’ll either find him hanging out with his wife and their frog, in his woodshop, or skateboarding.

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Becca Crockett

Becca co-manages the Security Blog with Tom Olsen. She enjoys guiding first-time blog contributors through the writing process, and she likes to interview people. In her free time, she drinks a lot of coffee and reads things. At work, she also drinks a lot of coffee and reads things.