AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog
Category: Security
Announcing the Security Competency for APN Consulting Partners
Recognizing APN Consulting Partners who provide deep technical and consulting expertise helping enterprises adopt, develop, and deploy complex security projects. Security is the top priority at AWS. Under the AWS shared responsibility model, AWS provides a global secure infrastructure and foundation compute, storage, networking and database services, as well as higher level services. While AWS […]
Generating Custom AWS CloudFormation Templates with Lambda to Create Cross-Account Roles
Ian Scofield is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS. In a previous post in our series, we showed how to use an AWS CloudFormation launch stack URL to help customers create a cross-account role in their AWS account. As mentioned in an earlier APN Blog post, a cross-account role is the recommended method to […]
Shift Security Left through DevSecOps
Fusing application development with integrated, automated security processes By Christian Lachaux, AABG Security Lead, Accenture; Federico Tandeter, Cloud Security Offering Development Lead, Accenture. Accenture is a Premier APN Consulting Partner and AWS MSP who holds a number of AWS Competencies, including Migration. Development+Security+Operations, better known as DevSecOps, is revolutionizing application development by integrating automated security […]
Partner SA Roundup – March 2017
For this month’s Partner SA roundup, AWS Partner SAs Pratap Ramamurthy, Juan Villa, and Scott Ward discuss three APN Technology Partners: SoftNAS, Threat Stack, and Zscaler. Let’s dive in! SoftNAS, by Juan Villa Deploying and managing high performance and highly available NAS/SAN solutions can be difficult and error prone. SoftNAS, an APN Advanced Technology and […]
GxP on AWS
By Chris Whalley. Chris is a Security Assurance TPM at AWS. GxP (Good [anything] Practices) is an acronym that refers to the regulations and guidelines applicable to life sciences organizations that make food and medical products such as drugs, medical devices, and medical software applications. The term GxP encompasses a broad range of compliance-related activities […]
Easing the Creation of Cross-Account Roles for Customers
By Erin McGill, Partner Solutions Architect – AWS AWS Partners frequently ask me about the most secure way to access resources in a customer account. While this is possible using keys – secrets that are hard to manage, rotate, and ideally, should never be shared. We recommend that AWS Partners use a more secure method: […]
Have You Read Our 2016 AWS Partner Solutions Architect Guest Posts?
In 2016, we hosted 38 guest posts from AWS Partner Solutions Architects (SAs), who work very closely with both Consulting and Technology Partners as they build solutions on AWS. As we kick off 2017, I want to take a look back at all of the fantastic content created by our SAs. A few key themes emerged […]
What’s New – APN Marketing Central – September 2016
The following is a guest post from Annabelle Anderson on the AWS Partner Marketing team. Regardless of if you’re looking to run a multi-channel marketing campaign or only need a few assets to enhance an existing campaign, APN Marketing Central can help you co-market your solutions on AWS. Available in the APN Portal for Standard-tier and […]
Upcoming AWS Partner Webinars – September & October
We have 10 upcoming AWS Partner Webinars featuring a select number of AWS Partners. These webinars feature technical sessions led by AWS solutions architects and engineers, live demonstrations, customer examples, and Q&A with AWS experts. Upcoming Webinars Seamless Visibility and Detection for the Cloud September 20th, 2016 | 10:00 – 11:00 AM PST Organizations need to apply security […]
New AWS Security Competency Partner Solution: Sophos Outbound Gateway
The following is a guest post from our friends at AWS Security Competency Partner Sophos. Fun fact: Sophos is one of the first APN Partners to be featured on “This Is My Architecture”, a new video series that highlights innovative AWS architectural solutions. Check out the Sophos video: Many of our more security conscious customers in AWS consider […]