Category: Security

By Erin McGill. Erin is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA).  APN 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 APN Partners use a […]

In my previous post on securing REST APIs with Auth0, you learnt the basics of token-based authentication using JWT tokens, configured the Auth0 portal by registering a client, a resource (API) server and created a Auth0 rule to add scopes to the JWT token. In this post, you will create 2 RESTful APIs using Amazon […]

Aravind Kodandaramaiah is an AWS Partner Solutions Architect (SA) who works closely with Global Systems Integrators (GSIs). It’s fairly common for customers to host backend REST APIs for their mobile, web, and enterprise applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). In order to host such REST APIs, you need to think about infrastructure, authorization, monitoring, traffic […]

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 […]

APN Partners, are you joining us at the AWS Global Partner Summit at re:Invent? If you’ve not yet registered to attend the Summit, it’s not too late! Log into the re:Invent portal, and click on “Purchase Registration Items” to add Global Partner Summit to your registration. Adding the Global Partner Summit is free of charge. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

We have four 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   Intro to CloudPassage’s Automatic Security Scaling August 24, 2016 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM PST CloudPassage® Halo® provides virtually […]

Information security is deeply important to our customers and partner ecosystem. AWS Security Fundamentals is a free, online course that introduces you to fundamental cloud computing and AWS security concepts, including AWS access control and management, governance, logging, and encryption methods. It also addresses security-related compliance protocols, risk management strategies, and procedures for auditing AWS […]