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The Most Viewed AWS Security Blog Posts in 2016

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The following 10 posts were the most viewed AWS Security Blog posts that we published during 2016. You can use this list as a guide to catch up on your blog reading or even read a post again that you found particularly useful.

  1. How to Set Up DNS Resolution Between On-Premises Networks and AWS Using AWS Directory Service and Amazon Route 53
  2. How to Control Access to Your Amazon Elasticsearch Service Domain
  3. How to Restrict Amazon S3 Bucket Access to a Specific IAM Role
  4. Announcing AWS Organizations: Centrally Manage Multiple AWS Accounts
  5. How to Configure Rate-Based Blacklisting with AWS WAF and AWS Lambda
  6. How to Use AWS WAF to Block IP Addresses That Generate Bad Requests
  7. How to Record SSH Sessions Established Through a Bastion Host
  8. How to Manage Secrets for Amazon EC2 Container Service–Based Applications by Using Amazon S3 and Docker
  9. Announcing Industry Best Practices for Securing AWS Resources
  10. How to Set Up DNS Resolution Between On-Premises Networks and AWS Using AWS Directory Service and Microsoft Active Directory

The following 10 posts published since the blog’s inception in April 2013 were the most viewed AWS Security Blog posts in 2016.

  1. Writing IAM Policies: How to Grant Access to an Amazon S3 Bucket
  2. Securely Connect to Linux Instances Running in a Private Amazon VPC
  3. A New and Standardized Way to Manage Credentials in the AWS SDKs
  4. Where’s My Secret Access Key?
  5. Enabling Federation to AWS Using Windows Active Directory, ADFS, and SAML 2.0
  6. IAM Policies and Bucket Policies and ACLs! Oh, My! (Controlling Access to S3 Resources)
  7. How to Connect Your On-Premises Active Directory to AWS Using AD Connector
  8. Writing IAM Policies: Grant Access to User-Specific Folders in an Amazon S3 Bucket
  9. How to Help Prepare for DDoS Attacks by Reducing Your Attack Surface
  10. How to Set Up DNS Resolution Between On-Premises Networks and AWS Using AWS Directory Service and Amazon Route 53

Let us know in the comments section below if there is a specific security or compliance topic you would like us to cover on the Security Blog in 2017.

– Craig