Author: Craig Liebendorfer

Join us in San Francisco at the AWS Pop-up Loft for AWS IAM Day on Monday, October 9, from 9:30 A.M.–4:15 P.M. Pacific Time. At this free technical event, you will learn AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) concepts from IAM product managers, as well as tools and strategies you can use for controlling access to your AWS […]

Amazon Cognito User Pools now integrates with Amazon Pinpoint to provide analytics for user pools and to enrich the user data for Amazon Pinpoint campaigns. Amazon Cognito User Pools provides user directories that make it easy to add sign-up and sign-in to your mobile or web application. Amazon Pinpoint provides analytics and targeted campaigns to drive […]

You can help to protect your data in a number of ways while it is in transit and at rest, such as by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or client-side encryption. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to create, control, rotate, and use your encryption keys. AWS […]

Over the years, we have seen tremendous growth in the use of the AWS Cloud for healthcare applications. Our customers and AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners who offer solutions that store, process, and transmit Protected Health Information (PHI) sign a Business Associate Addendum (BAA) with AWS. As part of the AWS HIPAA compliance program, customers and […]

As of May 15, 2017, you can define AWS Identity and Access Management policies to control which Auto Scaling resources users can access and the actions users are permitted to perform on those resources. Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and allows you to scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down automatically according to conditions you […]

You can now use Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) to exchange sensitive data between applications using server-side encryption (SSE). SQS is a fully managed message queuing service for reliably communicating between distributed software components and microservices at any scale. You can use SQS to take advantage of the scale, cost, and operational benefits of a […]

Amazon QuickSight democratizes business intelligence, making it easier and cheaper for you to provide advanced business analytics capabilities to everyone in your organization. Amazon QuickSight also enables you to understand your business better and helps you make data-driven decisions more quickly. However, determining who has access to which data in your organization can still be […]

Hardware multi-factor authentication (MFA) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region to help strengthen data security while giving you control over token keys that have access to your data. MFA is a best practice that adds an extra layer of protection on top of users’ user names and passwords. These token keys that […]

Starting today, Amazon RDS enables you to use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage database access for Amazon RDS for MySQL database instances and Amazon Aurora database clusters. By using IAM, you can manage user access to all AWS resources from a single location, without needing to manage users in the database. This includes expanding […]

Update: This webinar is now available as an on-demand video and slide deck. As part of the AWS Monthly Online Tech Talks series, AWS will present Applying AWS Organizations to Complex Account Structures on Thursday, April 27. This tech talk will start at 10:30 A.M. and end at 11:30 A.M. Pacific Time. AWS Principal Product Manager Anders Samuelsson […]