Author: Craig Liebendorfer

Reserved seating is new to re:Invent this year and is now open! Some important things you should know about reserved seating: All sessions have a predetermined number of seats available and must be reserved ahead of time. If a session is full, you can join a waitlist. Waitlisted attendees will receive a seat in the […]

September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. AWS re:Invent 2016 begins November 28, and now, the live session catalog includes 32 security and compliance sessions. 19 of these sessions are in the Security & Compliance track and 13 are in the re:Source Mini Con for Security Services. […]

In case you missed any AWS Security Blog posts from June, July, and August, they are summarized and linked to below. The posts are shown in reverse chronological order (most recent first), and the subject matter ranges from a tagging limit increase to recording SSH sessions established through a bastion host. August August 16: Updated […]

Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) now allows you to specify an IAM role that can be used by the containers in an ECS task, as a new AWS Compute Blog post explains. When an application makes use of the AWS SDK or CLI to make requests to the AWS API, it must sign each request with valid AWS access […]

On the AWS Blog yesterday, Jeff Barr published a new security-related blog post written by AWS Principal Security Engineer Eric Fitzgerald. Here’s the beginning of the post, which is entitled, Scale Your Security Vulnerability Testing with Amazon Inspector: “At AWS re:Invent 2015 we announced Amazon Inspector, our security vulnerability assessment service that helps customers test for […]

The following 10 posts are the most viewed AWS Security Blog posts that we published during the first six months of this year. 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. How to Set Up DNS Resolution […]

    Are you looking for up-to-date info about re:Invent? Check out the AWS event page: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ Are you looking for Security Blog coverage of re:Invent? Use this tag to see our most recent posts: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/tag/reinvent           Updated December 2, 2016: We will publish a blog post the week of December […]

Today, we launched a new Twitter handle: @AWSSecurityInfo. The purpose of this new handle is to share security bulletins, security whitepapers, compliance news and information, and other AWS security-related and compliance-related information. The scope of this handle is broader than that of @AWSIdentity, which focuses primarily on Security Blog posts. However, feel free to follow both handles! […]

Updated June 23, 2016: Registration is now open! ————– AWS re:Invent 2016 will take place November 28–December 2, 2016, in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Start planning now to attend the world’s largest global cloud computing conference. We have designed re:Invent 2016 to give you increased opportunities to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS solutions. This year, we […]

In case you missed any of the AWS Security Blog posts from March and April, they are summarized and linked to below. The posts are shown in reverse chronological order (most recent first), and the subject matter ranges from the AWS Config Rules repository to automatically updating AWS WAF IP blacklists. April April 28, AWS […]