AWS Security Blog

Tag: reInvent

Learn About the Rest of the Security and Compliance Track Sessions Being Offered at re:Invent 2015

Previously, I mentioned that the re:Invent 2015 Security & Compliance track sessions had been announced, and I also discussed the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) sessions that will be offered as part of the Security & Compliance track. Today, I will highlight the remainder of the sessions that will be presented as part of the […]

re:Invent 2015: All Security and Compliance Track Breakout Sessions

If you will be attending re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas next month, you know that you’ll have many opportunities to learn more about AWS security at the conference. The following breakout sessions compose this year’s Security and Compliance track. Look for blog posts in the coming three weeks to highlight some of these specific breakout sessions […]

AWS re:Invent 2015 Registration Is Now Open

Registration is now open for the fourth annual AWS re:Invent conference—the largest gathering of the global cloud computing community. Join us for more than 250 technical sessions, hands-on bootcamps, certification exams, self-paced labs, hackathons, and exciting after-hours events. Date: October 6–9, 2015 Location: The Venetian, Las Vegas Full conference pass: $1,299 Register now: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ Top […]

Enabling Federation to AWS Using Windows Active Directory, ADFS, and SAML 2.0

Update from September 7, 2022: This post had been updated to correct the reference to the CloudFormation template. Update from January 17, 2018: The techniques demonstrated in this blog post relate to traditional SAML federation for AWS. These techniques are still valid and useful. However, AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) provides analogous capabilities by way of […]

Recap of re:Invent 2013 Sessions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) held its second annual users conference, re:Invent 2013,  in Las Vegas on November 13th-15th.  Security was again one of the top tracks of the program, with 22 sessions covering every area in cloud security.  Re:Invent 2013 was a great success. Here are links to the videos and presentations all the security related […]

Three Data-at-Rest Encryption Announcements

We’re excited to make three announcements around encryption of data at rest in AWS: We’ve published a new whitepaper: Securing Data at Rest with Encryption, which describes the various options for encrypting data at rest in AWS. It describes these options in terms of where encryption keys are stored and how access to those keys […]