AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer guides customers toward least privilege by providing tools to set, verify, and refine permissions. IAM Access Analyzer now extends custom policy checks to proactively detect nonconformant updates to policies that grant public access or grant access to critical AWS resources ahead of deployments. Security teams can use […]

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports passkeys for multi-factor authentication to provide easy and secure sign-ins across your devices. Based on FIDO standards, passkeys use public key cryptography, which enables strong, phishing-resistant authentication that is more secure than passwords. IAM now allows you to secure access to AWS accounts using passkeys for multi-factor […]

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS Fargate now allow you to use customer managed keys in AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to encrypt data stored in Fargate task ephemeral storage. Ephemeral storage for tasks running on Fargate platform version 1.4.0 or higher is encrypted with AWS owned keys by default. This feature allows […]

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, an OpenTelemetry (OTeL) compatible application performance monitoring (APM) feature in CloudWatch, that makes it easy to automatically instrument and track application performance against their most important business or service level objectives (SLOs) for applications on AWS. With no manual effort, no custom code, and […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Regions Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth, and up to 2x […]

Amazon CloudWatch announces the general availability of natural language query generation powered by generative AI for Logs Insights and Metrics Insights. This feature enables you to quickly generate queries in context of your logs and metrics data using plain language. By simplifying the query generation process, you can accelerate gathering insights from your observability data […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 11.22-RDS.20240509. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of PostgreSQL. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version to […]

Amazon Security Lake is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now centralize security data from AWS environments, SaaS providers, on premises, and cloud sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in your Amazon S3 account. Security Lake makes it easier to analyze security data, gain a more comprehensive understanding of security […]

AWS CloudFormation launches a new property for custom resources called ServiceTimeout. This new property allows customers to set a maximum timeout for the execution of the provisioning logic in a custom resource, enabling faster feedback loops in dev-test cycles. CloudFormation custom resources allow customers to write their own provisioning logic in CloudFormation templates and have […]