Now customers can use EC2 Image Builder to create custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are hardened using Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks. EC2 Image Builder hosts CIS Benchmarks Level 1 for Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2019, and Microsoft Windows Server 2022. You no longer have […]

On January 17, 2023 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 19.0.2, 17.0.6, 11.0.18, 8u362 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Read More for the details.

Amazon EC2 network performance metrics now supports a new metric to monitor available EC2 instance tracked connections, the ConnTrack Utilization metric. EC2 instance Security Groups act as stateful virtual firewalls to control incoming and outgoing traffic. These stateful firewalls track network connection information to enable return traffic to and from an instance to pass through. […]

AWS Network Firewall now supports IPv6 for dual stack subnets so you can filter IPv4 and IPv6 traffic flows to and from the public internet, on-premises network, or any endpoint in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Now, you can use AWS Network Firewall to protect your IPv6 workloads on AWS. Read More for the […]

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has increased the maximum number of Access Points per file system from 120 to 1,000, enabling you to control file system access permissions across a larger number of applications in multi-tenant environments. Read More for the details.

Amazon CloudWatch now provides enhanced visibility into errors in Embedded Metric Format (EMF), with two new error metrics (EMFValidationErrors & EMFParsingErrors).  Read More for the details.

Today, we released two new AWS managed policies for Amazon Detective. AWS managed policies make it easier for users to gain the proper level of permissions to leverage the service for security investigations. AWS managed policies are maintained by AWS to reduce work for customers in managing access permissions for users in specific job roles. […]

AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate Operations Plan is now available in Cape Town region. AMS helps you operate AWS efficiently and securely. It provides proactive, preventative, and detective capabilities that raise the operational bar and help reduce risk without constraining agility, allowing you to focus on innovation. AMS extends your team with operational capabilities including […]

Now deploy patch policies across AWS accounts and AWS Regions using AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager and AWS Organizations. Read More for the details.