Security

As the largest cloud provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS) really has only one choice when it comes to security—and that is to approach things “holistically,” the company’s top cybersecurity executive said this week during AWS re:Invent 2021. “You don’t want to secure just one thing or one edge—or use one technique or one approach,” said Stephen Schmidt, chief information security officer at AWS, during a session at the conference in Las Vegas Thursday.UnmuteDuration 0:56/Current… Read more

I’m the CTO for a technology consulting company and this is the call I got this week: “Our entire AWS account is gone. The call center is down, we can’t log in – it’s like it never existed! How do we get it back?”… Read more

Earlier this month I met with an enterprise-scale AWS customer. They told me that they are planning to go all-in on AWS, and want to benefit from all that we have learned about setting up and running AWS at scale. In addition to setting up a Cloud Center of Excellence, they want to set up a secure environment for teams to provision development and production accounts in alignment with our recommendations and best practices.… Read more

AWS GovCloud (US) is an isolated AWS region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, helping customers support their US government compliance requirements, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High baseline requirements.… Read more