Architecting for database encryption on AWS

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedArchitecting for database encryption on AWS In this post, I review the options you have to protect your customer data when migrating or building new databases in Amazon Web Services (AWS). I focus on how you can support sensitive workloads in ways that help you maintain compliance and regulatory obligations, and meet…

Cyber Security Awareness: A Critical Checklist

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCyber Security Awareness: A Critical Checklist October 2020 marks the 17th year of National CyberSecurity Awareness Month, where users and organizations are encouraged to double their efforts to be aware of cybersecurity issues in all their digital dealings—and to take concrete steps to increase their privacy and security as necessary. The Cybersecurity…

New – Redis 6 Compatibility for Amazon ElastiCache

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedNew – Redis 6 Compatibility for Amazon ElastiCache After the last Redis 5.0 compatibility for Amazon ElastiCache, there has been lots of improvements to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis including upstream supports such as 5.0.6. Earlier this year, we announced Global Datastore for Redis that lets you replicate a cluster in one region…

Federating Amazon Redshift access from OneLogin

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedFederating Amazon Redshift access from OneLogin You can use federation to access AWS accounts using credentials from a corporate directory, utilizing open standards such as SAML, to exchange identity and security information between an identity provider (IdP) and an application. With this integration, you manage user identities to AWS resources centrally in…