Build a scalable security practice with Azure Lighthouse and Azure Sentinel

By Dustin Ward

The Microsoft Azure Lighthouse product group is excited to launch a blog series covering areas in Azure Lighthouse where we are investing to make our service provider partners and enterprise customers successful with Azure. Our first blog in this series covers a top area of consideration for companies worldwide—Security with focus on how Azure Lighthouse…

Azure NetApp Files cross region replication and new enhancements in preview

By Dustin Ward

As businesses continue to adapt to the realities of the current environment, operational resilience has never been more important. As a result, a growing number of customers have accelerated a move to the cloud, using Microsoft Azure NetApp Files to power critical pieces of their IT infrastructure, like Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, SAP applications, and mission-critical…

Cross-account and cross-region deployment using GitHub actions and AWS CDK

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCross-account and cross-region deployment using GitHub actions and AWS CDK GitHub Actions is a feature on GitHub’s popular development platform that helps you automate your software development workflows in the same place you store code and collaborate on pull requests and issues. You can write individual tasks called actions, and combine them…

Analyzing Amazon S3 server access logs using Amazon ES

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAnalyzing Amazon S3 server access logs using Amazon ES When you use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store corporate data and host websites, you need additional logging to monitor access to your data and the performance of your application. An effective logging solution enhances security and improves the detection of…

Role-based access control using Amazon Cognito and an external identity provider

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedRole-based access control using Amazon Cognito and an external identity provider Amazon Cognito simplifies the development process by helping you manage identities for your customer-facing applications. As your application grows, some of your enterprise customers may ask you to integrate with their own Identity Provider (IdP) so that their users can sign-on…