Build production-ready applications without infrastructure complexity using Amazon ECS Express Mode

By Dustin Ward

Deploying containerized applications to production requires navigating hundreds of configuration parameters across load balancers, auto scaling policies, networking, and security groups. This overhead delays time to market and diverts focus from core application development. Today, I’m excited to announce Amazon ECS Express Mode, a new capability from Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) that helps…

Introducing VPC encryption controls: Enforce encryption in transit within and across VPCs in a Region

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing virtual private cloud (VPC) encryption controls, a new capability of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) that helps you audit and enforce encryption in transit for all traffic within and across VPCs in a Region. Organizations across financial services, healthcare, government, and retail face significant operational complexity in maintaining encryption compliance across…

Introducing attribute-based access control for Amazon S3 general purpose buckets

By Dustin Ward

As organizations scale, managing access permissions for storage resources becomes increasingly complex and time-consuming. As new team members join, existing staff changes roles, and new S3 buckets are created, organizations must constantly update multiple types of access policies to govern access across their S3 buckets. This challenge is especially pronounced in multi-tenant S3 environments where…

Simplify access to external services using AWS IAM Outbound Identity Federation

By Dustin Ward

When building applications that span multiple cloud providers or integrate with external services, developers face a persistent challenge: managing credentials securely. Traditional approaches require storing long-term credentials like API keys and passwords, creating security risks and operational overhead. Today, we’re announcing a new capability called AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) outbound identity federation that customers…

Accelerate workflow development with enhanced local testing in AWS Step Functions

By Dustin Ward

Today, I’m excited to announce enhanced local testing capabilities for AWS Step Functions through the TestState API, our testing API. These enhancements are available through the API, so you can build automated test suites that validate your workflow definitions locally on your development machines, test error handling patterns, data transformations, and mock service integrations using…