AWS FeedField Notes: Cross-account deployments in an AWS Control Tower environment AWS Control Tower helps customers put an orchestration layer on top of a multi-account strategy. When customers build applications, they often use separate accounts as part of a deployment pipeline so that they can validate changes before production. This best practice helps reduce blast…
AWS FeedIAM makes it easier for you to manage permissions for AWS services accessing your resources Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers are storing an unprecedented amount of data on AWS for a range of use cases, including data lakes and analytics, machine learning, and enterprise applications. Customers secure their data by implementing data security controls…
AWS FeedEffective data lakes using AWS Lake Formation, Part 3: Using ACID transactions on governed tables Data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) have become the default repository for all enterprise data and serve as common choice for a large number of users querying from a variety of analytics and ML tools. Often times you…
AWS FeedAWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now makes it easier for you to manage permissions for AWS services accessing your resources AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports policy conditions to help manage permissions for AWS services that access your resources. Many AWS services require access to your internal resources to perform tasks, and…
AWS FeedIAM 10th Anniversary: Top Recommendations for Working with IAM from Our AWS Heroes – Part 1 By Rowan Udell, Principal Solutions Architect – Stax If you have used Amazon Web Services (AWS), then you have used AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Not only does IAM grant secure access to what you and your…
AWS FeedCreating a custom Lambda authorizer using Open Policy Agent Organizations have complex infrastructure and need common tooling to make decisions about the system as a whole. In such scenarios, policy-based decision making could be implemented using Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPA is an open source, general-purpose policy engine, which decouples policy decision-making from policy…