Zurich Spain: Managing millions of documents with AWS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedZurich Spain: Managing millions of documents with AWS This post was cowritten with Oscar Gali, Head of Technology and Architecture for GI in Zurich, Spain About Zurich Spain Zurich Spain is part of Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich), known for its financial soundness and solvency. With more than 135 years of history and over 2,000…

Over 40 services require TLS 1.2 minimum for AWS FIPS endpoints

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedOver 40 services require TLS 1.2 minimum for AWS FIPS endpoints In a March 2020 blog post, we told you about work Amazon Web Services (AWS) was undertaking to update all of our AWS Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) endpoints to a minimum of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 across all AWS Regions. Today,…

Configuring Grafana Cloud Agent for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedConfiguring Grafana Cloud Agent for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus This post was written by Robert Fratto, Imaya Kumar Jagannathan, and Alolita Sharma. The Grafana Cloud Agent is a lightweight alternative to running a full Prometheus server. It keeps the necessary parts for discovering and scraping Prometheus exporters and sending metrics to the backend,…

Best practices for creating and managing sandbox accounts in AWS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBest practices for creating and managing sandbox accounts in AWS Organizations use multiple environments, each with different security and compliance controls, as part of their deployment pipeline. Following the principle of least privilege, production environments have the most restrictive security and compliance controls. They tightly limit who can access the environment and which actions…