Securing access to EMR clusters using AWS Systems Manager

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedSecuring access to EMR clusters using AWS Systems Manager Organizations need to secure infrastructure when enabling access to engineers to build applications. Opening SSH inbound ports on instances to enable engineer access introduces the risk of a malicious entity running unauthorized commands. Using a Bastion host or jump server is a common…

Introducing message archiving and analytics for Amazon SNS

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedIntroducing message archiving and analytics for Amazon SNS This blog post is courtesy of Sebastian Caceres (AWS Consultant, DevOps), Otavio Ferreira (Sr. Manager, Amazon SNS), Prachi Sharma and Mary Gao (Software Engineers, Amazon SNS). Today, we are announcing the release of a message delivery protocol for Amazon SNS based on Amazon Kinesis…

How to approach threat modeling

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to approach threat modeling In this post, I’ll provide my tips on how to integrate threat modeling into your organization’s application development lifecycle. There are many great guides on how to perform the procedural parts of threat modeling, and I’ll briefly touch on these and their methodologies. However, the main aim…

The CDK Patterns open source journey

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedThe CDK Patterns open source journey This post was contributed by Matthew Coulter, Technical Architect at Liberty Mutual. In the summer of 2019, I successfully applied for a promotion to the position of account architect at Liberty IT Solutions, a part of Liberty Mutual Group. This changed everything, as I went from…

AWS Announces the global expansion of AWS CCI Solutions

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS Announces the global expansion of AWS CCI Solutions We’re excited to announce the global availability of AWS Contact Center Intelligence (AWS CCI) solutions powered by AWS AI Services and made available through the AWS Partner Network. AWS CCI solutions enable you to leverage AWS machine learning (ML) capabilities with your current…