New – Using Amazon GuardDuty to Protect Your S3 Buckets

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedNew – Using Amazon GuardDuty to Protect Your S3 Buckets As we anticipated in this post, the anomaly and threat detection for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) activities that was previously available in Amazon Macie has now been enhanced and reduced in cost by over 80% as part of Amazon GuardDuty. This expands GuardDuty threat…

What’s New with the APN Customer Engagements (ACE) Program?

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedWhat’s New with the APN Customer Engagements (ACE) Program? By Aaron Barton, Head of APN Customer Engagements We announced the APN Customer Engagements (ACE) program in 2018 to help AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners support customers and drive successful engagements on AWS. Through the ACE program, qualifying APN Partners are eligible to receive…

Introducing AWS Community Builders

By Dustin Ward

I have some exciting news that I can finally share with you. This is an announcement that I’ve been holding close for some time now. A few weeks ago AWS asked a few of us to join a new program that is focused on building cools things with AWS services. The AWS Community Builders program…

AWS CloudFormation support for AWS Service Catalog products

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS CloudFormation support for AWS Service Catalog products This blog post was updated on 7/21/2020 to reflect recent changes to how AWS Service Catalog obtains outputs from provisioned products. For more information see Provisioned product outputs are now available in AWS Service Catalog. You can use AWS Service Catalog to create preconfigured…

How KPMG Visualizes Cloud Billing Data with Amazon QuickSight

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow KPMG Visualizes Cloud Billing Data with Amazon QuickSight By Stephanie Gooch, Sr. DevOps Engineer, Enablement at KPMG Solutions and Digital The AWS Cost and Usage Report is the most granular cost report Amazon Web Services (AWS) has. It is more than 200 columns wide, and can have billions of rows for…

Building well-architected serverless applications: Controlling serverless API access – part 1

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBuilding well-architected serverless applications: Controlling serverless API access – part 1 This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the nine serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. See…