Implementing Amazon Inspector in Automated AMI Pipelines

By Dustin Ward

This is part two of a two part series on Amazon Inspector. This article is about implementing Amazon Inspector in automated AMI pipelines. The first article is an Introduction to Amazon Inspector.Automated security scanning is an essential part of DevSecOps, however setting the scanning up can be cumbersome. This quickstart incorporates Amazon Inspector and helps…

Deploy, track, and roll back RDS database code changes using open source tools Liquibase and Jenkins

By Dustin Ward

Customers across industries and verticals deal with relational database code deployment. In most cases, developers rely on database administrators (DBAs) to perform the database code deployment. This works well when the number of databases and the amount of database code changes are low. As organizations scale, however, they deal with different database engines—including Oracle, SQL…

AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard now available in Security Hub

By Dustin Ward

AWS Security Hub offers a new security standard, AWS Foundational Security Best Practices This week AWS Security Hub launched a new security standard called AWS Foundational Security Best Practices. This standard implements security controls that detect when your AWS accounts and deployed resources do not align with the security best practices defined by AWS security…

Get Your Business Off The Ground with the AWS Serverless-First Function

By Dustin Ward

Guest post by Ragi Mahil, Principal PMM for Serverless, AWS Have you been looking at ways to refactor your application with the least amount of time and development effort? Or are you thinking about modernizing your technology to scale faster after having just secured your round of VC Funding? A serverless-first approach could be your…

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports User Authentication with external Microsoft Active Directory

By Dustin Ward

Earlier this year, we launched support for Aurora PostgreSQL user authentication with Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory. In the original release, this support was based on AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory. We have now added support for user authentication using external Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directories, including those running on premises.

Getting Started with Ultra-Low Latency Using AWS Elemental Live – Part 2

By Dustin Ward

The AWS Elemental Live encoder version 2.17.3 now supports chunk delivery to AWS Elemental MediaStore enabling a stable user experience of 3-4 seconds glass-to-glass latency using standard HLS/DASH packaged content and delivered through traditional CDNs. This blog post, the final of a two-part series, provides a step-by-step guide to building an ultra-low latency (ULL) workflow…