AWS Is How Financial Services Builds On

By Dustin Ward

AWS provides financial services institutions across banking, payments, capital markets, and insurance with the secure, resilient global cloud infrastructure and services they need to differentiate themselves today and adapt to the needs of tomorrow. Through continuous innovation, AWS delivers the most stringent security requirements in the world, the greatest breadth and depth of services, deep…

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.