Amazon QuickSight deployment models for cross-account and cross-Region access to Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAmazon QuickSight deployment models for cross-account and cross-Region access to Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS Many AWS customers use multiple AWS accounts and Regions across different departments and applications within the same company. However, you might deploy services like Amazon QuickSight using a single-account approach to centralize users, data source access, and dashboard management. This post…

Validate IAM policies in CloudFormation templates using IAM Access Analyzer

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedValidate IAM policies in CloudFormation templates using IAM Access Analyzer In this blog post, I introduce IAM Policy Validator for AWS CloudFormation (cfn-policy-validator), an open source tool that extracts AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies from an AWS CloudFormation template, and allows you to run existing IAM Access Analyzer policy validation APIs against…

Advancing reliability through a resilient cloud supply chain

By Dustin Ward

“My Advancing Reliability series has explored many initiatives we’ve put in place to improve the reliability of the Azure platform. Today, I’d like to explore our cloud supply chain, as a resilient hardware infrastructure is critical to provide reliable capacity to our customers reliably. Our supply chain is hard at work to deliver that infrastructure…