AWS Weekly Roundup: re:Inforce re:Cap, Valkey GLIDE 2.0, Avro and Protobuf or MCP Servers on Lambda, and more (June 23, 2025)

By Dustin Ward

Last week’s hallmark event was the security-focused AWS re:Inforce conference. Now a tradition, the blog team wrote a re:Cap post to summarize the announcements and link to some of the top blog posts. To further summarize, several new security innovations were announced, including enhanced IAM Access Analyzer capabilities, MFA enforcement for root users, and threat…

AWS re:Inforce roundup 2025: top announcements

By Dustin Ward

At AWS re:Inforce 2025 (June 16-18, Philadelphia), AWS Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer Amy Herzog delivered the keynote address, announcing new security innovations. Throughout the event, AWS announced additional security capabilities focused on simplifying security at scale and enabling organizations to build more resilient applications in the cloud. Below is a comprehensive roundup…

Amazon GuardDuty expands Extended Threat Detection coverage to Amazon EKS clusters

By Dustin Ward

Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection with expanded coverage for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), building upon the capabilities we introduced in our AWS re:Invent 2024 announcement of Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection: AI/ML attack sequence identification for enhanced cloud security. Security teams managing Kubernetes workloads often struggle to detect…

Unify your security with the new AWS Security Hub for risk prioritization and response at scale (Preview)

By Dustin Ward

AWS Security Hub has been a central place for you to view and aggregate security alerts and compliance status across Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. Today, we are announcing the preview release of the new AWS Security Hub which offers additional correlation, contextualization, and visualization capabilities. This helps you prioritize critical security issues, respond at scale…

AWS Backup adds new Multi-party approval for logically air-gapped vaults

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of a new capability that integrates AWS Backup logically air-gapped vaults with Multi-party approval to provide access to your backups even when your AWS account is inaccessible due to inadvertent or malicious events. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services…