VPC Flow Log automation using AWS Control Tower LifeCycle

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedVPC Flow Log automation using AWS Control Tower LifeCycle Many customers that I work with use Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Flow Logs for monitoring, troubleshooting, anomaly detection, or archival purposes. One common ask from my customers is how to automate and centralize Amazon VPC Flow Logs in a multi-account environment.…

How BriteCore Improved Security and Scalability by Migrating Insurance Workloads with AWS Landing Zone

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow BriteCore Improved Security and Scalability by Migrating Insurance Workloads with AWS Landing Zone By Ben Hayden, VP Engineering at BriteCoreBy Sal Darji, Strategic Alliances & Partnerships at BriteCoreBy Sudeep John, Partner Solution Architect at AWS Traditionally, the insurance industry has relied on AS/400s, mainframes, and other infrastructures to run their workloads.…

How to import PFX-formatted certificates into AWS Certificate Manager using OpenSSL

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to import PFX-formatted certificates into AWS Certificate Manager using OpenSSL In this blog post, we show you how to import PFX-formatted certificates into AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) using OpenSSL tools. Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates are small data files that digitally bind a cryptographic key pair to…

Automate dataset monitoring in Amazon QuickSight

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAutomate dataset monitoring in Amazon QuickSight Amazon QuickSight is an analytics service that you can use to create datasets, perform one-time analyses, and build visualizations and dashboards. In an enterprise deployment of QuickSight, you can have multiple dashboards, and each dashboard can have multiple visualizations based on multiple datasets. This can quickly…

Central Logging in Multi-Account Environments

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCentral Logging in Multi-Account Environments Centralized logging is often required in large enterprise environments for a number of reasons, ranging from compliance and security to analytics and application-specific needs. I’ve seen that in a multi-account environment, whether the accounts belong to the same line of business or multiple business units, collecting logs…