AWS Verified Access provides secure access to your corporate applications and resources without a virtual private network (VPN). We launched Verified Access in preview at re:Invent 2 years ago as a way to provide secure, VPN-less access to corporate applications, enabling organizations to manage network access based on identity and device security instead of IP addresses, which increases control and security over application access. Today, Verified Access is launching a preview of its secure, VPN-less access capabilities to non-HTTP(S) applications and resources, enabling zero trust access to corporate resources over protocols such as Secure Shell (SSH) and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Organizations increasingly require secure, remote access to internal resources such as databases, remote desktops, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud…
Month: December 2024
Announcing AWS Transfer Family web apps for fully managed Amazon S3 file transfers
Today I would like to introduce you to AWS Transfer Family web apps, the newest AWS Transfer Family resource. You can create a fully managed, no-code web app that allows authenticated users to list, upload, download, copy, and delete files in specific Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. Non-developer, line-of-business users inside and outside of your organization can easily exchange file data without the need for desktop clients, scripts, faded instructions on sticky notes, or local IT help. As the web apps administrator, you get full control over authentication, access, and permissions, and can customize the web app with a page title and a favicon. Here is the web app that I created while writing this blog post: I…
Introducing Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Security Lake integration to simplify security analytics
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon Security Lake. This integration enables organizations to efficiently search, analyze, and gain actionable insights from their security data, streamlining complex data engineering requirements and unlocking the full potential of security data. It’s a new way to in-place query and analyze logs in Security Lake that minimizes the need to duplicate data and reduces the operational overhead of managing custom data pipelines. You can directly query your Security Lake data, saving the costs of moving data. With OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Security Lake, you can use the rich analytics capabilities of OpenSearch Dashboards to query and visualize your data in Security Lake. You can also analyze…
Use your on-premises infrastructure in Amazon EKS clusters with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Hybrid Nodes, a new feature that you can use to attach your on-premises and edge infrastructure as nodes to EKS clusters in the cloud. With Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes, you can unify Kubernetes management across cloud and on-premises environments and take advantage of the scale and availability of Amazon EKS in all the places your applications need to run. You can use your existing on-premises hardware, while offloading the responsibility for managing Kubernetes control planes to EKS and conserving on-premises capacity for your workloads. Using Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes, you can adopt consistent operational practices and tooling across your cloud and on-premises environments. Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes…