Today, we announce automated data discovery for Amazon Macie. This new capability allows you to gain visibility into where your sensitive data resides on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) at a fraction of the cost of running a full data inspection across all your S3 buckets. At AWS, security is our first priority. The security of the infrastructure itself, but also the security of your data. We give you access to services to manage identities and access, to protect the network and your applications, to detect suspicious activities, to protect your data, and to report on and monitor your compliance status. Amazon Macie is a data security service that discovers sensitive data using machine learning and pattern matching and…
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New – AWS Config Rules Now Support Proactive Compliance
When operating a business, you have to find the right balance between speed and control for your cloud operations. On one side, you want to have the ability to quickly provision the cloud resources you need for your applications. At the same time, depending on your industry, you need to maintain compliance with regulatory, security, and operational best practices. AWS Config provides rules, which you can run in detective mode to evaluate if the configuration settings of your AWS resources are compliant with your desired configuration settings. Today, we are extending AWS Config rules to support proactive mode so that they can be run at any time before provisioning and save time spent to implement custom pre-deployment validations. When creating standard…
New AWS Glue 4.0 – New and Updated Engines, More Data Formats, and More
AWS Glue is a scalable, serverless tool that helps you to accelerate the development and execution of your data integration and ETL workloads. Today we are launching Glue 4.0, with updated engines, support for additional data formats, Ray support, and a lot more. Before I dive in, just a word about versioning. Unlike most AWS services, where the service team owns and has full control over the APIs, Glue includes a collection of libraries, engines, and tools developed by the open source community. Some of these components do not maintain strict backward compatibility, often in pursuit of efficiency. In order to make sure that changes to the components do not impact your Glue jobs, you must select a particular Glue…
AWS Wickr – A Secure, End-to-End Encrypted Communication Service For Enterprises With Auditing And Regulatory Requirements
I am excited to announce the availability of AWS Wickr, an enterprise communications service with end-to-end encryption, that allows businesses and public sector organizations to communicate more securely, enabling customers to meet auditing and regulatory requirements like e-discovery, legal hold, and FOIA requests. Unlike many enterprise communication tools, Wickr uses end-to-end encryption mechanisms to ensure your messages, files, voice, or video calls are solely accessible to their intended recipients. The flexible administrative controls make it easy for your Wickr administrator to manage the communication channels and retain information to meet regulatory requirements when required. The information retained is stored on the servers you choose and stays entirely under your control. End-to-End Encryption Wickr provides secure communication between two or more…