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…
New for AWS Control Tower – Comprehensive Controls Management (Preview)
Today, customers in regulated industries face the challenge of defining and enforcing controls needed to meet compliance and security requirements while empowering engineers to make their design choices. In addition to addressing risk, reliability, performance, and resiliency requirements, organizations may also need to comply with frameworks and standards such as PCI DSS and NIST 800-53. Building controls that account for service relationships and their dependencies is time-consuming and expensive. Sometimes customers restrict engineering access to AWS services and features until their cloud architects identify risks and implement their own controls. To make that easier, today we are launching comprehensive controls management in AWS Control Tower. You can use it to apply managed preventative, detective, and proactive controls to accounts and…