Introducing resource control policies (RCPs), a new type of authorization policy in AWS Organizations

Today, I am happy to introduce resource control policies (RCPs) – a new authorization policy managed in AWS Organizations that can be used to set the maximum available permissions on resources within your entire organization. They are a type of preventative control that help you establish a data perimeter in your AWS environment and restrict external access to resources at scale. Enforced centrally within Organizations, RCPs provide confidence to the central governance and security teams that access to resources within their AWS accounts conforms to their organization’s access control guidelines. RCPs are available in all commercial AWS Regions and, at launch, the following services are supported: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS), AWS Key…

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Redshift, Amazon CloudWatch, and more (Nov 4, 2024)

The spooky season has come and gone now. While there aren’t any Halloween-themed releases, AWS has celebrated it in big style by having a plethora of exciting releases last week! I think it’s safe to say that we have truly entered the ‘pre’ re:Invent stage as more and more interesting things are being released every week on the countdown to AWS re:Invent 2024. There is a lot to cover, so let me put my wizard hat on, open the big bag of treats, and dive into last week’s goodies! Something for developers There was no shortage of treats from AWS for developers this Halloween! AWS enhances the Lambda application building experience with VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit — AWS…

Celebrating 10 Years of Amazon ECS: Powering a Decade of Containerized Innovation

Today, we celebrate 10 years of Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and its incredible journey of pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the cloud! What began as a solution to streamline running Docker containers on Amazon Web Services (AWS) has evolved into a cornerstone technology, offering both impressive performance and operational simplicity, including a serverless option with AWS Fargate for seamless container orchestration. Over the past decade, Amazon ECS has become a trusted solution for countless organizations, providing the reliability and performance that customers such as SmugMug rely on to power their operations without being bogged down by infrastructure challenges. As Andrew Shieh, Principal Engineer at SmugMug, shares, Amazon ECS has been the “unsung hero” behind their seamless transition…

AWS Weekly Roundup: Oracle Database@AWS, Amazon RDS, AWS PrivateLink, Amazon MSK, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SageMaker and more

Hello, everyone! It’s been an interesting week full of AWS news as usual, but also full of vibrant faces filling up the rooms in a variety of events happening this month. Let’s start by covering some of the releases that have caught my attention this week. My Top 3 AWS news of the week Amazon RDS for MySQL zero-ETL integrations is now generally available and it comes with exciting new features. You are now able to configure zero-ETL integrations in your AWS CloudFormation templates, and you also now have the ability to set up multiple integrations from a source Amazon RDS for MySQL database with up to five Amazon Redshift warehouses. Lastly, you can now also apply data filters which determine…