Introducing Amazon CloudFront VPC origins: Enhanced security and streamlined operations for your applications

I’m happy to introduce the release of Amazon CloudFront Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) origins, a new feature that enables content delivery from applications hosted in private subnets within their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). This makes it easy to secure web applications, allowing you to focus on growing your businesses while improving security and maintaining high-performance and global scalability with CloudFront. Customers serving content from Amazon Simple Storage Solution (Amazon S3), AWS Elemental Services and AWS Lambda Function URLs can use Origin Access Control as a managed solution to secure their origins, and make CloudFront the single front-door to your application. However, this was more difficult to achieve for applications that are hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon…

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…