by ray | Oct 9, 2019 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, ITAR
The AWS Management Console for the AWS GovCloud (US) Region provides an easy-to-use graphical interface to manage your AWS resources, similar to the AWS Management Console for the standard regions. In the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, you must create an IAM user and use...
by ray | Oct 8, 2019 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, ITAR
If you are serving as a Solution Provider and reselling in AWS GovCloud (US), you must create an IAM user to sign in to the AWS Management Console for the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. If you received your account credentials through a Solution Provider, please contact...
by ray | Oct 8, 2019 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, ITAR, Security
Lock Away Your AWS Account Root User Access Keys You use an access key (an access key ID and secret access key) to make programmatic requests to AWS. However, do not use your AWS account root user access key. The access key for your AWS account root user gives full...
by ray | Jul 18, 2019 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, ITAR, Security, Tech News
AWS Config rules give you the power to perform Dynamic Compliance Checking on your Cloud Resources. Building on the AWS Resource Configuration Tracking provided by AWS Config, you can use a combination of predefined and custom rules to continuously and dynamically...
by ray | Jul 18, 2019 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, ITAR, Security, Tech News
Earlier this month I met with an enterprise-scale AWS customer. They told me that they are planning to go all-in on AWS, and want to benefit from all that we have learned about setting up and running AWS at scale. In addition to setting up a Cloud Center of...
by ray | Jul 18, 2019 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, ITAR, Security, Tech News
I’m a developer, or at least that’s what I tell myself while coming to terms with being a manager. I’m definitely not an infosec expert. I’ve been paged more than once in my career because something I wrote or configured caused a security concern. When systems enable...
