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Important changes to CloudTrail events for AWS IAM Identity Center

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AWS IAM Identity Center is streamlining its AWS CloudTrail events by including only essential fields that are necessary for workflows like audit and incident response. This change simplifies user identification in CloudTrail, addressing customer feedback. It also enhances correlation between IAM Identity Center users and external directory services, such …

How to use interface VPC endpoints to meet your security objectives

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October 28, 2024: We updated the text and figure for security objective 1 to show Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints—powered by AWS PrivateLink—enable customers to establish private connectivity to supported AWS services, enterprise services, and third-party services by using …

Establishing a data perimeter on AWS: Analyze your account activity to evaluate impact and refine controls

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A data perimeter on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a set of preventive controls you can use to help establish a boundary around your data in AWS Organizations. This boundary helps ensure that your data can be accessed only by trusted identities from within networks you expect and that …

How to use AWS managed applications with IAM Identity Center

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AWS IAM Identity Center is the preferred way to provide workforce access to Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts, and enables you to provide workforce access to many AWS managed applications, such as Amazon Q Developer (Formerly known as Code Whisperer). As we continue to release more AWS managed applications …

How to use AWS managed applications with IAM Identity Center: Enable Amazon Q without migrating existing IAM federation flows

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AWS IAM Identity Center is the preferred way to provide workforce access to Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts, and enables you to provide workforce access to many AWS managed applications, such as Amazon Q. As we continue to release more AWS managed applications, customers have told us they want …

The curious case of faster AWS KMS symmetric key rotation

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Today, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is introducing faster options for automatic symmetric key rotation. We’re also introducing rotate on-demand, rotation visibility improvements, and a new limit on the price of all symmetric keys that have had two or more rotations (including existing keys). In this post …

Detecting and remediating inactive user accounts with Amazon Cognito

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For businesses, particularly those in highly regulated industries, managing user accounts isn’t just a matter of security but also a compliance necessity. In sectors such as finance, healthcare, and government, where regulations often mandate strict control over user access, disabling stale user accounts is a key compliance activity …

Modern web application authentication and authorization with Amazon VPC Lattice

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When building API-based web applications in the cloud, there are two main types of communication flow in which identity is an integral consideration: User-to-Service communication: Authenticate and authorize users to communicate with application services and APIs Service-to-Service communication: Authenticate and authorize application services to talk to each other To …