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Feed: Recent Announcements. If you are an existing Amazon GuardDuty customer then you don’t need to take any action to start using this new threat detection capability to monitor your control plane operations as captured in AWS CloudTrail. If you are also a GuardDuty S3 Protection customer then this new threat detection will further inform you when EC2 instance credentials are used from another AWS account to invoke S3 data plane operations (e.g. LISTs/PUTs/GETs). S3 protection is on by default when you enable GuardDuty for the first time. If you are already using GuardDuty to protect your accounts and workloads, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. CloudWatch Logs now makes it easier for AWS Organizations customers to manage CloudWatch Logs Subscription Filter destination access policies. Subscription Filters are a feature that allow you to deliver log data in real-time to services such as Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, or Amazon Lambda. Subscription Filters are also used to share log data with other AWS accounts. You can now use your Organization ID or Organization Path in destination access policies. A common use case for CloudWatch Logs Subscription Filters is to help customers centralize log collection. Now with Organization ID and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. With Amazon Redshift, you can analyze all your data to derive holistic insights about your business and your customers. One of the best practices of modern application design is to have centralized logging. Troubleshooting application problems is easy when you can correlate all your data together. When you enable audit logging, Amazon Redshift logs information about connections and user activities in the database. These logs help you monitor the database for security and troubleshooting purposes, a process called database auditing. The logs ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Detective has added support for AWS Organizations to simplify account management for security operations and investigations across all existing and future accounts in an organization. With this launch, new and existing Detective customers can onboard and centrally manage the Detective graph database for up to 1,200 AWS accounts. This support is available today in all Detective supported AWS Regions. To learn more, see the Amazon Detective Administration Guide. To get started, the organization management account can designate any member account as the Detective administrator. Detective recognizes when you’ve designated an account to administer other AWS security services ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Many AWS customers rely on a multi-account strategy to scale their organization and better manage their data lake across different projects or lines of business. The AWS Glue Data Catalog contains references to data used as sources and targets of your extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs in AWS Glue. Using a centralized Data Catalog offers organizations a unified metadata repository and minimizes the administrative overhead related to sharing data across different accounts, thereby expanding access to the data lake. Amazon Athena is one of the popular choices to run analytical queries in data lakes ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. In April 2021, IAM Access Analyzer added policy generation to help you create IAM policies based on access activity found in your AWS CloudTrail. IAM Access Analyzer has now increased policy generation quotas to 50 per day to help you right-size permissions for more roles in your account. As you right-size permissions across multiple workloads in your account, you can now use policy generation across your roles to grant just the required permissions. To use IAM Access Analyzer policy generation, visit your role’s detail page and select “generate policy” to get started. When you request a policy, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon SageMaker now offers enhancements to the machine learning (ML) lineage tracking capability that enables customers to track and query the lineage of artifacts such as data, features, and models across an ML workflow. Now, customers can retrieve the end-to-end lineage graph spanning the entire workflow from data preparation to model deployment through a single query. This feature eliminates undifferentiated heavy lifting needed to retrieve lineage information one workflow step at a time and manually stitch them all together. Customers can also retrieve lineage information for segments of the workflow by defining a step as the focal ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. We are excited to announce you can now use Terraform to provision and customize accounts through AWS Control Tower with AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT). Your developers can now enjoy a streamlined process which automates the provisioning of fully functional accounts, providing your users with faster access to the resources they need to be successful. AFT provides you with a single Terraform infrastructure as code (IaC) pipeline to provision an AWS Control Tower managed account that helps meet your business and security policies, before handing the accounts to end users. AFT provides automated account ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Kit Copson; How to Watch Netflix on Chromecast 2021 [Cast From Laptop & Phone] Search The Chromecast-Netflix pairing is a great solution if you’re fed up with watching Netflix on your phone or computer screen. Netflix is, after all, a streaming service worthy of the big screen. Best of all, it’s easy to use your Chromecast with Netflix. Stick with us as we explain how to watch Netflix on Chromecast.  Key Takeaways: Watching Netflix with your Chromecast is incredibly easy.You can cast Netflix to your Chromecast using either a laptop or a smartphone or tablet.If you’re facing ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Data driven organizations recognize the intrinsic value of data and realize that monetizing data is not just about selling data to subscribers. They understand the indirect economic impact of data and the value that good data brings to the organization. They must democratize data and make it available for business decision makers to realize its benefits. Today, this would mean replicating data across multiple disparate databases, which requires moving the data across various platforms. Amazon Redshift data sharing lets you securely and easily share live data across Amazon Redshift clusters or AWS accounts for read ... Read More