Tag: application

Feed: Recent Announcements. Previously, there was no single tool for customers to go from a container running on Docker locally to running in AWS. Customers had to use a combination of tools outside of Docker Desktop and Docker Compose to package their containers, translate terminology from Docker Compose to an ECS task definition, and deploy the application to ECS. The new ECS functionality in Docker Desktop lets customers complete the journey from a local Docker Compose application to AWS, all within the Docker CLI. It allows customers to enable Service Discovery through AWS Cloud Map and add an Application Load ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The new rules verify security and operational best practices for services such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon EC2, AWS Identity and Access Management, Amazon Redshift, AWS Web Application Firewall and Elastic Load Balancing. For a full list of newly launched rules and supported Regions, click here. To learn more about AWS Config, visit the AWS Config webpage and technical documentation.   ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: James Beswick. This post is courtesy of Jakub Narloch, Senior Software Development Engineer.Today, AWS announced the support for Amazon API Gateway as an event target in Amazon EventBridge. This feature enables new integration scenarios for web applications and services. It allows customers to seamlessly connect their infrastructure, SaaS services, and APIs hosted in AWS. With API Gateway as a target for EventBridge, this creates new integration capabilities for new or existing web applications. This post explains how developers can now deliver events directly to their applications hosted on Amazon ECS, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Jamie Gale; Managing identity and access in the cloud is a complex problem, far more complex than it is in traditional, on-premise IT environments guarded by an explicit firewall. As the number of data breaches attributed to illicit or improper access continues to grow, it’s clear that this problem is here to stay. But what makes identity and access management (IAM) an ongoing obstacle for many organizations? And what can organizations do to reduce their risk in this capacity? Let’s start with the basics. First and foremost, what is IAM? According to Gartner, IAM is “the discipline ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. With AWS WAF Security Automations, customers can automatically deploy a single web access control list with a set of AWS WAF rules to filter common threats and protect web applications and APIs deployed with Amazon CloudFront, an Application Load Balancer, or an Amazon API Gateway. This latest release integrates with AWS WAFv2 API and includes enhancements to existing features for improved performance and cost optimization.  Additional performance improvements to AWS WAF Security Automations version 3.0 include: Customers have the option to automatically deploy AWS Managed Rules Eliminated the dependency on NodeJS; updated code to Python 3.8 Resolved API ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. When using the XFF header in an IP match rule, you can block requests to your application based either on the client’s original IP or on a proxy’s IP by specifying the position of the IP address. For example, to block based on client’s original IP, you can set the position to first IP found within the header value to block on client’s original IP, or set to last or any IP found to block on proxy’s IP. When using the XFF header on rate-based rules for rate limiting, or on geographic match rules for geofencing based ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Amanda Lowe. Manufacturing industries only realize 20 to 30 percent of the value of their data. By consistently leveraging the value of their data, manufacturing companies could reduce product development costs by up to 50 percent and operating costs by up to 25 percent, while increasing their gross margins by one third[1]. Industrial IoT (IIoT) is a data lever – it brings machines, field assets at the edge, cloud computing, analytics, and people together to improve the performance and productivity of industrial processes. With IIoT, industrial companies can digitize ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely on the Amazon network. You can now manage your Amazon RDS instances using the Amazon RDS API without requiring an Internet Gateway in your VPC, instead using AWS PrivateLink with private IP connectivity and security groups to meet your compliance requirements.  The Amazon RDS API is a webservice that enables you to set up, operate, scale, pause, and resume your Amazon RDS databases programmatically via AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs). With today’s launch, by using AWS PrivateLink you can invoke management operations using the ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. With AWS Copilot you can launch your service using one of the built in service patterns providing you secure and scalable infrastructure. Once your service is up and running, AWS Copilot has built in commands to easily add more services, infrastructure like databases or Amazon S3 Buckets, or even new deployment environments in different accounts and regions. While getting started and growing your application is important, AWS Copilot wants to make it easy for you to release and operate your application too. AWS Copilot lets you set up a fully functional CI/CD AWS CodePipeline with just two ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: René Cannaò; ProxySQL Firewall Overview ProxySQL’s flexible query rules engine has many uses, from Read/Write splitting, sharding and even creating firewall blacklist. This allows ProxySQL to be loved by both Performance and Security-minded engineers. Starting in ProxySQL 2.0.9, ProxySQL has another Security feature: the Firewall Whitelist. Modeled on MySQL Enterprise Firewall, this allows a security-conscious administrator to tune access to only allow certain queries. Imagine a situation where your webapp gets hacked, which exposes your user’s database credentials. If your webapp connects directly to the database, the malicious user can do what they want to your ... Read More