Posted On: May 9, 2023
We’re excited to announce the General Availability of AWS IoT Device Defender and the secure tunneling feature of AWS IoT Device Management in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, providing flexibility to customers and extending the service footprint to an additional location in the Middle East besides AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region.
AWS IoT Device Defender is a fully managed AWS IoT service that makes it easy to audit configurations, detect anomalies, and receive alerts to help secure your IoT device fleet. With AWS IoT Device Defender, you can improve the security posture of your device fleet and automate your fleet’s security assessment. With this launch, customers in Middle East (UAE) region will have access within their region to AWS IoT Device Defender features, including audit, rule detect and ML detect.
AWS IoT Device Management helps you register, organize, monitor, and remotely manage IoT devices at scale. Secure tunneling feture of AWS IoT Device Management enables you to establish bidirectional communication to remote devices that are behind a firewall over a secure connection managed by AWS IoT. With this launch, AWS Middle East (UAE) Region customers can access secure tunneling feature to easily build a secure connection between source and destination devices that is brokered through a cloud proxy service on AWS.
To get started and to learn more, refer to the technical documentation of AWS IoT Device Defender and secure tunneling feature of AWS IoT Device Management.