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Tag: Security

Announcing the Security Competency for APN Consulting Partners

Recognizing APN Consulting Partners who provide deep technical and consulting expertise helping enterprises adopt, develop, and deploy complex security projects. Security is the top priority at AWS. Under the AWS shared responsibility model, AWS provides a global secure infrastructure and foundation compute, storage, networking and database services, as well as higher level services. While AWS […]

Generating Custom AWS CloudFormation Templates with Lambda to Create Cross-Account Roles

Ian Scofield is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS.  In a previous post in our series, we showed how to use an AWS CloudFormation launch stack URL to help customers create a cross-account role in their AWS account. As mentioned in an earlier APN Blog post, a cross-account role is the recommended method to […]

Shift Security Left through DevSecOps

Fusing application development with integrated, automated security processes By Christian Lachaux, AABG Security Lead, Accenture; Federico Tandeter, Cloud Security Offering Development Lead, Accenture. Accenture is a Premier APN Consulting Partner and AWS MSP who holds a number of AWS Competencies, including Migration. Development+Security+Operations, better known as DevSecOps, is revolutionizing application development by integrating automated security […]

Partner SA Roundup – March 2017

For this month’s Partner SA roundup, AWS Partner SAs Pratap Ramamurthy, Juan Villa, and Scott Ward discuss three APN Technology Partners: SoftNAS, Threat Stack, and Zscaler. Let’s dive in! SoftNAS, by Juan Villa Deploying and managing high performance and highly available NAS/SAN solutions can be difficult and error prone. SoftNAS, an APN Advanced Technology and […]

AWS Big Data

HIPAA and HITRUST on AWS

By Chris Whalley, APN Compliance Program Leader at AWS The reasons customers continue choosing the AWS Cloud are many: agility, security, control, and cost are just some we hear from customers large and small. The reasons healthcare organizations are choosing the AWS Cloud are no different and, since launching our Business Associate Addendum in 2013, […]

GxP on AWS

By Chris Whalley. Chris is a Security Assurance TPM at AWS.  GxP (Good [anything] Practices) is an acronym that refers to the regulations and guidelines applicable to life sciences organizations that make food and medical products such as drugs, medical devices, and medical software applications. The term GxP encompasses a broad range of compliance-related activities […]

AWS Security

How to Integrate REST APIs with Single-Page Apps and Secure Them Using Auth0 – Part 2

Editor’s note: This is the second of a popular two-part series by Aravind Kodandaramaiah. Read Part 1 >> By Aravind Kodandaramaiah, Solutions Architect at AWS who works closely with Global Systems Integrators (GSIs) In my previous post on securing REST APIs with Auth0, you learned the basics of token-based authentication using JWT tokens, configured the Auth0 portal […]

AWS Security

How to Integrate REST APIs with Single-Page Apps and Secure Them Using Auth0 – Part 1

Editor’s note: This is the first of a popular two-part series by Aravind Kodandaramaiah. Read Part 2 >> By Aravind Kodandaramaiah, Solutions Architect at AWS who works closely with Global Systems Integrators (GSIs) It’s fairly common for customers to host backend REST APIs for their mobile, web, and enterprise applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). […]

Have You Read Our 2016 AWS Partner Solutions Architect Guest Posts?

In 2016, we hosted 38 guest posts from AWS Partner Solutions Architects (SAs), who work very closely with both Consulting and Technology Partners as they build solutions on AWS. As we kick off 2017, I want to take a look back at all of the fantastic content created by our SAs. A few key themes emerged […]