Tag: Key Management Service

In this age of smart homes, big data, IoT devices, mobile phones, social networks, chatbots, and game consoles, streaming data scenarios are everywhere. Amazon Kinesis Streams enables you to build custom applications that can capture, process, analyze, and store terabytes of data per hour from thousands of streaming data sources. Since Amazon Kinesis Streams allows […]

As one of the most venerable members of the AWS family of services, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is an essential part of many applications. Presentations such as Amazon SQS for Better Architecture and Massive Message Processing with Amazon SQS and Amazon DynamoDB explain how SQS can be used to build applications that are […]

In November of last year, we brought a service to the market that we hoped would be a major step toward helping those who have the need to securely access and examine massive amounts of data on a daily basis.  This service is none other than Amazon Athena which I think of as a managed […]

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) provides you with seamless, centralized control over your encryption keys. Our customers have told us that they love this fully managed service because it automatically handles all of the availability, scalability, physical security, and hardware maintenance for the underlying Key Management Infrastructure (KMI). It also centralizes key management, with […]

My colleague Sivakanth Mundru sent the guest post below to introduce a pair of features for AWS CloudTrail. — Jeff; As you know, AWS CloudTrail records API calls made on your account and delivers log files containing API activity to an S3 bucket you specify. Today, we are announcing two new features for CloudTrail: Support […]

The AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) provides you with seamless, centralized control over your encryption keys. As I noted when we launched the service (see my post, New AWS Key Management Service, for more information), this service gives you a new option for data protection and relieves you of many of the more onerous […]

You can now encrypt your Amazon RDS for SQL Server and Amazon RDS for Oracle databases using keys that you manage through AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) (this feature was already available for Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL). The encryption applies to data at rest on the underlying storage for […]

Updates: April 2018 — Edited to remove packages that no longer exist. September 2018 – Edited to remove references to public folders. April 2019 – Edited to remove reference to introductory pricing. Have you ever had to set up, run, and scale an email server? While it has been a long time since I have […]