Author: Kevin Fallis

With the recent introduction of Amazon Security Lake, it has never been simpler to access all your security-related data in one place. Whether it’s findings from AWS Security Hub, DNS query data from Amazon Route 53, network events such as VPC Flow Logs, or third-party integrations provided by partners such as Barracuda Email Protection, Cisco […]

Threat detection, the detection of unexpected or unwanted configuration changes and the detection of unexpected behavior, is a key pillar of security on AWS. However, applications, native AWS security services, and partner tools generate a large amount of findings and logs, making it challenging for customers’ security teams to parse, prioritize and take action. Amazon […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Prior to joining AWS, I led a development team that built mobile advertising solutions with Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is a popular open-source search and analytics engine for log analytics, real-time application monitoring, clickstream analysis, and (of course) search. The platform I […]

Today, Amazon OpenSearch Service announces support for publishing error logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.  This new feature provides you with the ability to capture error logs so you can access information about errors and warnings raised during the operation of the service. These details can be useful for troubleshooting. You can then use this information […]