Containers
Tag: authentication
Enabling mTLS with ALB in Amazon EKS
Introduction In today’s interconnected world, communication faces evolving security threats. From sensitive financial transactions in online banking to secure data transmissions in the automobile industry, ensuring trust and authenticity between businesses is becoming more and more critical. This is where Mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) can be an option to offer enhanced security through advanced […]
Securing Amazon Elastic Container Service applications using Application Load Balancer and Amazon Cognito
Introduction Designing and maintaining secure user management, authentication and other related features for applications is not an easy task. Amazon Cognito takes care of this work, which allows developers to focus on building the core business logic of the application. Amazon Cognito provides user management, authentication, and authorization for applications where users can log in […]
Using mTLS with SPIFFE/SPIRE in AWS App Mesh on Amazon EKS
By Efe Selcuk and Apurup Chevuru and Michael Hausenblas You know that here at AWS we consider security as “job zero”, and in the context of the shared responsibility model we provide you with controls to take care of your part. One popular use case of service meshes is to strengthen the security posture of […]
Introducing OIDC identity provider authentication for Amazon EKS
Today, we introduced user authentication for Amazon EKS clusters from an OpenID Connect (OIDC) Identity Provider (IDP). This feature allows customers to integrate an OIDC identity provider with a new or existing Amazon EKS cluster running Kubernetes version 1.16 or later. The OIDC IDP can be used as an alternative to, or along with AWS […]