Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

Many AWS customers move their AWS accounts between organizations When your company manages more than one organization, and whether you regularly move accounts between them; or you are consolidating accounts after a merger, acquisition, or divesture. Account migrations are part of operating on AWS.   Previously, moving an account meant removing it from the source organization, making it standalone, then inviting it to the target organization. For accounts with AWS Resource Access […]

Introduction Pinterest launched in 2009 with a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. As one of the early cloud pioneers, Pinterest grew to hundreds of thousands of resources and exabytes of data within a single AWS account well before most cloud-native organizations operated at that scale or the best […]

Organizations managing workloads on AWS rely on AWS CloudTrail to answer the fundamental questions: Who did what, where, and when? Since January 2022, customers have stored their CloudTrail activity logs in CloudTrail Lake, a managed data lake purpose-built for capturing, storing, querying user and API activity across their AWS environment.  As organizations scale across multiple […]

In this post you will learn about AWS Organizations tag policies, the tag_policy_compliance Terraform provider setting, a reusable tagging module that automatically applies required tags, and a test-driven approach that dynamically validates against your organizational policies.

Achieve Mission-Critical Resiliency at Scale with AWS Unified Operations – The Top Tier of AWS Support to Achieve High Availability, Faster Migrations, and Accelerated Incident Resolution The Shift-Left Paradigm: From Reactive Firefighting to Proactive Prevention Organizations running mission-critical workloads face three critical operational gaps that undermine resilience and slow cloud adoption. Skills gaps make cloud-native […]

When AWS member accounts are compromised, attackers can remove them from your organization, disabling all governance controls. In this post, you’ll learn how to protect your AWS environment from account compromise leaving your AWS Organization using layered security controls, including service control policies, secure account migration, and centralized root access management. AWS secures the infrastructure […]

Moeve, formerly known as Cepsa, is a global integrated energy company with over 90 years of experience and more than 11,000 employees. Moeve is committed to driving Europe’s energy transition and accelerating decarbonization efforts. The company has embraced digital transformation to enhance energy efficiency, safety, and sustainability, focusing on investments in green hydrogen, second-generation biofuels, […]

Organizations leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) receive thousands of security and optimization recommendations monthly, yet many remain unimplemented due to competing priorities and resource constraints. AWS Managed Services (AMS) Trusted Remediator addresses this challenge by automating remediation across AWS accounts, significantly reducing the time and effort required for manual remediation processes. The solution features a continuously expanding library of pre-built remediations […]

How do you deploy hundreds of AWS accounts for a large-scale hackathon? Provide real-time visibility to leadership? Enable participant self-service while monitoring spending across accounts? Enterprise innovation events often lack real-time visibility into participant engagement, resource utilization, and outcomes. Leaders can’t see engagement metrics; builders can’t access accounts and information on-demand. Without observability and governance, […]

As you scale your AWS environment from hundreds to thousands of AWS accounts, maintaining consistent governance standards across this expanded infrastructure requires a strategic approach. Governance controls—the automated policies and rules that enforce standards across your cloud infrastructure—are essential for managing this scale, but implementing them presents two fundamental challenges. First, without proper controls, a […]