Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

Domain governance in Amazon Route 53 can mean the difference between a routine account decommissioning and an unplanned outage. Picture this situation: your organization closes an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account, and five days later a customer-facing website becomes unreachable, email stops flowing, and SSL certificate validation fails. A domain that this account had registered […]

When federated users require access to DNS records in shared environments, you often turn to overly broad permissions or maintain separate policies per user. Both approaches create operational overhead and broader-than-necessary permissions that grow with your organization.  Part 1 of this series showed you how to use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)  condition keys […]

Reviewing partner contracts by hand is slow and repetitive, so teams want an AI agent to do the first pass. In the example used throughout this post, a company called Example Corp reviews incoming partner agreements against its own standard operating procedures. A partner uploads an agreement, the agent checks it against those procedures, and […]

Migrate from AWS Transit Gateway to AWS Cloud WAN across multiple Regions using a six-phase Terraform approach with AWS Network MCP Server validation

For organizations operating multi-tenant environments, regulated environments, or multiple business units, maintaining strict network segmentation between SD-WAN and AWS is essential for meeting security, compliance, and operational requirements. This is Part 2 of the two-part series on extending SD-WAN segmentation into AWS Cloud WAN. In Part 1, the Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) based Connect attachment […]

For organizations operating multi-tenant environments, regulated environments, or multiple business units, maintaining strict network segmentation between SD-WAN and AWS is essential for meeting security, compliance, and operational requirements. Deploying SD-WAN virtual appliances and extending your segmentation through AWS Cloud WAN helps unify these segmented environments under a single, scalable global network. That said, segmentation is […]

Organizations securing access to internal applications face a common challenge: traditional VPNs grant broad network access once connected, leaving applications accessible beyond their intended scope and lacking granular traffic inspection. AWS Verified Access (AVA) and AWS Network Firewall (Network Firewall) provide a zero trust solution that addresses these challenges by combining identity-based access control with […]

If you manage DNS across multiple AWS accounts with Amazon Route 53 Profiles, achieving least-privilege access for each team can be challenging. Without fine-grained permissions, one team might inadvertently modify another team’s resources leading to governance gaps, security risks, and slower adoption of centralized DNS management. The new fine-grained AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS […]

Running an internet-facing application means estimating and managing costs across many services and features: content delivery, web application firewall (WAF), DNS, logging, and DDoS protection. Each has its own pricing model, its own metering, its own line item on the bill. Traffic from successful launches, organic growth, and AI bots can spike without warning, increasing […]

In Part 1 of this series, we demonstrated a scalable solution of using Amazon Web Services Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) conditional keys and AWS principal tags for fine-grained access control of shared Amazon Route 53 hosted zones, public or private, in the same AWS account. As user environments grow, AWS administrators and network […]