AWS Open Source Blog

Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Accelerate AWS IAM Identity Center Implementation Using AWS Cloud Development Kit

Accelerate AWS IAM Identity Center (Successor to AWS Single Sign-On) Implementation using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)

In conversations with our customers, we often hear that they find it tedious to write AWS CloudFormation templates to create new permission sets, assign permission sets to users and groups in AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) and grant access for users and groups to multiple AWS accounts in their organization. This […]

Dashboards as code: A new approach to visualizing AWS APIs

You manage your infrastructure with code, why not manage your dashboards the same way? With Steampipe’s dashboards-as-code approach you write HCL to define dashboard widgets, and you write SQL to fill them with data extracted from APIs. Here are some common questions about your AWS resources: How many resources do I have? How old are […]

Running Dicoogle, an open source PACS solution, on AWS (part 1)

This blog is the first part of a two-part series that describes how to host a secure DICOM server on AWS. It is based on the Dicoogle open source software, which provides the functionality of a PACS (picture archiving and communication system). A PACS stores and indexes DICOM medical image files, and uses the DICOM […]

Build, train, and deploy Amazon Fraud Detector models using the open source Python SDK

Companies providing digital services are looking for ways to effectively identify fraudulent activities, such as online payment fraud and fake account creation. Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) and builds on 20 years of fraud detection expertise from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon.com to automatically identify potentially […]

Setting up Amazon Managed Grafana cross-account data source using customer managed IAM roles

Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed and secure data visualization service for open source Grafana that enables customers to instantly query, correlate, and visualize operational metrics, logs, and traces for their applications from multiple data sources. Amazon Managed Grafana integrates with multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) security services, and supports AWS Single Sign-On (AWS […]

Improving HA and long-term storage for Prometheus using Thanos on EKS with S3

Prometheus is an open source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit that is widely adopted as a standard monitoring tool with self-managed and provider-managed Kubernetes. Prometheus provides many useful features, such as dynamic service discovery, powerful queries, and seamless alert notification integration. Beyond certain scale, however, problems arise when basic Prometheus capabilities do not meet requirements […]