AWS Security Blog

AWS Security Profiles: Steven Laino, Security Architect

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. How long have you been at AWS, and what do you do in your current role? […]

AWS Security Profiles: Myles Hosford, Compliance Specialist

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. How long have you been at AWS, and what do you do in your current role? […]

Add Tags to Manage Your AWS IAM Users and Roles

We made it easier for you to manage your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resources by enabling you to add tags to your IAM users and roles (also known as IAM principals). Tags enable you to add customizable key-value pairs to resources, and many AWS services support tagging of AWS resources. Now, you can […]

Amazon Spheres, Brittany Doncaster, Solutions Architect

AWS Security Profiles: Brittany Doncaster, Solutions Architect

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. How long have you been at AWS, and what do you do in your current role? […]

AWS Security Profiles: Brigid Johnson, Senior Manager of Product Management

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. How long have you been at AWS, and what do you do in your current role? […]

AWS Security Profiles: Eric Brandwine, VP and Distinguished Engineer

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. How long you have been at AWS, and what you do in your current role? I’ve […]

AWS Security Profiles: Ben Potter, Security Lead, Well-Architected

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. How long have you been at AWS, and what do you do in your current role? […]

How to create and retrieve secrets managed in AWS Secrets Manager using AWS CloudFormation templates

Updated November 15, 2018: We added information to make variables more clear in the sample template. AWS Secrets Manager now integrates with AWS CloudFormation so you can create and retrieve secrets securely using CloudFormation. This integration makes it easier to automate provisioning your AWS infrastructure. For example, without any code changes, you can generate unique […]

Using AWS Firewall Manager and WAF to protect your web applications with master rules and application-specific rules

Jeff Barr’s blog post introducing AWS Firewall Manager describes how you can centrally manage a set of web application firewall rules to protect all the applications in an AWS Organization. This blog post will take you through the specific steps to implement firewall rules using both AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) and AWS Firewall […]

AWS Security Profiles: Don “Beetle” Bailey, Senior Principal Security Engineer; Brian Wagner, FSI Compliance Specialist

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. How long have you been at AWS, and what do you do in your current role? […]