AWS Security Blog
Author: Artem Lovan
Artem Lovan is a Technologist and Solutions Architect at AWS. Artem helps AWS customers build scalable and sustainable products in the cloud. He has been involved in IT at many levels, including infrastructure, networking, security, DevOps, and software development.
The three most important AWS WAF rate-based rules
May 5, 2025: This post has been updated to reflect that the lowest allowable rate limit setting in AWS WAF rate-based rules has changed from 100 requests to 10. In this post, we explain what the three most important AWS WAF rate-based rules are for proactively protecting your web applications against common HTTP flood events, […]
How to restrict IAM roles to access AWS resources from specific geolocations using AWS Client VPN
You can improve your organization’s security posture by enforcing access to Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources based on IP address and geolocation. For example, users in your organization might bring their own devices, which might require additional security authorization checks and posture assessment in order to comply with corporate security requirements. Enforcing access to AWS […]
Building fine-grained authorization using Amazon Cognito, API Gateway, and IAM
September 8, 2023: It’s important to know that if you activate user sign-up in your user pool, anyone on the internet can sign up for an account and sign in to your apps. Don’t enable self-registration in your user pool unless you want to open your app to allow users to sign up. June 5, […]