AWS Security Blog
Author: Zachary Miller
Zach Miller is a Senior Security Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS. His background is in data protection and security architecture, focused on a variety of security domains including cryptography, secrets management, and data classification. Today, he is focused on helping enterprise AWS customers adopt and operationalize AWS security services to increase security effectiveness and reduce risk.
How to choose the right AWS service for managing secrets and configurations
When building applications on AWS, you often need to manage various types of configuration data, including sensitive values such as API tokens or database credentials. From environment variables and API keys to passwords and endpoints, this configuration data helps determine application behavior. AWS offers managed services that you can use for different aspects of managing […]
How to use AWS Private Certificate Authority short-lived certificate mode
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) is a highly available, fully managed private certificate authority (CA) service that you can use to create CA hierarchies and issue private X.509 certificates. You can use these private certificates to establish endpoints for TLS encryption, cryptographically sign code, authenticate users, and more. Based on customer feedback for […]
How to evaluate and use ECDSA certificates in AWS Certificate Manager
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is a managed service that enables you to provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates that you can use to securely encrypt network traffic. You can now use ACM to request Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) certificates and associate the certificates with AWS services like Application Load Balancer (ALB) […]