AWS Security Blog

Category: Elastic Load Balancing

How to Configure an LDAPS Endpoint for Simple AD

September 9, 2020: There’s an updated version of this blog here – https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-configure-ldaps-endpoint-for-simple-ad/. Simple AD, which is powered by Samba  4, supports basic Active Directory (AD) authentication features such as users, groups, and https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-configure-ldaps-endpoint-for-simple-ad/the ability to join domains. Simple AD also includes an integrated Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server. LDAP is a standard application […]

Updated Whitepaper Available: AWS Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency

AWS is committed to providing you high availability, security, and resiliency in the face of bad actors on the Internet. As part of this commitment, AWS provides tools, best practices, and AWS services that you can use to build distributed denial of services (DDoS)–resilient applications. We recently released the 2016 version of the AWS Best […]

With New ELB Permissions, Support for IAM in AWS Is Going Strong

The Elastic Load Balancing team announced on May 13, 2014 that they’ve added support for resource-level permissions. Not only can you specify which ELB actions a user can perform, you can specify which resources the user can perform those actions on. For more information about the new ELB permissions, see Controlling Access to Your Load […]