Tag: Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Log analysis is essential for understanding the effectiveness of any security solution. It can be valuable for day-to-day troubleshooting and also for your long-term understanding of how your security environment is performing. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise […]

The following 10 posts were the most viewed AWS Security Blog posts that we published during 2017. You can use this list as a guide to catch up on your AWS Security Blog reading or read a post again that you found particularly useful. Coming Soon: Improvements to How You Sign In to Your AWS […]

Note from July 11, 2017: In response to readers’ feedback, the author of this blog post has updated this post’s example code to provide more reliable handling of error scenarios, particularly in which the geographical lookup fails. Additionally, the author has added details about testing the example code by using Amazon Kinesis Data Generator. If you already […]

To help you secure your AWS resources, we recommend that you adopt a layered approach that includes the use of preventative and detective controls. For example, incorporating host-based controls for your Amazon EC2 instances can restrict access and provide appropriate levels of visibility into system behaviors and access patterns. These controls often include a host-based […]

The following 10 posts were the most viewed AWS Security Blog posts that we published during 2016. You can use this list as a guide to catch up on your blog reading or even read a post again that you found particularly useful. How to Set Up DNS Resolution Between On-Premises Networks and AWS Using […]

With the recent release of Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES), you now can build applications without setting up and maintaining your own search cluster on Amazon EC2. One of the key benefits of using Amazon ES is that you can leverage AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to grant or deny access to your search […]

Note: On May 3, 2017, we published a related blog post also written by Guy Denney, How to Visualize and Refine Your Network’s Security by Adding Security Group IDs to Your VPC Flow Logs. Many organizations start their journey with AWS by experimenting with existing applications. Those experiments may include trying to move an application to […]