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Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Enforcing encryption in transit with TLS1.2 or higher with Amazon S3
In 2022 we published a blog post explaining we will be updating the TLS configuration for all AWS service API endpoints to a minimum of version TLS 1.2. This update means you will need to use TLS versions 1.2 or higher for your connections, as we will be updating TLS configurations with a continued gradual rollout […]
Failover Microsoft Azure workloads to AWS using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Enterprises strive to make sure that business critical applications, workloads, and data remain available during planned and unplanned downtime. When using the cloud, organizations must make sure to apply the same approach to business continuity and disaster recovery as they would with on-premises infrastructure. Customers on the cloud can leverage AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS […]
Simplify and scale access management to shared datasets with cross-account Amazon S3 Access Points
In today’s interconnected and data centric world, businesses must have access to the right data for data-driven decision-making, ultimately driving better business results. Collecting all the relevant data takes time and capital as it requires setting up data ingestion pipelines, hiring analysts to validate and interpret the data, and incorporating data insights that influence important […]
Automating AWS Backup pre- and post-script execution with AWS Step Functions
Customers execute custom scripts before or after a backup job to automate and orchestrate required and repetitive tasks. For example, customers running applications hosted in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances use scripts to complete application transactions, flush the buffers and caches, stop file I/O operations, or ensure that the application is idle, bringing the […]
Troubleshooting automated pre- and post-scripts for AWS Backup
Customers can use event-driven architectures with decoupled tasks to automate and orchestrate custom scripts for backup jobs. With event-driven architectures, troubleshooting is key to understanding failures at the component levels in order to resolve issues that arise and keep the entire automated workflow running smoothly. In the first post in this two-part blog series, we […]
Synchronize Amazon EC2 instance tags and instance type with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery source servers
When performing disaster recovery, you recover your original systems and IT infrastructure to their original state at an alternate, available site. When you recover your servers, the recovered servers should match the original compute infrastructure to reduce the risk of underprovisioning or overprovisioning your recovery environment. This improves the likelihood that your recovery servers have […]
Using available Amazon EFS security features while migrating files with AWS DataSync
When performing an online data migration, an important requirement is often security in transit. When evaluating migration options, you should consider if the tools available can provide encryption of data in flight, to help prevent unauthorized users from reading your data. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides the ability to encrypt data in transit by […]
Use AWS Backup and CI/CD tools to automate centralized backup across AWS services
Automating and scaling your data protection and backup strategy helps you reduce manual overhead from time-consuming configuration, minimizes the risk for errors, provides visibility on drift detection, and enhances backup policy compliance across distributed AWS workloads or accounts. Incorporating backup in your disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plan (BCP), along with the automation of […]
Protecting your high-performance file systems with Amazon FSx for Lustre
As companies shift high-performance workloads toward cloud solutions, data storage and data protection go side-by-side. Many companies have both internal and external security rules and regulations they must adhere to when storing their data. Amazon FSx for Lustre offers fully managed, scalable file systems for fast-processing workloads, providing secure, shared access to your users. In […]
Building a disaster recovery site on AWS for workloads on Google Cloud (Part 1)
Having a disaster recovery (DR) strategy is an essential part of business continuity and is an important part of designing your workload for resilience. Resilience means that your application, and its supporting infrastructure, always performs its intended functions correctly and consistently over time. In some cases, customers who host their primary workloads on the cloud […]