Overview
Cloud Certainty Secure Browser: 3-minute demo
Architecture, a live isolated session, admin policy controls, use cases and pricing. Remote browser isolation that runs in your own AWS account and reaches private apps without a VPN.
Cloud Certainty Secure Browser: 3-minute demo
Runs entirely inside your AWS account
Admin policy controls per user and group
Zero trust, private apps without a VPN
Cloud Certainty Secure Browser is an in-account alternative to Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser, which stops accepting new customers. It gives your workforce, contractors and third parties secure access to internal web applications and the internet without exposing devices or networks. Web content runs in a disposable Chromium session in your own AWS account and is streamed to the user as pixels. Nothing executes on the endpoint, and no data reaches it unless your policy allows.
Everything runs in your AWS account and VPC. One CloudFormation stack deploys a serverless control plane and an admin portal that users sign in to through AWS IAM Identity Center or any SAML 2.0 or OIDC identity provider. Each session is a single-use container that accepts no inbound network connections. It is created when the user clicks Start and destroyed when they finish, go idle or hit the maximum session length. Media is end-to-end encrypted and relayed through managed TURN, so no public IPs or load balancers are needed. Sessions can reach private applications in your VPC, so users do not need a VPN.
Administrators define policy profiles per user or group: clipboard copy and paste in each direction; file upload and download with a size limit; printing; URL allowlists and blocklists, homepage and bookmarks; developer tools, extensions and incognito mode; idle, disconnect and maximum session timeouts; and an IP allowlist for the portal. Every session and configuration change is recorded in an audit log in your account.
Pricing: pay as you go at 5.00 USD per active user per month plus 0.002 USD per minute of session time (about 0.12 USD per hour, billed per minute), or a flat Team plan (up to 50 users) or Business plan (up to 250 users) with unlimited session time; each further user above a plan is 5.00 USD a month. A plan covers one deployment (one CloudFormation stack); each deployment meters on its own. Plans are available monthly, chosen in the admin portal, or as a yearly contract with two months free: buy one unit of one plan per deployment (a deployment uses only its highest plan, and further units or plans are not used). You also pay for the AWS infrastructure the sessions use in your account; when nobody is browsing, that cost is close to zero.
Highlights
- In-account alternative to Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser: sessions, browsing data and audit logs stay in your VPC. Deploy with one CloudFormation stack and sign in through IAM Identity Center, SAML or OIDC.
- Zero trust by design: one ephemeral container per session with zero inbound network access, end-to-end encrypted streaming, least-privilege IAM, and automatic destruction at the end of each session.
- Flexible pricing: pay as you go per active user and per minute of session time, or a flat monthly Team or Business plan with unlimited usage, monthly or as a yearly contract.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/unit |
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Active users | Per user who starts at least one session in the month. Pay as you go. | $5.00 |
Session minute | Per minute of browser session time (about $0.12 per hour). Pay as you go. | $0.002 |
Team plan | Billed once a month per deployment. Up to 50 active users, unlimited session time. | $250.00 |
Business plan | Billed once a month per deployment. Up to 250 active users, unlimited session time. | $1,000.00 |
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Billed through AWS Marketplace by active user, session minute and plan. For a billing question contact info@cloudcertainty.com within 30 days of the charge and we will investigate with AWS Marketplace.
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Amazon ECS (Fargate) via AWS CloudFormation
- Amazon ECS
Container image
Containers are lightweight, portable execution environments that wrap server application software in a filesystem that includes everything it needs to run. Container applications run on supported container runtimes and orchestration services, such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Both eliminate the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software by managing and scheduling containers on a scalable cluster of virtual machines.
Version release notes
Sign-in through Cloud Certainty Hub and OIDC installs again; Chromium 156 security update. Release notes: https://cloudcertainty.com/secure-browser/releases/0.4.1 Upgrade: update the stack with the 0.4.1 template URL and keep the current parameter values.
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Usage instructions
Documentation: https://cloudcertainty.com/secure-browser/docs/getting-started/
Prerequisites: a VPC with private subnets that have outbound internet access (for example through a NAT gateway), in an AWS Region that offers Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC, Amplify Hosting and Amazon Cognito.
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Launch the stack with this link. It opens AWS CloudFormation with the template already selected; check the Region in the console's top bar before you create the stack: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/home#/stacks/quickcreate?templateURL=https://cloudcertainty-secure-browser-us-east-1.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/0.4.1/main.yaml&stackName=secure-browser The template URL, the same for every Region, is: https://cloudcertainty-secure-browser-us-east-1.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/0.4.1/main.yaml Terraform users can deploy the same template with the module cloudcertainty/secure-browser/aws, version 0.4.1.
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Set VpcId, TaskSubnetIds, BootstrapAdminEmail and IdentityProvider (IAMIdentityCenter, SAML, OIDC or CognitoOnly). Acknowledge that the stack creates IAM resources with custom names. Creation takes about 10 minutes. During creation a one-time installer task from this container image copies the application into a private S3 bucket in your account.
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Identity provider:
- IAM Identity Center or SAML: create a custom SAML 2.0 application using the SamlAcsUrl and SamlAudienceUri stack outputs, assign users or groups, then update the stack and set SamlMetadataUrl to the application's SAML metadata URL.
- OIDC: store the client secret in AWS Secrets Manager and set OidcIssuer, OidcClientId and OidcClientSecretArn. Register https://<CognitoDomain output>/oauth2/idpresponse as the redirect URI.
- CognitoOnly: the bootstrap admin receives an invitation email.
- Open the PortalUrl stack output, sign in as the bootstrap admin, set policies under Admin, and start a secure browser session.
Billing: pay as you go per active user a month and per minute of browser session time, or a flat Team (up to 50 users) or Business (up to 250 users) plan per deployment (one CloudFormation stack), monthly or as a yearly contract (buy one unit of one plan per deployment; further units or plans are not used). On a plan, users above its limit are billed as extra users. Choose the plan in the admin portal under Settings, Billing plan; a yearly contract is detected automatically. The stack reads its AWS Marketplace agreement (us-east-1) to find a contract. The AWS infrastructure the stack uses (Fargate, Kinesis Video Streams, Lambda, and so on) is billed to your account separately.
Upgrades: update the stack with the new version's template URL and keep the current parameter values. The admin console shows when a new version is available.
Support: info@cloudcertainty.com
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Email: info@cloudcertainty.com . Website: https://cloudcertainty.com/secure-browser/ Documentation: https://cloudcertainty.com/secure-browser/docs/getting-started/ Basic support is included: best-effort email help with deployment, identity provider integration, billing plans and production issues, plus release and security notices. Upgrades are delivered as new versions on AWS Marketplace and applied with a CloudFormation stack update. Paid support plans with response-time commitments (Standard, Business and Enterprise) and optional installation and WorkSpaces Secure Browser migration services are available:
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