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September 12, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. Today, AWS introduced AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS IAM Identity Center), a service that makes it easy for you to centrally manage IAM Identity […]

Define permissions on a resource in order to grant IAM users access to resources in other AWS accounts.

AWS has released a new whitepaper that has been requested by many AWS customers: AWS Policy Perspectives: Data Residency. Data residency is the requirement that all customer content processed and stored in an IT system must remain within a specific country’s borders, and it is one of the foremost concerns of governments that want to […]

Use roles to grant an IAM user access through identity federation (authorization by an external service).

  March 24, 2025: We’ve updated this post to remove an example that referenced an old CA. November 18, 2024: This post was updated to reflect the latest certificate authority information for Amazon issued public certificates. July 11, 2019: The service team has resolved an error that caused customers to see a “Certificate Transparency Required” […]

Follow these best practices for using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to help secure your AWS account and resources.

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At <a href="https://www.datawire.io" target="_blank">Datawire</a>, all of our cloud services are developed and deployed on Kubernetes. When we started developing services, we noticed that getting code changes into Kubernetes was a fairly tedious process. Typically, we had to:

In this post, we'll demonstrate querying the Amazon Redshift audit data logged in S3 to provide answers to common use cases described preceding.

The following 20 pages were the most viewed AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) documentation pages in 2017. I have included a brief description with each link to explain what each page covers. Use this list to see what other AWS customers have been viewing and perhaps to pique your own interest in a topic you’ve […]

July 24, 2020: The number 9 item in this list, the Auditing Security Checklist, has been replaced by a Cloud Audit Academy course. The following list includes the ten most downloaded AWS security and compliance documents in 2017. Using this list, you can learn about what other AWS customers found most interesting about security and […]

Recently I was doing an assessment in a locked down and restricted environment. One of the first actions you tend to do when landing a shell on a [linux] box is to do some reconnaissance. This is both on host and network, as you want to determine what new access this host has given you. Normally you would run netstat, ifconfig, ip route etc to determine if the compromised host is connected to any other hosts and to determine if there are other network segments you do not know about.