A misconfigured data bucket in AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) led to a Republican contractor’s database of nearly every voter being left exposed on the Internet for 12 days, according to CRN. This news presents an unfortunate reminder of why good AWS security hygiene is important to designing, building and managing AWS environments. In this spirit, we’d like to explore two basic AWS best practices that when built-in can help stave off extreme events like this.

Jul 7, 2017 11:31:00 AM Flux7 Labs Configuration Management, Security Identity and Compliance, AWS Tips and Tricks, AWS IAM, Amazon S3, AWS Config/Rules
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As AWS experts we work closely with organizations who handle a wide variety of sensitive information – from patient health records to credit card data and more. Resultantly, we are always on the look-out for technology and best practice-based improvements to ensuring cloud-based security. With more and more of our clients looking to embrace a microservices architecture, cloud security and compliance naturally didn’t stop being a focus which is why we are happy at the news from AWS today that they’ve addressed how to help secure container-enabled applications with IAM Roles for ECS tasks.
Jul 15, 2016 9:00:00 AM Flux7 Labs Healthcare and Life Sciences, Security Identity and Compliance, Compute, Developer Tools and Processes, HashiCorp, AWS ECS, AWS IAM, Amazon S3
Read More »This is part 1 of the AWS Autoscaling Tutorial for LAMP in AWS series. This autoscaling step-by-step guide would walk you through:
Jan 13, 2014 2:29:05 AM Flux7 Labs Compute, Amazon RDS, AWS ELB, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudWatch, Autoscaling
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