AWS Security: Protecting Data and Workloads in the Cloud

Cloud security is now a key component of business strategy, as multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures have become the norm.
Cloud Computing

How does privileged access security work on AWS and other public clouds?

Bottom line: Amazon’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) centralises identity roles, policies and Config Rules yet doesn’t go far enough to provide a Zero Trust-based approach to Privileged Access ...
Virtualization Review

Creating AWS IAM Policies the Easy Way

The AWS cloud's interface for creating IAM policies has always left a little bit to be desired. Although the interface works, it's a little bit messy and I have heard more than one person say that it ...
Computer Weekly

Warning: AWS IAM behaves differently to directory services

Researchers from Israeli security firm Lightspin have identified an issue with configuring identity and access control services on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that could leave many organisations ...
ITWeb on MSN

AWS hit by global outage

Cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services (AWS) has suffered a global outage that is affecting users. Providing updates on ...
Virtualization Review

Creating an IAM Role for the AWS Fault Injection Simulator

Brien walks through the process of creating an IAM role for the AWS Fault Injection Simulator in order to find out what happens when an EC2 spot instance is interrupted. I recently wrote a blog post ...
CSOonline

ECScape: New AWS ECS flaw lets containers hijack IAM roles without breaking out

Naor Haziz’s discovery shows how a compromised container on EC2-backed ECS tasks can impersonate the ECS agent and steal IAM credentials from other tasks—without host access. At Black Hat USA 2025, ...