Secure Your AWS Environment: Best Practices & Strategies for Scalable Infrastructure
From fine-tuning identity and access management (IAM) to scaling as usage grows, there are plenty of operational and security challenges for teams already committed to working in Amazon’s public cloud. Most revolve around managing scalability with multi-region and multi-cloud security. We’ve addressed the specifics of EC2 security and Lambda security. Now we’re looking at AWS […]
Securing AWS Lambda Runtimes: Best Practices and Vulnerabilities
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda runtimes are more than just an execution environment — they shape how applications scale, integrate, and remain secure in a serverless architecture. While developers often view them as technical enablers for event-driven workloads, runtimes come with broader impacts, influencing outcomes like operational agility and security posture. We’ve discussed AWS Lambda […]
Secure Your AWS Containers with Best Practices
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become the de facto platform for running containers. Thanks to its vast array of services like ECS, EKS, and Fargate, AWS simplifies scaling and orchestration to make containerized apps the backbone of modern cloud-native architectures. However, with widespread adoption comes a unique security challenge: managing a highly dynamic, ever-changing attack […]
Securing AWS Lambda: Best Practices & Challenges
AWS (Amazon Web Services) Lambda is a serverless compute service that manages infrastructure so clients can run code in response to events without provisioning servers. Its ephemeral nature means that each instance is stateless and disposed of after execution — but what does that mean for organizational security? We’re talking about best practices and how […]
Understanding AWS Fargate: A Comprehensive Guide
With the wide adoption of containerized applications, there’s an increasing demand for solutions that simplify container management in cloud environments. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Fargate aims to fill this gap by offering a serverless computing platform that streamlines container deployment without requiring developers to manage the underlying infrastructure. While AWS Fargate can make life easier […]
Securing AWS Fargate: Best Practices for Containerized Workloads
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Fargate, a container-as-a-service (CaaS) solution, has simplified container management by transferring infrastructure security to AWS, while customers retain responsibility for security within the container layer — application, data, and container configurations. That division is central to Fargate’s model and is at the core of specialized security practices that will need to […]
Ultimate Guide to AWS EC2 Security Best Practices
Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service – from Amazon Web Services has wide appeal owing to its flexibility to spin up compute power as quickly as a customer’s needs evolve. This popular Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) option lets organizations deploy disparate workloads, from running web apps to DevOps development and testing environments. It also […]