Cloud Security News this week 2 December 2021

• AWS has launched some improvements to a few of their existing services and no new Security service has been announced yet. With Google Cloud announcing their CyberSecurity Action team earlier this year, we were hoping for a similar response or better from AWS but nothing so far.
• Updates to AWS Shield, Amazon Cloud Guru and Amazon Inspector. 
• For those storing CloudTrail logs or other important logs to help with  incident response in S3 buckets, you can now use EventBridge to build applications that react quickly and efficiently to changes in your S3 objects. This will deliver responses to potential Events/incidents of interest in a  faster, more reliable, and in a more developer-friendly way than ever. More on this here
• If you use AWS Control Tower and care about Data Residency, now you will be able to apply Preventive and detective controls that prevent provisioning resources in unwanted AWS Regions by restricting access to AWS APIs through service control policies (SCPs) built and managed by AWS Control Tower. This means that content cannot be created or transferred outside of your selected Regions at the infrastructure level. More on this here
• They have announced Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM), a new feature that provides network administrators with an automated IP management workflow.making it easier to organize, assign, monitor, and audit IP addresses in at-scale networks. More on this here
• new feature.” Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer. In contrast to manual checking of network configurations, which is error-prone and hard to scale, this tool lets you analyze your AWS networks of any size and complexity. You can get started with a set of Amazon-created scopes, and then either copy & customize them, or create your own from scratch. More on this here
• A new Amazon S3 Object Ownership setting  and the Amazon S3 console policy editor. More on the

Episode Show Notes on Cloud Security Podcast Website.

Podcast Twitter - Cloud Security Podcast (@CloudSecPod)

Instagram - Cloud Security News 

If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes, check out:

- Cloud Security Podcast:

- Cloud Security Academy: