8 verified briefings on AWS. Each story includes a plain-English summary, why it matters, and the concrete action engineering teams should take.
AWS has launched a new version of its Resilience Hub, a service for managing application availability. The update introduces generative AI to analyze potential system failures, along with new tools for dependency discovery, modular policies, and organization-wide reporting to help teams improve system reliability.
AWS is enhancing its AI-powered service, AWS Transform, which helps modernize legacy applications. A new feature, AWS Transform custom, now allows organizations to create their own rules to automate code upgrades, framework migrations, and performance optimizations at scale, tailored to their specific needs.
A CISA contractor exposed highly sensitive credentials on a public GitHub repository. The leak included access keys to AWS GovCloud accounts and internal CISA systems, along with details on the agency's internal software development and deployment processes, marking a significant government data breach.
A standard, cached AWS access key on a single machine, without any misconfiguration, can provide an attacker with extensive access to a company's cloud environment. This highlights how normal operational behavior can inadvertently create significant security vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure.
A contractor's public GitHub repository accidentally exposed sensitive credentials. The leak included access keys for US government AWS accounts and internal systems for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). A researcher from GitGuardian discovered the exposure, which was then reported by security journalist Brian Krebs.
A government contractor's public GitHub repository accidentally exposed credentials for US government AWS accounts and internal CISA systems. The leak, discovered by a security researcher, included sensitive access keys found within the repository's commit history and developer notes, highlighting significant security risks.
Generative AI media platform fal has named AWS its preferred cloud provider. The partnership aims to address the significant infrastructure and compute demands required for real-time AI media generation, supporting fal's 2.5 million developer users and simplifying GPU management.
A CISA contractor exposed highly privileged AWS GovCloud credentials and internal system details in a public GitHub repository. Security experts call it a major government data leak, revealing sensitive information about how the agency builds, tests, and deploys its internal software systems, posing a significant security risk.