Amazon launches new security services in the cloud – Network World Spain

 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced three new services to help companies maintain security, governance and compliance in the cloud resources.
 

 The first AWS Key Management Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy for customers to create and manage the encryption keys used to encrypt data in the AWS cloud. AWS Config, meanwhile, is a fully managed service that gives customers full visibility of their AWS resources and their associated relationships, allowing them to audit the history settings and warns them of the changes in resource configuration. Finally, AWS Service Catalog allows company administrators to select the AWS resources they want their employees to deploy, in what settings, who has access to each of these options, and then makes them visible to your employees through a personalized portal.

 

 The new services complement the offer AWS to gain visibility and control over their resources, including AWS CloudTrail (Logging Service API), Amazon CloudWatch (alarm monitoring service and high grade) and AWS Trusted Advisor (proactive support to customers so that they can be optimized more AWS).

 

  AWS Key Management Service

 AWS Key Management Service allows developers to encrypt the data with a single click in the AWS Management Console, or by using the AWS SDK for adding encryption to your application code. It provides a single place for administrators to create, disable and see the keys, allowing them to define usage policies and establish automatic rotation and reinforced key. AWS Key Management Service also logs all key information used, creating an audit trail in AWS CloudTrail so customers can use it for compliance or regulatory requirements.

 

 The new key management service provides seamless integration with services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and Amazon Redshift, along with a simple SDK for the integration of customer specific applications. Use Hardware Security Modules (HSM) to protect the security of the keys to clients.

 

  AWS Setup

 Config With AWS customers get full visibility of their AWS resources, and relationships between the components of application infrastructure so that they can understand and evaluate the impact of changes to their environment. AWS Config continuously records changes in the configuration attributes of resources AWS customers, such as the configuration of the security group, or the value labels of the Amazon EC2 instances . Administrators get this information in a continuous flow, and can see a full history and review the impact of configuration changes between resources to support the safety analysis, compliance auditing, and troubleshooting efforts. The preview of AWS Setup is now available.

 

  AWS Service Catalog

 AWS Service Catalog allows administrators to create and share product catalogs “architectures that incorporate custom and standard configurations approved by the company. Administrators can use access controls for individual, group, department or cost center, giving precise control over who is authorized to use a given application. With AWS Service Catalog, administrators can set policies that help them meet their requirements, such as limiting the number of times an application can be used in order to maintain compliance with licenses. managers available to those employees approved product catalogs through a self-service web portal. AWS Service Catalog records all use AWS CloudTrail so that managers can review, report and confirm compliance. AWS Service Catalog will be available early 2015.