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Verify the Safety of the Rust Standard Library

Verify the Safety of the Rust Standard Library

Rust is one of the fastest growing languages around the world. The Rust community has grown into millions of developers, with more products and services relying on Rust. The ergonomics and strong compiler guarantees make Rust an ideal choice for developers. With this growth though, the Rust community has also recognized the unsafety of Rust […]

OCSF Joins the Linux Foundation: Accelerating the Standardization of Cybersecurity Data

OCSF Joins the Linux Foundation: Accelerating the Standardization of Cybersecurity Data

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the need for efficient, standardized ways to manage and analyze security data has never been more critical. Today, we are announcing a significant milestone in our industry’s journey towards this goal: the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) is joining the Linux Foundation. AWS is a founding member and active […]

Introducing kro: Kube Resource Orchestrator

Introducing kro: Kube Resource Orchestrator

Today, we’re excited to release Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro), a new experimental open source project that simplifies and empowers the use of custom APIs and resources with Kubernetes. With kro, you can define complex, multi-resource API extensions for reuse in any Kubernetes cluster. Defining new resource groups with kro is like creating your own custom […]

Enhancing Developer Productivity

Enhancing Developer Productivity: Finch’s Support for Development Containers and the Finch Daemon

In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, containerization has become an essential tool for building and deploying applications. With all the necessary tools and dependencies encapsulated in a container, developers can effortlessly set up and replicate development environments on various machines. The key steps involved in building and running containers typically include: Building container images using […]

Achieving Zero Trust Security on Amazon EKS with Istio

Achieving Zero Trust Security on Amazon EKS with Istio

This is the fourth blog post of our “Istio on EKS” series. In this blog post, we’ll explore how Istio, a powerful service mesh, enables organizations to implement a zero trust security model on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). We will start by understanding how Istio implements peer authentication between microservices by Mutual Transport […]

From Data Chaos to Cohesion: How OCSF is Optimizing Cyber Threat Detection

From Data Chaos to Cohesion: How OCSF is Optimizing Cyber Threat Detection

With the release of version 1.3.0, the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) introduces several enhancements designed to further standardize and help streamline cybersecurity data management. OCSF is a collaborative, open source effort by AWS and leading partners in the cybersecurity industry, which provides a standard schema for common security events, defines versioning criteria to facilitate […]

Diving into OCI Image and Distribution 1.1 support in Amazon ECR

Diving into OCI Image and Distribution 1.1 Support in Amazon ECR

AWS recently announced that Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) now supports version 1.1 of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) Image and Distribution specifications. This latest version includes support for image referrers, as well as significant enhancements for distribution of non-image artifacts. We are excited about this set of new capabilities, which helps customers more […]