AWS Security Digest

Issue #128

Monday · October 30, 2023

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Today is the last issue of the season for 💌 AWS Security Digest Newsletter. See you in September! 🌴

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📋 Chef's selections

  1. Cedar-py: Python bindings for the Cedar Policy project
  2. Adaptive Authorization: The Next Frontier in Cloud Security
  3. How To Monitor AWS IAM Root Users At Scale: Best Practices

🍛 Reddit threads on r/aws

🍪 API changes

Amazon SageMaker Service - 1 new 1 updated methods
Cross account support for SageMaker Feature Store

Amazon Security Lake - 3 new 2 updated methods
Adding support for Tags on Create and Resource Tagging API.

AWS Resource Access Manager - 3 updated methods
This release adds support for securely sharing with AWS service principals.

AWS Systems Manager for SAP - 1 new 6 updated methods
Added support for SAP Hana High Availability discovery (primary and secondary nodes) and Backint agent installation with SSM for SAP.

AWS WAFV2 - 8 updated methods
Added the URI path to the custom aggregation keys that you can specify for a rate-based rule.

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