Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

Now, Amazon Cloud Directory makes it easier than ever for you to rapidly develop applications by using Managed Schema. You can create a directory and start creating and retrieving objects from it at a faster pace by using the managed schema. With this launch, we are making available one Cloud Directory Managed Schema, called QuickStartSchema. […]

A common request that we get from customers is how to protect their resources from an accidental or malicious deletion, such as instances, snapshots, clusters, and so on. Doing this is especially important when you are using a common AWS account for multiple users or teams. Although you want the flexibility to innovate within the […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) enables you to use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage database access for Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instances and Amazon Aurora MySQL DB clusters. Database administrators can associate database users with IAM users and roles. By using IAM, you can manage user access to all […]

This blog post walks you through how to securely encrypt a Microsoft SQL Server backup file and restore the encrypted backup to an Amazon RDS for SQL Server instance. You perform this process using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). This post details the encryption and steps required […]