CloudWatch

As businesses continue to adopt cloud computing and move their operations to the cloud, it’s crucial to ensure the security of their cloud environment. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud platform, but with the ease of use comes the responsibility of securing the data, applications, and services deployed on the cloud. AWS provides a vast array of security services, but it can be challenging to keep track of all the activities and changes happening in your AWS account. That’s where the AWS Security Survival Kit (ASSK) comes in. This comprehensive and Free Open-Source kit sets up a basic proactive monitoring and alerting environment on common suspicious activities in your AWS account. ...

Are you tired of manually checking your AWS subnets to ensure they’re not approaching free remaining ip limit ? Look no further than Subnet-Watcher, an open-source tool I’ve developed at zoph.io. Subnet-Watcher allows you to automatically check your subnets for a variety of metrics, such as whether they have the correct number of available IP addresses, number of detached ENIs. It also allows you to take action if any of these conditions are not met, such as sending an email notification and automatically record a CloudWatch Metric. ...

Canary What ? In software testing, a canary (also called a canary test) is a push of programming code changes to a small number of end-users who have not volunteered to test anything. The goal of a canary test is to make sure code changes are transparent and work in a real-world environment. Canary tests, which are often automated, are run after testing in a sandbox environment has been completed. Because the canary is only pushed to a small number of users, its impact is relatively small should the new code prove to be buggy and changes can be reversed quickly. ...