AWS re:Invent 2014

Have you wondered how you can use your corporate directory for accessing AWS? Or how you can build an AWS-powered application accessible to the millions of users from social identity providers like Amazon, Google, or Facebook? If so, this session will give you the tools you need to get started. It will provide a variety of examples to make it easier for you to use other identity pools with AWS, as well as cover open standards like Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). Anyone who deals with external identities won't want to miss this session.

Do you need to know who made an API call? What resources were acted upon in an API call? Do you need to find the source IP address of an API call? AWS CloudTrail helps you answer these questions. In this session we review the basics of CloudTrail and then dive into CloudTrail features. We demo solutions that you can use to analyze API activity recorded and delivered by CloudTrail. Join us if you are interested in security or compliance and how you can architect, build, and maintain compliant applications on AWS.

Navigating Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance on AWS can be easier than in a traditional data center. This session discusses how PaymentSpring implemented a PCI level-1 certified payment gateway running entirely on AWS. PaymentSpring will talk about how they designed the system to make PCI validation easier, what AWS provided, and what additional tools PaymentSpring added. Along the way, they'll cover some things they did to reduce costs and increase the overall security of the system.

Amazon Web Services IAM has a cohesive set of features, including authentication, service and resource authorization, and privilege delegation. But how does AWS IAM interact with an organization's external identity management framework? In this session, we will look at the identity disciplines, including authorization, identity governance and administration (IGA), provisioning, authentication and single sign-on-and their associated standards like XACML, SCIM, SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and FIDO. We will specify how these externalized identity functions can be integrated with AWS to deliver a cohesive organizational identity management framework. We will also cover real-world deployments of externalized identity systems with AWS.

AWS Config is a new cross-resource service that allows you to discover new resources, how they're configured, and how these configurations changed over time. The service defines and captures relationships an dependencies between resources, helping you determine if a change to one resource affects other resources.

If your business runs entirely on AWS, your AWS account is one of your most critical assets. Just as you might run an intrusion detection system in your on-premises network, you should monitor activity in your AWS account to detect abnormal behavior. This session walks you through leveraging unique capabilities in AWS that you can use to detect and respond to changes in your environment.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles are powerful primitives you can use to build applications that can access a broad range of data without collecting databases of credentials. This session explains how to model applications that are granted access to large numbers of AWS accounts through the use of IAM roles. It covers advanced role permission modeling and sample implementations.

You've employed the practices outlined for incident detection, but what do you do when you detect an incident in the cloud? This session walks you through a hypothetical incident response on AWS. Learn to leverage the unique capabilities of the AWS environment when you respond to an incident, which in many ways is similar to how you respond to incidents in your own infrastructure. This session also covers specific environment recovery steps available on AWS.

If you're trying to figure out how to run enterprise applications and services on AWS securely, come join Intuit and the AWS Professional Services team to learn how to embrace a new discipline called DevSecOps. You'll learn more about software-defined security and why we think that DevSecOps helps organizations large and small adopt cloud services at a rapid pace. We'll provide you with links and information to help you get started with creating your own DevSecOps team.

In addition to running databases in Amazon EC2, AWS customers can choose among a variety of managed database services. These services save effort, save time, and unlock new capabilities and economies. In this session, we make it easy to understand how they differ, what they have in common, and how to choose one or more. We explain the fundamentals of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service; Amazon RDS, a relational database service in the cloud; Amazon ElastiCache, a fast, in-memory caching service in the cloud; and Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data-warehouse solution that can be surprisingly economical. We'll cover how each service might help support your application, how much each service costs, and how to get started.