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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is a high-performance block storage service that allows you to attach persistent storage volumes to your Amazon EC2 instances. While EBS provides a wide range of benefits, it can be a significant contributor to your AWS costs if not managed efficiently. This article outlines some best practices to optimize EBS costs without compromising on performance or reliability.

The complexity and pace of cloud environments result in constant changes that are difficult to monitor and secure. Security teams are inundated with alerts, each requiring thorough investigation to determine if it represents a real threat. This constant vigilance can lead to resource overload, missed threats, and delayed responses. Here’s why CDR is indispensable:

We are thrilled to announce that Stream Security has officially attained the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency status. This prestigious recognition validates our proven technology and expertise in aiding customers to fulfill their cloud security objectives.

Streamline your data security with Stream Security's integration with AWS Macie, offering unparalleled protection for sensitive information. Discover and safeguard your data at scale, effortlessly manage human and non-human access permissions, and ensure compliance through real-time alerts and robust Data Access Policies.

Discover how Amazon Detective enhances security investigations by analyzing AWS log data. This guide covers its features, including interactive visualizations and continuous monitoring, to help detect threats and understand security incidents.

In the ongoing battle between cyber adversaries and defenders, the odds are often stacked against the guardians of digital assets. Defenders face a challenging task – they must secure their systems 100% of the time, while adversaries need only find one vulnerability to breach their defenses. This inherent imbalance presents a significant challenge to the cybersecurity community, where constant vigilance is necessary.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a fully managed relational database service that simplifies the setup, operation, and scaling of databases. While RDS provides numerous benefits, managing costs is crucial to ensure you make the most of the service. This article outlines some best practices for optimizing Amazon RDS costs without compromising performance or reliability.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a fully managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy to run, scale, and secure containerized applications using Kubernetes. However, managing costs while utilizing EKS can be challenging, especially as your organization grows and adds more resources. This article will outline some best practices to help you optimize costs and get the most out of your EKS deployment.

In this article, we will introduce one of the most useful tools that every engineer responsible for the network layer should have in their arsenal: VPC flow logs. Back in the day when private data centers were cool, when we needed to troubleshoot network problems, we had to “tap the wire” and that could take many forms such as installing packet sniffers on various network segments or configuring complicated traffic mirroring options. Enter VPC flow logs! With the cloud and the advent of software defined networks, troubleshooting IP networks has never been easier.

AWS Config offers basic capabilities for change management in small AWS environments but has limitations when it comes to complex and dynamic environments. You can consider Stream Security as a more capable, scalable and cost-effective alternative to AWS Config. Stream Security saves your teams cycles with effective root-cause & impact analysis, prioritized & customizable rules and real-time capabilities with runtime events. You can gain these benefits in a predictable and cost-effective way.

Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that uses machine learning and other techniques to identify malicious activity and unauthorized behavior in your AWS accounts and workloads. It integrates with other AWS security services to provide a comprehensive view of your security posture and helps Security, DevOps, Compliance and Incident response teams to quickly respond to security threats.

Explore how Stream Security can help you gain control over existing cross account connections and design risk free configuration changes...