Category: Foundational (100)

  Installing a web application firewall (WAF) in your virtual private cloud (VPC) protects your applications against sophisticated threats. Possible threats include Structure Query Language (SQL) injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), malware uploads, and application Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Installing a WAF can improve overall application performance while mitigating risks. Most WAFs include built-in […]

by guest author James Carden, Solution Architect, TCS The TCS Connected Intelligence Data Lake for Business (CIDL) is a self-serve data lake platform that helps business and IT teams turn raw data into insights. In this blog post, I will describe the steps to subscribe to, install, and test CIDL. Prerequisites Log in to your […]

The term “endpoints” usually refers to user devices, such as laptops and servers. Cloud-based endpoints, however, include more than just the device: databases, instances, services, and applications. As endpoints have changed, endpoint security has expanded from a simple antivirus solution to an integrated set of advanced visibility and security features. Endpoint security solutions now offer […]

Firewalls provide a security layer by giving you control over which traffic you allow to access your web applications. Web Appliction Firewalls such as AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) do this by allowing you to customize web security rules to define which traffic can access your applications and which traffic should be blocked. While […]

AWS Marketplace recently announced availability in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region and AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co., Ltd. (NWCD). With this launch, customers in China now can browse and discover popular software from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) from the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) console and provision […]

In this post, I will share a recent story about how a customer successfully migrated critical applications to the AWS Cloud to provide reliable, continuous access to data. D2L is a Canadian learning company founded in 1999. It offers web-based applications to its customers, who are primarily people searching for new ways to learn online. […]

In this post, I will show how Starling Bank scaled its DevOps pipeline using Genymotion from AWS Marketplace. Starling Bank is a mobile-only bank based in the UK. With no branches or ATMs, its mobile app is the center of the company’s business. Starling Bank regularly maintains and improves its app, with a long history […]