Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a multitude of improved safety capacities designed to strengthen cyber-resilience applications and secure generative artificial intelligence applications (GENAI). The services, announced at the recent AWS RE: Inforce conference, aim to simplify large -scale security management and to protect AI innovations against emerging threats.
Bryce Boland, head of security for security solution for AWS in Asia-Pacific and Japan, said that new features respond directly to customer concerns. “Almost all companies are now entering the phase where they have to take advantage of AI and stimulate the commercial value of this technology,” he said. “Our customers are looking for us to help support their growth and do so safely.”
Key announcements include major AWS basic safety portfolio updates. A new version of AWS Security Hub, now in preview, acts as a central command center, giving safety teams a unique and unified view to prioritize critical security problems throughout their AWS environment.
“I think customers who take advantage of the new AWS security center are likely to see the biggest impact on their operations,” said Boland, adding that a unified view facilitates it and the response to large -scale critical problems.
Also in preview, AWS Shield Network Security Director, a tool designed to provide network engineers with a familiar topology card for their cloud resources. It automates the discovery of network assets and helps to identify configuration errors or shortcomings in safety controls, simplifying network security management.
For container safety, Amazon Guardduty has expanded its threat detection capacities to include monitoring of execution for the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes service (EKS). The update allows the detection of threats to the container level, allowing customers to identify complex attacks, such as those of crypto exploration groups, in their containerized infrastructure.
Although the new capacity Guardduty adds an essential safety layer for Kubernetes users, customers will be eager to see performance references to ensure that production workloads are not negatively affected. AWS has refused to share metrics for specific general performance costs, although Boland said that it “works similarly to other similar solutions”.
For developers, Amazon Inspector Code Security has been updated to integrate directly into third -party standards such as Github and Gitlab. Boland said the service now uses Genai, trained in AWS’s own safety practices, to provide developers with direct recommendations to improve applications safety within their DevSecops workflows.
Boland underlined that these tools have been developed to respond to coherent requests from Customers of Resilience, Security and Profitable Advice on the creation of secure Genai applications. To this end, he said that AWS builds safety in each layer of his AI battery generation. It starts at the material level with the AWS Nitro systemwhich protects the physical infrastructure used for the formation of models through Confidential IT.
In the intermediate layer, services like Amazon kettle Functional tools such as railings, which can filter harmful content and guarantee that outings adhere to business policies. Boland said that Super-App Grab, Southeast Asia, is already using railing to meet its safety needs on all critical products. To the application layer, tools such as Amazon Q developer Act as an assistant fed by AI to help developers create code and deploy applications safely.
Addressing the threat of cybercriminals using AI, Boland has recognized its existence but argued that the advantage currently lies in defenders. “The security teams taking advantage of AI tools in their processes obtain a significant advantage in terms of operating speed, the capacity to respond and deploy large-scale security changes,” he said.
Ransomware remains the main security concern for customers in the region, according to Boland. He noted that many exploit the resilience of the AWS cloud to protect itself, using features such as immutable backups which cannot be modified even if an attacker earns administrative access.
In the end, Boland noted that the greatest cybersecurity challenge is not necessarily of a technical nature. “Obtaining the right security resources is still a challenge,” he said. “AWS tries to take up this challenge by creating tools that allow our customers to effectively secure their large -scale environment.”
