AWS Extends Reach of Authentication Service to Include Support for Passkeys
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its authentication service to make it simpler for software engineering teams to eliminate passwords.
Boost Your Productivity with awscurl: Simplifying IAM-Secured API Testing in AWS
Xebia
DECEMBER 21, 2024
When you use AWS, you can interact with it through the console, sdk, or cli. These APIs are protected, and how authentication and authorization are done through the service IAM. Enabling IAM authentication on the methods you define is easy. But these security controls can also block you from being productive!
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AWS brings Amazon One palm-scanning authentication to the enterprise
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary AWS (Amazon Web Services) has lifted the lid on a new palm-scanning identity service that allows companies to authenticate people when entering physical premises. Amazon One Enterprise, as the […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
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Cross-Stack RDS User Provisioning and Schema Migrations with AWS Lambda
Xebia
MARCH 4, 2025
However, other databases like MySQL also have an internal authentication method. Use identity and access management (AWS IAM). You can compare these credentials with the root credentials of a Linux system or the root account for your AWS account. Use the credentials that you created at deployment time.
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Build and deploy a UI for your generative AI applications with AWS and Python
AWS Machine Learning - AI
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
AWS provides a powerful set of tools and services that simplify the process of building and deploying generative AI applications, even for those with limited experience in frontend and backend development. The AWS deployment architecture makes sure the Python application is hosted and accessible from the internet to authenticated users.
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Accelerate AWS Well-Architected reviews with Generative AI
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MARCH 4, 2025
To achieve these goals, the AWS Well-Architected Framework provides comprehensive guidance for building and improving cloud architectures. This allows teams to focus more on implementing improvements and optimizing AWS infrastructure. This systematic approach leads to more reliable and standardized evaluations.
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Transcribe, translate, and summarize live streams in your browser with AWS AI and generative AI services
AWS Machine Learning - AI
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Recognizing this need, we have developed a Chrome extension that harnesses the power of AWS AI and generative AI services, including Amazon Bedrock , an AWS managed service to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models (FMs). Authentication is performed against the Amazon Cognito user pool.
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How AWS sales uses Amazon Q Business for customer engagement
AWS Machine Learning - AI
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Earlier this year, we published the first in a series of posts about how AWS is transforming our seller and customer journeys using generative AI. Field Advisor serves four primary use cases: AWS-specific knowledge search With Amazon Q Business, weve made internal data sources as well as public AWS content available in Field Advisors index.
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WordFinder app: Harnessing generative AI on AWS for aphasia communication
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MAY 2, 2025
David Copland, from QARC, and Scott Harding, a person living with aphasia, used AWS services to develop WordFinder, a mobile, cloud-based solution that helps individuals with aphasia increase their independence through the use of AWS generative AI technology. The following diagram illustrates the solution architecture on AWS.
Build a multi-tenant generative AI environment for your enterprise on AWS
AWS Machine Learning - AI
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
It also uses a number of other AWS services such as Amazon API Gateway , AWS Lambda , and Amazon SageMaker. It contains services used to onboard, manage, and operate the environment, for example, to onboard and off-board tenants, users, and models, assign quotas to different tenants, and authentication and authorization microservices.
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Using Amazon Q Business with AWS HealthScribe to gain insights from patient consultations
AWS Machine Learning - AI
OCTOBER 17, 2024
During re:Invent 2023, we launched AWS HealthScribe , a HIPAA eligible service that empowers healthcare software vendors to build their clinical applications to use speech recognition and generative AI to automatically create preliminary clinician documentation. AWS HealthScribe will then output two files which are also stored on Amazon S3.
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Enabling AWS IAM DB Authentication
Perficient
DECEMBER 23, 2024
IAM Database Authentication lets you log in to your Amazon RDS database using your IAM credentials. Objective: IAM DB Authentication improves security, enables centralized user management, supports auditing, and ensures scalability for database access. Let’s look at how to set it up and use it effectively.
Deploy Meta Llama 3.1-8B on AWS Inferentia using Amazon EKS and vLLM
AWS Machine Learning - AI
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia based instances, combined with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), provide a performant and low cost framework to run LLMs efficiently in a containerized environment. Adjust the following configuration to suit your needs, such as the Amazon EKS version, cluster name, and AWS Region.
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PEFT fine tuning of Llama 3 on SageMaker HyperPod with AWS Trainium
AWS Machine Learning - AI
DECEMBER 24, 2024
To simplify infrastructure setup and accelerate distributed training, AWS introduced Amazon SageMaker HyperPod in late 2023. In this blog post, we showcase how you can perform efficient supervised fine tuning for a Meta Llama 3 model using PEFT on AWS Trainium with SageMaker HyperPod. architectures/5.sagemaker-hyperpod/LifecycleScripts/base-config/
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Build a reverse image search engine with Amazon Titan Multimodal Embeddings in Amazon Bedrock and AWS managed services
AWS Machine Learning - AI
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Prerequisites To implement the proposed solution, make sure that you have the following: An AWS account and a working knowledge of FMs, Amazon Bedrock , Amazon SageMaker , Amazon OpenSearch Service , Amazon S3 , and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Amazon Titan Multimodal Embeddings model access in Amazon Bedrock.
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Web3Auth secures $13M from Sequoia India to simplify crypto onboarding and authentication
TechCrunch
JANUARY 12, 2022
Web3Auth builds on this infrastructure to make Web3 authentication — including password-less auth, SMS auth, or other OAuth methods like Google, Twitter, Discord and Reddit – in apps and wallets simple and intuitive to use. authentication space. authentication space. “We Image Credits: Web3Auth.
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Create a generative AI–powered custom Google Chat application using Amazon Bedrock
AWS Machine Learning - AI
OCTOBER 31, 2024
AWS offers powerful generative AI services , including Amazon Bedrock , which allows organizations to create tailored use cases such as AI chat-based assistants that give answers based on knowledge contained in the customers’ documents, and much more. The following figure illustrates the high-level design of the solution.
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AWS ClientVPN SAML-based authentication via Tools4ever HelloID
Xebia
AUGUST 10, 2023
Extensive documentation exists for implementing SAML-based authentication for AWS Client VPN through IDPs like Okta and Azure AD, but if you or your customers happen to use a different IDP – documentation is hard to come by. Towards the end of this article we take a look at authorization rules as implemented by AWS Client VPN.
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Securing S3 Downloads with ALB and Cognito Authentication
Xebia
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
For this, you will need authentication and authorization. Authentication vs Authorization Authentication is all about identifying who you are. AWS has a service called Cognito that allows you to manage a pool of users. After the user has logged a redirect, the user is now authenticated.
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Responsible AI in action: How Data Reply red teaming supports generative AI safety on AWS
AWS Machine Learning - AI
APRIL 29, 2025
At Data Reply and AWS, we are committed to helping organizations embrace the transformative opportunities generative AI presents, while fostering the safe, responsible, and trustworthy development of AI systems. Post-authentication, users access the UI Layer, a gateway to the Red Teaming Playground built on AWS Amplify and React.
How to: Deploy Terraform to AWS with GitHub Actions authenticated with OpenID Connect
Xebia
MAY 15, 2023
In the past it was very common to use AWS credentials (access token and secret) in your GitHub actions pipeline. This poses a security risk because most of the time these AWS credentials are long-lived credentials with a lot of permissions. If these credentials get leaked or misused the damage done could be huge.
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Jeff Bezos’ investment fund is backing a startup hoping to be the AWS for SMB accounting
TechCrunch
MARCH 27, 2021
Bezos Expeditions — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ personal investment fund — and Whale Rock Capital (a $10 billion hedge fund) co-led the round, which also included participation from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Authentic Ventures and others. . Ironically, Pilot says it aspires to the “AWS of SMB backoffice.” (In
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Automate actions across enterprise applications using Amazon Q Business plugins
AWS Machine Learning - AI
DECEMBER 10, 2024
authentication , for AWS Secrets Manager secret , select Create and add a new secret or Use an existing one. For this example, we create a new AWS Secrets Manager secrets). In the Create new AWS Secrets Manager secret pop-up, enter the following information: For Secret name , enter a name for your secret. Under OAuth 2.0
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ApatchMe - Authenticated Stored XSS Vulnerability in AWS and GCP Apache Airflow Services
Tenable
NOVEMBER 4, 2023
Unpatched Apache Airflow instances used in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) allow an exploitable stored XSS through the task instance details page. However, the managed services provided by AWS and GCP were utilizing an outdated, unpatched version. We thank AWS and GCP for their cooperation and quick response.
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Unleash the power of generative AI with Amazon Q Business: How CCoEs can scale cloud governance best practices and drive innovation
AWS Machine Learning - AI
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
The challenge: Enabling self-service cloud governance at scale Hearst undertook a comprehensive governance transformation for their Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. The CCoE implemented AWS Organizations across a substantial number of business units. About the Authors Steven Craig is a Sr. Director, Cloud Center of Excellence.
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Amazon Q Business simplifies integration of enterprise knowledge bases at scale
AWS Machine Learning - AI
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Enhancing AWS Support Engineering efficiency The AWS Support Engineering team faced the daunting task of manually sifting through numerous tools, internal sources, and AWS public documentation to find solutions for customer inquiries. Then we introduce the solution deployment using three AWS CloudFormation templates.
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Ducklake: A journey to integrate DuckDB with Unity Catalog
Xebia
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Unity Catalog Authentication : At the time of initial development we used Unity Catalog 0.1.0. Moving to the Cloud (AWS) With the local setup complete, we’re ready to explore cloud deployment options. In the next post, we’ll look into setting up Ducklake in AWS. In addition, we show our local setup using Docker Compose.
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Using IAM Authentication for Redis on AWS
Dzone - DevOps
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis has supported username/password-based authentication using Access Control Lists since the very beginning. But you can also use IAM-based authentication that allows you to associate IAM users and roles with MemoryDB users so that applications can use IAM credentials to authenticate to the MemoryDB cluster.
Create generative AI agents that interact with your companies’ systems in a few clicks using Amazon Bedrock in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MARCH 20, 2025
Users can access these AI capabilities through their organizations single sign-on (SSO), collaborate with team members, and refine AI applications without needing AWS Management Console access. The workflow is as follows: The user logs into SageMaker Unified Studio using their organizations SSO from AWS IAM Identity Center.
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Getting started with computer use in Amazon Bedrock Agents
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MARCH 14, 2025
The computer use agent demo powered by Amazon Bedrock Agents provides the following benefits: Secure execution environment Execution of computer use tools in a sandbox environment with limited access to the AWS ecosystem and the web. Prerequisites AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), follow instructions here. Require Python 3.11
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Discover insights from Gmail using the Gmail connector for Amazon Q Business
AWS Machine Learning - AI
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Authentication Before we index the content from Gmail, we need to first establish a secure connection between the Gmail connector for Amazon Q Business with your Google service account. To establish a secure connection, we need to authenticate with the data source. The connector supports authentication using a Google service account.
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Revolutionizing customer service: MaestroQA’s integration with Amazon Bedrock for actionable insight
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MARCH 13, 2025
We discuss the unique challenges MaestroQA overcame and how they use AWS to build new features, drive customer insights, and improve operational inefficiencies. They were also able to use the familiar AWS SDK to quickly and effortlessly integrate Amazon Bedrock into their application. The best is yet to come.
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Using natural language in Amazon Q Business: From searching and creating ServiceNow incidents and knowledge articles to generating insights
AWS Machine Learning - AI
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Prerequisites Before proceeding, make sure that you have the necessary AWS account permissions and services enabled, along with access to a ServiceNow environment with the required privileges for configuration. AWS Have an AWS account with administrative access. For more information, see Setting up for Amazon Q Business.
Integrate foundation models into your code with Amazon Bedrock
AWS Machine Learning - AI
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Prerequisites Before you dive into the integration process, make sure you have the following prerequisites in place: AWS account – You’ll need an AWS account to access and use Amazon Bedrock. You can interact with Amazon Bedrock using AWS SDKs available in Python, Java, Node.js, and more.
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Marsh McLennan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI
CIO
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
As part of MMTech’s unifying strategy, Beswick chose to retire the data centers and form an “enterprisewide architecture organization” with a set of standards and base layers to develop applications and workloads that would run on the cloud, with AWS as the firm’s primary cloud provider.
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Building a virtual meteorologist using Amazon Bedrock Agents
AWS Machine Learning - AI
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
We use various AWS services to deploy a complete solution that you can use to interact with an API providing real-time weather information. The architecture uses Amazon Cognito for user authentication and Amplify as the hosting environment for our front-end application. In this solution, we use Amazon Bedrock Agents.
Extend large language models powered by Amazon SageMaker AI using Model Context Protocol
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MAY 1, 2025
For use cases where you need to customize request routing, add authentication, or integrate with observability tools like Langfuse or Prometheus , FastAPI gives you the flexibility to do so. You can deploy your model or LLM to SageMaker AI hosting services and get an endpoint that can be used for real-time inference.
Build generative AI applications quickly with Amazon Bedrock IDE in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
AWS Machine Learning - AI
DECEMBER 4, 2024
SageMaker Unified Studio combines various AWS services, including Amazon Bedrock , Amazon SageMaker , Amazon Redshift , Amazon Glue , Amazon Athena , and Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) , into a comprehensive data and AI development platform. Navigate to the AWS Secrets Manager console and find the secret -api-keys.
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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization
CIO
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
For instance, Capital One successfully transitioned from mainframe systems to a cloud-first strategy by gradually migrating critical applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). For example, a financial services firm adopted a zero trust security model to ensure that every access request is authenticated and authorized.
The AWS Cloud Migration Checklist Every Business Needs for a Smooth Transition
Mobilunity
DECEMBER 26, 2024
For medium to large businesses with outdated systems or on-premises infrastructure, transitioning to AWS can revolutionize their IT operations and enhance their capacity to respond to evolving market needs. AWS migration isnt just about moving data; it requires careful planning and execution. Need to hire skilled engineers?
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Three Calls To Action for Security On AWS
Xebia
AUGUST 1, 2022
The first week of August was dedicated to re:Inforce, a two-day annual AWS conference where security and encryption announcements take the stage. Kurt Kufeld, Vice President Platform AWS, closed the first keynote with three AWS encryption calls to action. Enable Multi-Factor Authentication. Encrypt everything .
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Three Calls To Action for Encryption On AWS
Xebia
AUGUST 1, 2022
This week in AWS is dedicated to re:Inforce, a two-day annual conference where security and encryption announcements take the stage. Kurt Kufeld, Vice President Platform AWS, closed the first keynote with three AWS encryption calls to action. Enable Multi-Factor Authentication. Encrypt everything .
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Marsh McLellan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI
CIO
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
As part of MMTech’s unifying strategy, Beswick chose to retire the data centers and form an “enterprisewide architecture organization” with a set of standards and base layers to develop applications and workloads that would run on the cloud, with AWS as the firm’s primary cloud provider.
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FloQast builds an AI-powered accounting transformation solution with Anthropic’s Claude 3 on Amazon Bedrock
AWS Machine Learning - AI
APRIL 30, 2025
Because Amazon Bedrock is serverless, you dont have to manage infrastructure to securely integrate and deploy generative AI capabilities into your application, handle spiky traffic patterns, and enable new features like cross-Region inference, which helps provide scalability and reliability across AWS Regions.
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