What's New With AWS Security? | March Edition
Tags: aws, security, cloud
Published: 2024-05-07 17:04:21

## Introduction

It's been a while since I've gotten into the latest and greatest releases for AWS security (It's better late than never).

Feel free to check out the previous articles within this series to get yourself updated on what AWS has been up to in terms of security.

Series: [What's New With AWS Security?](https://dev.to/lahiruhewawasam/series/25596)

Let's get stuck into what happened in the month of March!

## What's New With AWS Security Now? 

Let's take a look at the latest additions to the AWS security services.

**Announcement Date: 03/04/2024**
1. [AWS WAF enhances rate-based rules to support configurable time windows](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/03/aws-waf-rate-based-rules-configurable-time-windows/)

**Announcement Date: 03/06/2024**
1. [Amazon GuardDuty is now available in AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/03/amazon-guardduty-available-aws-canada-west-calgary-region/)

**Announcement Date: 03/07/2024**
1. [AWS X-Ray now supports data events in AWS CloudTrail](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/03/aws-x-ray-data-events-aws-cloudtrail/)

**Announcement Date: 03/08/2024**
1. [AWS WAF now supports larger request body inspections for regional resources](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/03/aws-waf-larger-body-inspections-regional-resources/)
2. [Amazon Cognito is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/03/amazon-cognito-middle-east-uae-region/) 

**Announcement Date: 03/11/2024**
1. [Amazon Verified Permissions increases default quotas for authorization APIs](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/03/amazon-verified-permissions-default-quota-authorization-apis/)

**Announcement Date: 03/12/2024** 
1. [AWS Backup now supports restore testing for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/03/aws-backup-restore-testing-amazon-ebs-snapshots-archive/)

**Announcement Date: 03/14/2024**
1. [Amazon Cognito is now available in Europe (Zurich) Region](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/03/amazon-cognito-europe-zurich-region/) 

**Announcement Date: 03/18/2024** 
1. [AWS Secrets Manager announces support for Amazon Redshift Serverless data warehouse](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/03/aws-secrets-manager-redshift-serverless-data-warehouse/)
2. [AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/03/aws-identity-center-melbourne-region/)

**Announcement Date: 03/25/2024** 
1. [IAM Roles Anywhere now offers credentials that are valid for up to 12 hours](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/03/iam-roles-anywhere-credentials-valid-12-hours/)

**Announcement Date: 03/29/2024** 
1. [Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring is now generally available](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/03/amazon-guardduty-ec2-runtime-monitoring-available/)

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## Noteworthy Updates To Services
Let's take a look at some of the announcements that caught my eye!

**1. AWS Secrets Manager**
AWS Secrets Manager now supports user credential rotation for Amazon Redshift Serverless. Now you can easily create and rotate user credentials and API keys throughout their lifecycle.

These new integrations bring the total count of the AWS Secrets Manager [supported services](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/integrating.html) to more than 50!

**2. Amazon GuardDuty**
Amazon GuardDuty now lets customers monitor and gain visibility into the on-host, operating system–level activities and provides container-level context of detected threats.

This enhances the existing capabilities of GuardDuty which can help detect abnormal and suspicious activities within your AWS accounts and workloads.

## Wrapping Up

There have been some major strides taken by the team at AWS to enhance and stay on top of the security game and I can't wait for what is in store for us in the future.

Within this article, I've highlighted some of the major service announcements and feature introductions that were noteworthy. There may have been some announcements that I didn't cover in this month's announcement, therefore feel free to mention what you think was important in the comment section.

Stay Tuned for the next edition of "What's New With AWS Security"!

Thank you for reading. I hope you found this useful.