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Today, we are pleased to announce that Aqua Security has achieved the Security Competency in the Compliance and Privacy category in the relaunch of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency. This designation recognizes that the Aqua Cloud Native Protection Platform (CNAPP) has demonstrated proven technology and deep expertise in helping customers achieve their cloud …

With the release of Amazon EKS Anywhere (EKS-A) Bare Metal, Amazon Web Services has expanded the choices of infrastructure to deploy EKS Anywhere clusters using on-premise bare metal servers as a deployment target. In support of this, Aqua has worked to ensure that as customers adopt EKS Anywhere to automate Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management for …

Aqua Security’s open source project Trivy now includes scanning of AWS CloudFormation templates to help developers better identify and remediate security issues within infrastructure as code (IaC) templates. Building on the technology and rule sets behind our popular open source project tfsec, Trivy now allows developers to evaluate AWS CloudFormation code, either locally or within …

Moving at the pace of innovation in cloud native infrastructure, Aqua is announcing container security support for the AWS Fargate serverless service now running on Amazon Graviton2 processors. The support for Fargate on Graviton2 container protection, security, and compliance builds on our existing workload protection for Amazon EC2 VMs on Graviton2.

Many companies, in an effort to modernize their software and cloud tech stacks, are beginning to confront the challenges of managing security across multiple cross-functional, yet independent, teams – each with diverse tech stacks. One such example is Thoughtworks, a leading global technology consultancy that works with enterprises to enable them to keep pace with …

Digital transformation is fundamentally changing how organizations compete and engage with customers, even redefining traditional labor-intensive industries. A great example of this is Forum Engineering, a staffing company from Japan, which developed an AI-based Software-as-a-Service solution to stay ahead of the competition. The challenges of securing this innovative offering required a platform that can protect …

The availability of AWS CloudFormation Public Registry makes it possible to manage Aqua components using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) workflows just as easily as AWS resource types. You can now seamlessly automate how you deploy and update Aqua as native resource types across multiple accounts and regions.

Today, AWS announced the general availability of ECS Anywhere; a simple but powerful extension of AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) to manage containers wherever they run – Aqua has been working closely with AWS to deliver a unified security experience for ECS Anywhere so enterprises can embrace the cloud native deployment models that make the …

Aqua has been securing Amazon ECS workloads throughout its evolution and now we are expanding our support to secure Amazon’s new ECS Exec; a simple, secure, and auditable way to execute commands into containers. This new capability extends Aqua’s runtime protection features, including drift prevention, to ensure that legitimate access to containers is allowed while still …

As a major trend in 2020, enterprises have been increasingly adopting multi-cloud to elevate efficiency and maintain flexibility and independence. But multi-cloud environments are more complex and harder to secure, leading to more cloud service misconfigurations and breaches. Making matters worse, many organizations still believe that their cloud provider will protect them, but the truth …

Amazon continues to build new capabilities into its serverless operational mode and has launched container image support in AWS Lambda. It enables packaging and deploying Lambda functions as container images. Building on our strong partnership with AWS and our desire to offer the most complete cloud-native security solution, Aqua Security now includes advanced security capabilities …

We’ve been working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to extend the Aqua cloud native security platform to support AWS Bottlerocket — a purpose-built, Linux-based, open source OS for running containers on virtual machines or bare metal hosts — which is now GA. This combined effort ensures that AWS customers who use this new OS will …