Amazon Firecracker: Isolating Serverless Containers and Functions

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CONTAINER SECURITY

Amazon Firecracker: Isolating Serverless Containers and Functions

Infrastructure protection, sandboxed containers, MicroVM hypervisors– these are interchangeable terms describing emerging technologies to isolate micro-services from their underlying infrastructure. These isolation technologies aim to protect the underlying host that runs containers and functions against malicious escape and breakout attempts into other targets on the same host or on the shared infrastructure. They attempt to provide VM-level isolation …

How to Secure Amazon ECS Workloads On Demand

In support of Amazon’s announcement this week at re:Invent surrounding the new AWS Container Marketplace, we’ve made the Aqua Container Security Platform available for on-demand consumption (pay as you go), via the newly minted AWS Container category in the Marketplace. We have several new listings in the AWS Marketplace, but in this blog I’ll cover …

CONTAINER SECURITY

AWS Fargate Security with Sidecars

A few months ago we launched the Aqua MicroEnforcer, the first solution for providing runtime protection to a container running in Containers-as-a-Service platforms like AWS Fargate or Azure Container Instances. The mechanism I wrote about at the time involved building a protected version of a container image being deployed, by adding the MicroEnforcer executable into …

RUNTIME SECURITY

AWS Fargate Security, and The Importance of Immutability

Back in March we announced Aqua MicroEnforcer, a new deployment technology that enabled us to secure runtime workload running on AWS Fargate and Azure Container Instances. Since then we’ve seen a lot of interest from customers who see these services not only as a way to deploy containers on demand for spillover capacity, or for …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Securing Kubernetes Deployments on Amazon EKS with Aqua

AWS made its Elastic Container Services for Kubernetes (EKS) generally available today. We at Aqua had access to the preview version for some time, which allowed us to ensure that our container security platform works with EKS to provide its full spectrum of runtime protection capabilities.

CLOUD WORKLOAD PROTECTION

Revisiting AWS Fargate with Aqua

A few months ago I was lucky enough to get my hands on Fargate when it was in preview in the run-up to AWS re:invent. It was immediately clear that it’s a pretty cool concept, and that it presents a new challenge for security solutions like Aqua, because of the lack of a “host” entity …

2017 in Review: Major Developments in the Container Ecosystem

From a “humble” $762 million in 2016, containers are predicted to grow faster than any other technology this year (as well as the next) and are on the way to become a $2.7B industry by 2020.

CONTAINER SECURITY

Securing Struts in AWS Fargate

Today at re:Invent, Amazon is announcing AWS Fargate, a container service that allows you to provision containers in AWS without having to worry about the VM instances for them to run on. We had an early preview, and the opportunity to see how Aqua’s Container Security Platform works to protect containers running in it.

CONTAINER SECURITY

Image Scanning in VPCs with Aqua and AWS PrivateLink

Amazon Web Services announced today at re:Invent an to a recent feature PrivateLink, that enables AWS Virtual Private Cloud customers to consume apps outside their VPCs through service endpoints, using their own private IP addresses and security groups. This is a non-trivial task since VPCs are made to be isolated, so normally, making an external SaaS application …

How Aqua Scans Container Images On-Demand From The AWS Marketplace

Today we announced the availability of a new offering on AWS – our on-demand, pay-per-scan security scanner for container images is now available in the AWS Marketplace. The scanner is a full-featured version of Aqua’s image scanning capabilities found in the Aqua Container Security Platform, but with a licensing mechanism that enables a pay-per-scan model, …

Securing Container Workloads on AWS with Aqua

Many of our customers run container workloads on AWS – hardly surprising given Amazon’s lead position in the cloud market. But AWS also offers some distinct advantages to those running containers, including a set of highly-integrated services that take the pain away from managing deployments.

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