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Channel Post MEA
02-07-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
AWS Unveils Three New Security Features at re:Inforce
Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled a suite of new security capabilities at AWS re:Inforce, to help customers of all sizes strengthen their digital defenses. AWS re:Inforce, the company's annual cloud security conference, brings together security experts, partners, and builders from around the world to collaborate on addressing emerging security challenges in the generative AI era. As organizations face increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, AWS announced a dozen new capabilities today aiming to simplify security management while providing even more comprehensive protection. Here are three of those key services: AWS Security Hub: helping customers quickly spot and prioritize active threats to their systems AWS Security Hub helps customers identify their most critical security issues and respond quickly to reduce risks. It acts as a kind of 'security command center,' connecting the dots between different types of security alerts and vulnerabilities. This helps security teams quickly spot and prioritize active threats to their cloud systems. By bringing everything together into one place, Security Hub provides a clearer picture of an organization's security status while eliminating the need to manually gather information from multiple security tools. AWS Security Hub is available in preview to AWS customers starting today. AWS Shield: proactively protecting customers' online systems AWS Shield is enhancing how it protects websites and online applications by proactively finding network security configuration mistakes and weaknesses. The service now creates a map of customers' security resources, identifying vulnerabilities to common attacks like SQL injections (when hackers try to access data through website forms) and Distributed Denial-of-Service, or DDoS, attacks (when attackers overwhelm websites with fake traffic to make them crash). AWS Shield provides an easy-to-understand dashboard that highlights issues by severity, along with step-by-step instructions for fixing problems quickly. Customers can even use Amazon Q, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for work, to get guidance through simple conversations, rather than navigating complex security settings. Amazon GuardDuty: launching Extended Threat Detection for container-based applications AWS announced expanded capabilities for Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection (XTD), which now protects container-based applications running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). GuardDuty connects various security signals across customers' systems to detect sophisticated attack patterns that might otherwise go unnoticed. By monitoring EKS audit logs, runtime behavior, and AWS activity, GuardDuty can identify complex, multi-stage attacks. These improved detection capabilities allow security teams to spend less time investigating potential issues and more time addressing genuine threats, reducing the impact on business operations. Balancing AI innovation with safety concerns is within reach, but it requires unprecedented collaboration between governments and companies. As security challenges continue to evolve, AWS is committed to ensuring organizations stay ahead of potential risks. For example, AWS now has 100% multi-factor authentication enforcement for all root users across all types of AWS accounts. The new security capabilities announced today provide customers with deeper visibility, streamline security operations, and help protect their cloud environments more effectively. By building security capabilities that empower innovation and creating guardrails that give organizations the confidence to scale rapidly, AWS is helping customers build stronger security postures with less effort, allowing them to focus more resources on growth.
Zawya
02-07-2025
- Business
- Zawya
AWS rolls out 3 key security capabilities at re:Inforce
New tools will allow customers to better protect their digital assets, identify important security issues, defend against cyberattacks, and more. AWS is introducing three new enhanced security services to help organizations better manage emerging threats in the gen AI era. AWS Security Hub helps teams identify and address critical issues in one unified location. AWS Shield's new proactive network security analysis makes it easier to spot and fix security gaps before attackers can exploit them. Amazon GuardDuty enhances its Extended Threat Detection to container-based environments, identifying complex attack patterns that might otherwise go undetected. United Arab Emirates, Dubai – Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled a suite of new security capabilities at AWS re:Inforce, to help customers of all sizes strengthen their digital defenses. AWS re:Inforce, the company's annual cloud security conference, brings together security experts, partners, and builders from around the world to collaborate on addressing emerging security challenges in the generative AI era. As organizations face increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, AWS announced a dozen new capabilities today aiming to simplify security management while providing even more comprehensive protection. Here are three of those key services: AWS Security Hub: helping customers quickly spot and prioritize active threats to their systems AWS Security Hub helps customers identify their most critical security issues and respond quickly to reduce risks. It acts as a kind of 'security command center,' connecting the dots between different types of security alerts and vulnerabilities. This helps security teams quickly spot and prioritize active threats to their cloud systems. By bringing everything together into one place, Security Hub provides a clearer picture of an organization's security status while eliminating the need to manually gather information from multiple security tools. AWS Security Hub is available in preview to AWS customers starting today. AWS Shield: proactively protecting customers' online systems AWS Shield is enhancing how it protects websites and online applications by proactively finding network security configuration mistakes and weaknesses. The service now creates a map of customers' security resources, identifying vulnerabilities to common attacks like SQL injections (when hackers try to access data through website forms) and Distributed Denial-of-Service, or DDoS, attacks (when attackers overwhelm websites with fake traffic to make them crash). AWS Shield provides an easy-to-understand dashboard that highlights issues by severity, along with step-by-step instructions for fixing problems quickly. Customers can even use Amazon Q, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for work, to get guidance through simple conversations, rather than navigating complex security settings. Amazon GuardDuty: launching Extended Threat Detection for container-based applications AWS announced expanded capabilities for Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection (XTD), which now protects container-based applications running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). GuardDuty connects various security signals across customers' systems to detect sophisticated attack patterns that might otherwise go unnoticed. By monitoring EKS audit logs, runtime behavior, and AWS activity, GuardDuty can identify complex, multi-stage attacks. These improved detection capabilities allow security teams to spend less time investigating potential issues and more time addressing genuine threats, reducing the impact on business operations. Balancing AI innovation with safety concerns is within reach, but it requires unprecedented collaboration between governments and companies. As security challenges continue to evolve, AWS is committed to ensuring organizations stay ahead of potential risks. For example, AWS now has 100% multi-factor authentication enforcement for all root users across all types of AWS accounts. The new security capabilities announced today provide customers with deeper visibility, streamline security operations, and help protect their cloud environments more effectively. By building security capabilities that empower innovation and creating guardrails that give organizations the confidence to scale rapidly, AWS is helping customers build stronger security postures with less effort, allowing them to focus more resources on growth. Learn more about these security topics and what's being discussed at AWS re:Inforce. About Amazon Web Services Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 114 Availability Zones within 36 geographic regions, with announced plans for 16 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Chile, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon.
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Can Amazon Continue to Dominate the Fast Cloud Security Market Growth?
Amazon AMZN, through its cloud unit Amazon Web Services ('AWS'), offers a wide range of security services that help organizations protect their data, applications and infrastructure. These services cover key areas like threat detection, identity and access management, application security, network protection, data encryption and compliance monitoring. Tools like GuardDuty, Security Hub and AWS Shield enable companies to detect risks early, automate responses and maintain control over their cloud environments. In addition to its built-in services, AWS provides access to hundreds of third-party tools through the AWS Marketplace, giving customers more flexibility to meet industry-specific security needs. This strong foundation comes at a time when demand for secure cloud solutions is rising rapidly. According to a report by Mordor Intelligence, the global cloud security software market is projected to grow from $50.11 billion in 2025 to $95.03 billion by 2030, witnessing a CAGR of 13.7%. AWS, with its integrated tools and extensive partner ecosystem, is well-positioned to capture a significant share of this expanding market. To stay ahead of evolving threats, AWS continues to strengthen its offerings. AWS launched new updates to GuardDuty, Security Hub and Shield to better support organizations using generative AI. AWS also continues to expand its Marketplace offerings to support a broader range of customer security requirements. Reflecting the impact of these efforts, AWS reported $29.3 billion in revenues for the first quarter of 2025, up 17% year over year, contributing 20.4% to Amazon's total revenues. Our model estimate for AWS revenues in fiscal 2025 is pegged at $126 billion, indicating 17.2% growth year over year. As more organizations turn to AWS for secure, scalable cloud solutions, its security services remain a key driver of continued growth. AWS is facing tough competition from Microsoft MSFT and Oracle ORCL as cloud security becomes a top priority for enterprises. Microsoft recently announced a strategic collaboration with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and industry partners to standardize threat actor naming. Microsoft's move aims to improve clarity in cyber threat intelligence and foster better coordination across the security community. Meanwhile, Oracle launched a first-of-its-kind National Security Defense ecosystem, focused on advancing cybersecurity, intelligence and defense capabilities. By supporting secure, mission-critical infrastructure, Oracle is strengthening its position in public sector and national security cloud deployments. AMZN shares have lost 4.4% in the year-to-date (YTD) period, underperforming the Zacks Internet – Commerce industry and the Zacks Retail-Wholesale sector's growth of 2.1% and 0.8%, respectively. Image Source: Zacks Investment Research From a valuation standpoint, AMZN stock is currently trading at a forward 12-month Price/Sales ratio of 3.07X compared with the industry's 2.01X. AMZN has a Value Score of C. Image Source: Zacks Investment Research The Zacks Consensus Estimate for second-quarter 2025 earnings is pegged at $1.31 per share, which has remained steady over the past 30 days, indicating 6.5% year-over-year growth. Inc. price-consensus-chart | Inc. Quote The consensus mark for 2025 earnings is pegged at $6.22 per share, which has been revised upward by 4 cents over the past 30 days. The estimate indicates 12.48% year-over-year currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Inc. (AMZN) : Free Stock Analysis Report Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) : Free Stock Analysis Report Oracle Corporation (ORCL) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research ( Zacks Investment Research
Globe and Mail
23-06-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Can Amazon Continue to Dominate the Fast Cloud Security Market Growth?
Amazon AMZN, through its cloud unit Amazon Web Services ('AWS'), offers a wide range of security services that help organizations protect their data, applications and infrastructure. These services cover key areas like threat detection, identity and access management, application security, network protection, data encryption and compliance monitoring. Tools like GuardDuty, Security Hub and AWS Shield enable companies to detect risks early, automate responses and maintain control over their cloud environments. In addition to its built-in services, AWS provides access to hundreds of third-party tools through the AWS Marketplace, giving customers more flexibility to meet industry-specific security needs. This strong foundation comes at a time when demand for secure cloud solutions is rising rapidly. According to a report by Mordor Intelligence, the global cloud security software market is projected to grow from $50.11 billion in 2025 to $95.03 billion by 2030, witnessing a CAGR of 13.7%. AWS, with its integrated tools and extensive partner ecosystem, is well-positioned to capture a significant share of this expanding market. To stay ahead of evolving threats, AWS continues to strengthen its offerings. AWS launched new updates to GuardDuty, Security Hub and Shield to better support organizations using generative AI. AWS also continues to expand its Marketplace offerings to support a broader range of customer security requirements. Reflecting the impact of these efforts, AWS reported $29.3 billion in revenues for the first quarter of 2025, up 17% year over year, contributing 20.4% to Amazon's total revenues. Our model estimate for AWS revenues in fiscal 2025 is pegged at $126 billion, indicating 17.2% growth year over year. As more organizations turn to AWS for secure, scalable cloud solutions, its security services remain a key driver of continued growth. AMZN Faces Stiff Competition in Cloud Security AWS is facing tough competition from Microsoft MSFT and Oracle ORCL as cloud security becomes a top priority for enterprises. Microsoft recently announced a strategic collaboration with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and industry partners to standardize threat actor naming. Microsoft's move aims to improve clarity in cyber threat intelligence and foster better coordination across the security community. Meanwhile, Oracle launched a first-of-its-kind National Security Defense ecosystem, focused on advancing cybersecurity, intelligence and defense capabilities. By supporting secure, mission-critical infrastructure, Oracle is strengthening its position in public sector and national security cloud deployments. AMZN's Share Price Performance, Valuation and Estimates AMZN shares have lost 4.4% in the year-to-date (YTD) period, underperforming the Zacks Internet – Commerce industry and the Zacks Retail-Wholesale sector's growth of 2.1% and 0.8%, respectively. AMZN's YTD Price Performance Image Source: Zacks Investment Research From a valuation standpoint, AMZN stock is currently trading at a forward 12-month Price/Sales ratio of 3.07X compared with the industry's 2.01X. AMZN has a Value Score of C. AMZN Valuation Image Source: Zacks Investment Research The Zacks Consensus Estimate for second-quarter 2025 earnings is pegged at $1.31 per share, which has remained steady over the past 30 days, indicating 6.5% year-over-year growth. The consensus mark for 2025 earnings is pegged at $6.22 per share, which has been revised upward by 4 cents over the past 30 days. The estimate indicates 12.48% year-over-year growth. Amazon currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. Zacks' Research Chief Names "Stock Most Likely to Double" Our team of experts has just released the 5 stocks with the greatest probability of gaining +100% or more in the coming months. Of those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian highlights the one stock set to climb highest. This top pick is a little-known satellite-based communications firm. Space is projected to become a trillion dollar industry, and this company's customer base is growing fast. Analysts have forecasted a major revenue breakout in 2025. Of course, all our elite picks aren't winners but this one could far surpass earlier Zacks' Stocks Set to Double like Hims & Hers Health, which shot up +209%. Free: See Our Top Stock And 4 Runners Up Inc. (AMZN): Free Stock Analysis Report Microsoft Corporation (MSFT): Free Stock Analysis Report
Yahoo
17-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Amazon's AWS Debuts Internal Access and Threat Tools
At the AWS re:Inforce event, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) unveiled a suite of enhanced security toolsfrom Identity and Access Management upgrades to AI-powered threat defensesunderscoring security as the bedrock for modern cloud and AI deployments. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 3 Warning Sign with AMZN. AWS CISO Amy Herzog kicked off the security-focused conference by noting IAM now processes 1.2 billion API calls per second globally. She announced Internal Access Findings, an IAM Access Analyzer feature powered by automated reasoning, is generally available to pinpoint who can access critical resources. Herzog also reiterated AWS's long-standing commitment to data sovereignty controls and previewed an enhanced Security Hub. On the network front, AWS Network Firewall now includes active threat defense, and GuardDuty is getting extended threat-detection enhancements. Comcast's Noopur Davis joined the keynote to highlight a six-year AWS partnership on security solutions and best practices for resilient architectures. With AI workloads scaling rapidly, security gaps can't be an afterthought. These new capabilities simplify compliance, give enterprises granular visibility into access, and embed real-time defenses directly into cloud infrastructurekey for organizations facing both sophisticated attacks and stringent data-sovereignty mandates. As these features roll out, look for enterprises to accelerate migration of sensitive workloads onto AWS. Adoption ratesand case studies of AI projects secured by these toolswill be the true test of whether AWS's security stack can keep pace with evolving threats. This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Sign in to access your portfolio
