Aws Container Security
Michael is a product developer advocate in the aws container service team.
Aws container security. You can reach him on twitter via mhausenblas dms are. Aws offers services that give you a secure place to store and manage your container images orchestration that manages when and where your containers run and flexible compute engines to power your containers. As an aws customer you benefit from a data center and network architecture that is built to meet the requirements of the most security sensitive organizations. We also provide a summary below.
Amazon elastic container service amazon ecs is a fully managed container orchestration service. Amazon elastic container service amazon ecs is a highly scalable fast container management service that makes it easy to run stop and manage containers on a cluster. Aws offers 210 security compliance and governance services and key features which is about 40 more than the next largest cloud provider. Your containers are defined in a task definition which you use to run individual tasks or as a service.
Qualys container security cs gives you a complete visibility of container hosts wherever they are in your global it environment on premises and in clouds. The most complete cloud native application protection platform cnapp for the entire stack from development to production. In this video from aws re invent henrik johansson and michael capicotto present how to secure containers on aws and use aws ecs for security and governance. Aws provides strong security isolation between your containers ensures you are running the latest security updates and gives you the ability to set granular access permissions for every container.
He covers container security kubernetes gitops service meshes observability and arm based systems. Security is a shared responsibility between aws and you. Before aws michael worked at red hat mesosphere mapr and in two research institutions in ireland and austria. Containers on aws container management tools can be broken down into three categories.
Aws marketplace is hiring. Full dev to prod container security solution on kubernetes docker openshift fargate lambda aws other container platforms. You can run your tasks and services on a serverless infrastructure that is managed by aws fargate or for more control. Cloud security at aws is the highest priority.
Registry orchestration and compute. Ecs is a great choice to run containers for several reasons. We are currently hiring software development engineers product managers account managers solutions architects support engineers system engineers designers and more. Aws containers are growing rapidly in popularity but how to secure containers in production is still a new topic.
It gathers comprehensive topographic information about your container projects images image registries and containers spun from the images.