Amazon Web Services (AWS), whose platform is used by several major facility management providers, has introduced three new enhanced security services to help organisations better manage emerging threats in the gen AI era.
It comes as news broke over the past week that 16 billion login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, including details for platforms such as Google, Apple and Facebook.
Amazon’s three new security services include AWS Security Hub, AWS Shield and Amazon GuardDuty. The services were unveiled last week at the company’s re:Inforce event.
AWS Security Hub
AWS Security Hub helps customers identify their most critical security issues and respond swiftly.
Security teams can spot and prioritise active threats to their cloud systems.
By centralising information, Security Hub reduces response time as it eliminates the need to manually gather information from multiple security tools.
AWS Shield
AWS Shield creates a map of customers’ security resources, identifying vulnerabilities to common attacks such as 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).
The AWS Shield dashboard highlights issues by severity, along with step-by-step instructions for fixing problems quickly.
Amazon GuardDuty
Amazon has introduced expanded capabilities for Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection (XTD), which now protects container-based applications running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
By monitoring EKS audit logs, runtime behaviour, and AWS activity, Amazon says GuardDuty can identify complex, multi-stage attacks.
Amazon to ramp up operations in Australia
Earlier this month, Amazon announced new plans to invest a total of $20 billion from 2025 to 2029 to expand, operate, and maintain its data centre infrastructure in Australia.
The investment is expected to support customer demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerate AI adoption and capabilities among companies, including facility management specialists.
According to the Australian government’s Department of Industry, Science and Resources, AI and automation are expected to contribute up to $600 billion annually to Australia’s GDP by 2030.
AWS has data centres in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne. To support its expanded local cloud infrastructure, Amazon is also investing in three new solar farms across Victoria and Queensland.
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