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What happened in AWS CloudSecurity & CyberSecurity last week July 22-July 29, 2024?

• Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports the management of on-premises workloads running on Amazon Linux 2023, Fedora 40, Debian 11, Debian 12, Ubuntu 24, and CentOS Stream 9. The Amazon ECS Anywhere feature allows you to deploy and manage containerized applications on your own virtual machines (VMs) and bare metal servers.
• AWS Step Functions now supports using Customer Managed Keys with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt State Machine and Activity resources. This new feature allows you to secure your workflow definitions and execution data with your own encryption keys.

Trending on the news & advisories (Subscribe to the newsletter for details):

• Docker Security Advisory: AuthZ Plugin Bypass Regression in Docker Engine.
• Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2024 Q2 Security Researchers!
• Google- Building security into the redesigned Chrome downloads experience. Link.