Amazon Cloud Computing Division Unveils New Cyber Security Service
December 01 2016 - 2:55PM
Dow Jones News
By Jay Greene and Laura Stevens
LAS VEGAS-- Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud-computing unit unveiled a
new service to help protect customers against cyberattacks of the
sort that rendered dozens of popular websites unreachable for parts
of a day last month.
Amazon Web Services introduced AWS Shield, a service that will
be turned on by default for its customers. The company said that
Shield will help customers defend against so-called distributed
denial-of-service attacks that can knock websites offline by
flooding them with junk data, blocking the way for legitimate
users.
"This will really help you protect yourselves even against the
largest and most sophisticated attacks that we've seen," said
Werner Vogels, Amazon chief technical officer at the annual
conference for the retail giant's cloud-computing unit here.
The company also announced AWS Shield Advanced, a version
designed to protect against more aggressive and sophisticated
attacks.
Mr. Vogels said the two offerings were both generally available
immediately. The company didn't explain how the service would work
or disclose pricing during the keynote address.
Last month's attacks affected high-profile websites including
Netflix, Twitter, PayPal, and The Wall Street Journal.
Security is one of the biggest concerns for companies making the
transition from operating their own data centers to buying access
to computing resources over the web from companies such as AWS. Mr.
Vogels stressed during his keynote that security was the highest
priority in Amazon's operations.
Write to Jay Greene at Jay.Greene@wsj.com and Laura Stevens at
laura.stevens@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
December 01, 2016 14:40 ET (19:40 GMT)
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