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We're excited to announce that Turbot Cloud (SaaS) has received its annual SOC 2 Type II certification.

How to use Turbot to find operational cost savings.

Turbot is excited to have our own Chris Farris, Cloud Security Architect at Turbot, join Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss Steampipe, the importance of multi-cloud security practices, and other topics.

Look back at our top feature releases and customer stories from 2022.

Evaluate NIST 800-53 compliance for all your AWS accounts.

Fix compliance and operational issues with a push of a button.

We're excited to announce that Turbot Cloud (SaaS) has received its annual SOC 2 Type II certification.

AWS re:Invent was back in person for the first time since 2019! The event was high energy and the attendees made it inspiring, educational and fun to be back. Turbot was very proud to return as a sponsor this year.

Automate vulnerability scanning in all your ECR repositories.

Highlights of recent Turbot SaaS and Enterprise product changes.

How to manage security group rules for public facing accounts.

Import your org's custom reference data into the Turbot CMDB.

Automate server access logging on your S3 buckets.

How to enforce encryption at rest to all your Amazon SNS topics.

Highlights of recent Turbot SaaS and Enterprise product changes.

Automatically enable continuous backups with point-in-time recovery of your DynamoDB Tables.

We're excited to announce that Turbot Cloud (SaaS) has received its SOC2 Type 1 certification.

The extensible SQL interface to your favorite cloud APIs

Turbot's new AWS Well-Architected Tool API integration builds upon Turbot's cloud governance platform coverage to help customers and organizations provide a comprehensive view of a customer's security posture on their AWS cloud infrastructure.

Turbot was designed as a remote-first company from day one. Five years ago we made the decision that we wanted to hire the best people regardless of geography, and that we would rather not sink costs into physical infrastructure. Over the years we have developed many optimizations to facilitate remote work...

In one of our development environments, we have 2,000+ event driven lambda functions that generate over 38 million PUT calls to S3 every month, let's experiment with how to use the new S3 KMS Bucket Keys to reduce our KMS charges and measure the savings...

Amazing real use case of saving over $35,000 per year by switching from AWS EBS gp2 volumes to gp3.

We are happy to make this preview available to all Turbot customers (running v5.33.0 or higher) starting today. To celebrate the launch, we have published a five-minute video covering the best new features of Apollo on YouTube.

Turbot is proud to achieve the AWS Outposts Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. Turbot's cloud governance platform integrates with AWS Outposts deployments to support our global customers.

Turbot is proud to announce support for AWS China.

Turbot's Tagging Controls are used as a gateway to to more complex cloud governance policies.

Turbot Announces Availability of Turbot Enterprise and Turbot Cloud (SaaS) Listings on AWS Marketplace. Get started today with our pay as you go model to accelerate your organization's cloud governance strategy.

Turbot's AWS Outposts integration extends our existing CMDB, Policy and Identity engine to maximize your AWS Outposts investment by ensuring AWS Outposts resources are configured per company policies.

Turbot Cloud, Turbot's SaaS distribution, has been added as an additional region to our existing United States hosting option.

Knowing who did what and when in your cloud ecosystem is incredibly difficult, but this is essential knowledge for streamlining governance. Turbot's cloud governance platform visualizes all user activities, resource changes, and security & compliance adherence to your organization's policies.

Learn how to interface with Turbot's cloud governance platform using the Turbot Terraform Provider.

Turbot is excited to be featured on Screaming in the Cloud, a popular tech podcast hosted by Cloud Economist Corey Quinn. Join Corey and David Boeke, CTO & VP Services at Turbot, as they discuss how Turbot's cloud governance platform solves complex challenges faced by enterprises moving to the cloud.

Join us at fwd:cloudsec, a brand-new virtual security conference! Turbot is proud to be a Platinum sponsor for this non-profit security event taking place June 29, 2020.

Turbot has been recognized as a Center for Internet Security (CIS) SecureSuite member, receiving a CIS Benchmark Certification for our Turbot Cloud and Turbot Enterprise software. Turbot obtained our CIS Benchmark Certification by using our own software to prove the requirements for the Certification.

As enterprises progress their cloud adoption across AWS, Azure, and GCP, Turbot believes controlling your cloud spend while encouraging rapid cloud adoption is essential. Turbot's cloud governance platform can ensure your cloud spending is under a controlled budget by preventing or optimizing costly configurations.

With more employees working from home than ever before, the need to control and govern your AWS Workspaces is increasing dramatically. Turbot supports AWS Workspaces and modern remote workforces.

You can't afford to limit your organization's access to multi-cloud environments. But freedom shouldn't put your enterprise at risk. That's why Turbot makes it easy for Enterprise to unlock the true value of multi-cloud environments with automated security guardrails and a safe landing zone approach.

AWS re:Invent was bigger than ever in 2019. 60,000+ attendees made this an inspiring, educational & fun event! Turbot was very proud to be a returning Platinum sponsor. Our Turbot team members from the US, UK, Australia, and Canada were thrilled to be able to meet with our customers face to face.

AWS just announced their general availability of AWS Outposts during today's AWS re:Invent 2019 keynote. AWS Outposts brings native AWS services, infrastructure, and operating models to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility. Users can use the same AWS APIs, tools, and infrastructure across on premises and the AWS cloud to deliver a truly consistent hybrid experience.

Our team attended Cloud Native Computing Foundation's flagship conference that gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities.

Turbot is excited to be a returning Platinum Sponsor at AWS re:Invent 2019 in Booth 1420! Get educated on technical best practices at over 2,500 breakout sessions on topics such as cloud architecture, continuous deployment, security and identity, large-scale migrations, machine learning, and more.

Turbot was proud to have been a returning sponsor at Microsoft Ignite, 2019. Our team met with thousands of individuals focused on software development, security, architecture, and IT.

Join us at Cloud Native Computing Foundation's flagship conference that gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities.

Join us at Microsoft Ignite! Learn innovative ways to build solutions and migrate and manage your infrastructure. Connect with over 25,000 individuals focused on software development, security, architecture, and IT.

Healthcare companies need to rely on the agility of the cloud now more than ever. However, regulatory demands means that they need to leverage automated, software-driven solutions that allow them to exceed customer expectations, protect their clients' data, and remain competitive in the market.

Turbot has announced it is the recipient of the 451 Firestarter award from leading technology research and advisory firm, 451 Research.

An effective automated governance system needs to have a cloud governance framework to serve as a scaffold that allows the enterprise more freedom and security. It should also minimize risk and interruption.

Turbot was proud to be a silver sponsor of the Gartner Catalyst Conference in San Diego. Check out our recap of the event here.

Turbot is proud to be a silver sponsor of the Gartner Catalyst Conference in San Diego, August 12th - 15th. The Gartner Catalyst Conference covers a broad range of technical topics, including Cloud Governance and Security best practices.

Effective cloud governance enables business agility while protecting enterprise data assets from external and internal threats. Learn how Turbot provides governance for the cloud age.

Turbot was proud to be a platinum sponsor at the inaugural AWS re:Inforce event in Boston. Our Turbot team members across North America were thrilled to be able to meet with our customers face to face.

AWS re:Inforce is a security, identity, compliance learning and community building conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community from June 25 through June 26, 2019. Thousands of attendees descend on Boston to hear about exciting new products and connect with other cloud professionals and executives. Turbot is proud to be a Platinum sponsor of AWS re:Inforce in 2019.

Turbot is pleased to announce its new strategic partnership with SecureSky, headquartered in Omaha, NE and founded by seasoned cybersecurity professionals, with extensive experience in managed security services, security operations, application development and security consulting. They work closely with CISOs, business leaders and industry-leading partners to provide our clients with cutting edge services.

Turbot was proud to be a gold sponsor at the AWS Summit in Mumbai on May 15th at Bombay Exhibition Center with more than 6,000 attendees. During the event we had the opportunity to meet with many attendees deploying many interesting and innovative workloads using AWS. We showcased how Turbot can automatically ensure real-time preventative and remediation governance controls to keep their AWS environments, secure, scalable, and cost-optimized.

Join us at the AWS Summit in Mumbai, India to learn how cloud technology can help your business lower costs, improve efficiency, and innovate at scale. This year's event Turbot is proud to be a gold sponsor for the event which is located at the Bombay Exhibition Centre on Wednesday, May 15, 2019.

Turbot was proud to be a silver sponsor at the AWS Summit in London on May 8th at ExCel London's ICC Auditorium. During the event we had the opportunity to meet with many attendees deploying many interesting and innovative workloads using AWS. We showcased how Turbot can automatically ensure real-time preventative and remediation governance controls to keep their AWS environments, secure, scalable, and cost-optimized.

Turbot was proud to be a sponsor at the AWS Summit in Sydney Australia from April 30 - May 2nd with more than 14,000 attendees.During the event we had the opportunity to meet with many attendees deploying many interesting and innovative workloads using AWS. Banks, retailers, healthcare organizations and more are building new apps and moving legacy servers to cloud, all with the goal of serving users better and faster.

Join us at the AWS Summit in London to learn how cloud technology can help your business lower costs, improve efficiency, and innovate at scale. Turbot is proud to be a silver sponsor for this event at ExCel London's ICC Auditorium on 8 May 2019.

Join us at the AWS Summit in Sydney to learn how cloud technology can help your business lower costs, improve efficiency, and innovate at scale. This year's event Turbot is proud to be a gold sponsor over the two days at the International Convention Centre (ICC), Sydney from 30 April to 2 May 2019.

Turbot was proud to be a sponsor at Google Next 2019 in San Francisco, CA from April 9th - 11th with more than 30,000 attendees.During the week we had the opportunity to meet with many attendees deploying many interesting and innovative workloads using Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Turbot is proud to be a sponsor of the Google Next event in San Francisco, CA from April 9th - 11th.

AWS re:Invent was bigger than ever in 2018. 50,000+ attendees made this an inspiring, educational & fun event! Turbot was very proud to be a Platinum sponsor of AWS re:Invent 2018. Our Turbot team members from the US, UK, Australia and India were thrilled to be able to meet with our customers face to face.

Turbot has recently expanded our Guardrail policies for AWS Security Hub announced today during the AWS Reinvent 2018 Keynote.

As a Platinum Sponsor of AWS re:Invent 2018, Turbot CEO is giving a talk, we're hosting comprehensive product demos, 1:1 meetings, an exclusive customer appreciation event...and giving away some amazing goodies that you won't want to miss!

CEO Nathan Wallace's talk at AWS re:Invent on Autonomous DevSecOps: Five Steps to a Self-Driving Cloud will explore how self-driving cloud addresses key governance challenges and sets DevSecOps up for success. Register to attend the talk today.

AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community from November 26 through November 30, 2018. Thousands of attendees descend on Las Vegas to hear about exciting new products and connect with other cloud professionals and executives. Turbot is proud to be a Platinum sponsor of AWS re:Invent in 2018.

Turbot was recently featured on the Nasdaq Spotlight Livestream. The Livestream interview was part of a series of videos spotlighting the most interesting products featured at the Microsoft Ignite Conference.

Building on Turbot's versatile Guardrails to support Microsoft Azure, Turbot now offers Guardrails to manage Linux Virtual Machines in Microsoft Azure.

Turbot is proud to be a sponsor of the Microsoft Ignite Conference in Orlando, FL from September 24th - 28th. Get the latest insights and skills from technology leaders and practitioners shaping the future of cloud, data, business intelligence, teamwork, and productivity. Immerse yourself with the latest tools, tech, and experiences that matter, and hear the latest updates and ideas directly from the experts.

Today, Amazon Web Services formally announced the new AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency. Turbot was recognized as a leader in the Cloud Management space by being included as a launch partner for the new AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency.

Building on Turbot's strong public-sector program supporting government agencies, educational institutions, government contractors, and aerospace defense companies, Turbot is proud to extend our features to support Azure Government.

Turbot provides Guardrails for a number of AWS security, identity, and compliance products. Turbot has recently expanded our Guardrail policies for Amazon Inspector to help Enterprises ensure Amazon Inspector is setup and configured consistently across large scale multi-account AWS implementations.

Turbot is proud to be a silver sponsor of the Gartner Catalyst Conference in San Diego, August 20th - 23rd. The Gartner Catalyst Conference covers a broad range of technical topics, including Cloud Governance and Security best practices.

Turbot provides Guardrails for a number of AWS security, identity, and compliance products. Turbot has recently expanded our Guardrail policies for Amazon GuardDuty to help enterprises ensure that Amazon GuardDuty is setup and configured according to defined policies for threat detection to continuously monitor for malicious or unauthorized behavior across AWS accounts and workloads.

The Turbot team enjoyed spending time in the Windy City for the AWS Summit in Chicago. This year, over 6,500 people from all industries and AWS adoption levels were in attendance. Turbot was proud to be a silver sponsor of the AWS Summit.

My kind of town, Chicago is... Turbot is proud to be a silver sponsor of the AWS Summit in Chicago on August 2nd. Visit Turbot at booth 515 at the summit.

The Turbot team had a great time last week at the AWS Summit in New York. This year, over 10,000 people from all industries and AWS adoption levels were in attendance. Turbot was proud to be a silver sponsor of the AWS Summit.

Turbot is proud to be a silver sponsor of the AWS Summit in New York on July 17th. Visit Turbot at booth 208 at the summit. The Turbot team is excited to meet you to discuss how Turbot accelerates your adoption of AWS, and automates your operations, networking, security, and compliance controls.

Last week, the Turbot team headed to the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC. This year, over 7,500 people from Federal, State, and Local Government, Non-profits, and higher education were in attendance. Turbot was proud to be a bronze sponsor of the AWS Public Sector Summit.

Turbot now supports the integration and assignment of permissions by using Active Directory groups. With Turbot's latest release, permissions for resources can be assigned automatically by Turbot by moving users into an integrated group. This allows administrators to make use of existing processes for onboarding and offboarding employees, support job role changes, and additions for access simply by making changes within the company's Active Directory.

Turbot is proud to be a bronze sponsor of the AWS WWPS Summit in Washington, DC. Global leaders from government, education, and nonprofit organizations will come together for the ninth annual AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC. Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to use the cloud for complex, innovative, and mission-critical projects.

As technologists, we live and die by the ticket. Support tickets create our pipeline of work, document when work is approved, prioritize our efforts, and provide evidence of what we've achieved. Tickets create order out of chaos and validate our success. But what if we challenged the paradigm of support tickets, and really took a deep look at all that we hold to be true about the value of support tickets? What if we killed the ticket?

Earlier this year, Turbot was recognized as an AWS Public Sector Partner. To further aid our public-sector customers, Turbot has now released support for AWS GovCloud.

The AWS Summit in London was bigger than ever in 2018. 15,000 attendees over the course of two days made this a great event. Turbot was proud to be a silver sponsor of the AWS Summit in London.

Turbot is proud to be a silver sponsor of the AWS Summit in London. Join the AWS Summit in London and learn how the cloud is accelerating innovation in businesses of all sizes.

With the May 25th deadline for GDPR compliance rapidly approaching, Turbot can support and enforce compliance for your public cloud. This article discusses the technical components of GDPR and how Turbot can enforce the requirements of the regulation.

Turbot Resources can be managed as Custom Resources in CloudFormation. Managing Turbot through CloudFormation supports a wide range of scenarios like: managing Turbot Resource Groups and Policies, managing Turbot Policies (particularly exceptions) in code with the AWS Resources, and automatic cleanup of Turbot-modified resources to prevent CloudFormation conflicts.

At Turbot, we talk a lot about the need for continuous compliance. Whether a small business or a large enterprise, more and more companies are entering into regulated industries, or have the need to adhere to particular governance models like HIPAA, PCI, NIST, GxP, or others. So, what is the difference between being compliant, and being continuously compliant? It's a matter of what happens after an audit.

Enterprises progressing through their cloud adoption need to ensure that they have cost management strategies in place to control their spend as they continue to migrate services to cloud providers. These 10 tips will help to get basic cost control strategies into place. In addition to a full suite of preventive, detective, and corrective controls, and IAM management, Turbot also provides many cost controls helping you to ensure your cloud environment is continuously and automatically cost optimized.

Maintaining a consistent UID for Linux users across servers both on-premise and in the cloud is a difficult problem, but critical when using shared resources like NFS that manage permissions on UIDs. Learn how Turbot can be leveraged to use a standard UID across all servers.

Many organizations are looking to make the decision between adopting a single-account model, or a multi-account model for supporting their cloud environment. This article walks through the typical cloud journey for organizations initially adopting a single-account model and discusses the challenges that come along with that approach.

Resource Groups allow resources from different areas of the resource tree to be grouped together. Policies can be applied to Resource Groups, allowing them to be reused across a collection of resources.

Using Turbot enterprise guardrails, organizations can support continuous compliance to many key areas of PCI compliance.

Turbot, the world leader in Software Defined Operations, is constantly building new guardrails to ensure that your cloud infrastructure is secure, compliant, scalable, and cost optimized. With our most recent update, we are proud to announce that Turbot now offers over 1,000 guardrails.

Turbot, an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, has helped some of the world's largest regulated enterprises enable automated operations, security, and compliance controls in the public cloud. After significant work with organizations in the public sector, Turbot is proud to be recognized by AWS as an Advanced Technology Partner in the AWS Public Sector Partner Program.

AWS re:Invent was bigger than ever in 2017. 40,000+ attendees made this an inspiring, educational & fun event! Turbot was very proud to be a Gold sponsor of AWS re:Invent 2017. Our Turbot team members from the US, UK and India were thrilled to be able to meet with our customers face to face. During the week we had the opportunity to meet with thousands of attendees at our booth to demo new Turbot features and give away cool prizes. It was fantastic to see people from so many companies in the process of cloud migrations, talking tech about their existing cloud environments, and to be in the presence of so many cloud experts at one time.

This month, Amazon announced the availability of S3 default encryption. To further support Amazon's efforts for rolling out S3 default encryption, Turbot has released additional guardrails to configure S3 default bucket encryption, and will also continue to manage encryption at rest bucket policies.

AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community from November 27 till December 1. Thousands of attendees descend on Las Vegas to hear about exciting new products and connect with other cloud professionals and executives. Turbot is proud to be a Gold sponsor of AWS re:Invent in 2017.

Last week our Founder & CEO, Nathan Wallace, hosted a live webinar on accelerating governance with cloud automation. We had great attendance and had fantastic questions from the audience.

We are often asked by potential customers how Turbot can help implement and enforce policies to avoid accidental (or malicious) exposure of data in S3. While best practices to accomplish this are well known, ensuring and executing these best practices at scale require automation.

Business agility and faster speed to market are often primary drivers of enterprise cloud strategies. IT organizations often implement a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) model to streamline operations, but without effective automation these teams can quickly become a bottleneck to the broader business strategy.

AWS and AWS Partner Network (APN) Partner Turbot will present a new webinar in October 2017 focused on compliance requirements for Life Sciences organizations using workloads on AWS.

Monday at the Javits Center in New York saw the largest AWS Summit ever with over 9,700 attendees. Turbot also had its largest contingent on-hand with 7 employees for all the corners of the globe. We gave away a metric ton of stickers, demonstrations, handshakes, high-fives, information about Turbot's Guardrails and one very special pair of Gold Apple AirPods (congratulations to Thomas H.)!

On Monday August 14th, we will be sponsoring the AWS New York City Summit! Every year we are able to meet many enthused attendees eager to knowledge share and look for opportunities to improve their cloud strategy, deployments, and operational processes.

Last week in the Windy City Amazon Web Services hosted the AWS Summit Chicago. Over 6200 attendees met with AWS technical experts and other AWS users. We had the pleasure of exhibiting and had a wonderful two days meeting hundreds, if not, thousands of users. We loved talking to you, demoing Turbot's guardrail features and showcasing our new UI.

The summer of AWS events continues this week in Chicago. Turbot will be exhibiting at AWS Summit Chicago on July 26-27. Register here and stop by Booth 112 to say Hi!

In static on-premise environments mapping from a domain name to a server is simple and straightforward. Autoscaling servers, load balancers, cloud computing, multiple availability zone management and PaaS services don't enter the equation for DNS management; however, today's networking and DevOps have to deal with the complexity of naming these dynamic resources in their modern cloud native infrastructures.

Turbot, an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, has always had a deep focus on the needs of our clients, including some of the world's largest regulated enterprises moving to public cloud. Taking the time to understand the complexity of their unique requirements has honed our expertise & knowledge of AWS services and helped us effectively fine-tune guardrails to meet a diverse set of security and governance challenges.

The AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington D.C. was a smashing success with over 10,000 attendees visiting over 3 days. At the Summit, Werner Vogels, Amazon's CTO, announced that AWS will be expanding and opening another GovCloud region in the Eastern US in 2018 and the new availability of Amazon Rekognition within the existing GovGloud region.

Stop by Booth 455 in The Hub at the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington DC on June 12-14 to meet Turbot.

McGraw-Hill Education is learning science company, supporting millions of students, educators, and institutions with applications running on AWS that serve tens of thousands of transactions per second. In this competitive and highly dynamic environment, developer and development team productivity is crucial to meeting the demands of their business.

Using tags for cost allocation, to track resource ownership, and automate operational actives has always been a Turbot recommended best practice; however, manually managing thousands of tags across accounts, resources and services is an inconsistent and error prone process.

Turbot had an incredible week in Boston while exhibiting at BioIT World 2017. We had a great time talking to life science customers and helping them accelerate their research and scientific computing strategies.

Turbot is very happy to be on the road this week to attend BioIT World 2017.

Scientific computing (also computational science) is a rapidly growing multi-disciplinary field that leverages large-scale data-driven science enabled by extensive computational resources.

Many organizations face huge legal and technical challenges in arranging for hosting of data and applications in ways that are agreeable to all parties of a collaboration, because the entity hosting the data can exert control by means of network/physical access.

Turbot had an incredible week in the Golden City while exhibiting at AWS Summit San Francisco. We were energized by conversations with AWS customers and in helping them realize the full potential of their public cloud strategy across many focus areas.

Central Kentucky Wildlife Hospital is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which helps rescue, rehabilitate, and release Kentucky's injured and orphaned wildlife.

Turbot is very proud to be featured on the AWS podcast this week.

Traditional lift & shift mass migrations into the cloud often happen without thinking through the best operational and governance approaches to managing the environment over the long-term. The lack of detailed planning in these areas frequently leads to rework, longer migration timeframes and higher ongoing costs.

Stop by Booth 1615 in The Hub at the AWS Summit in San Francisco on April 18-19 to meet Turbot.

Application isolation using a multi-account strategy is a core principle and best practice for enterprises serious about cloud infrastructure. Turbot's integration with the new AWS Organizations feature further supports customers as they execute this strategy.

Turbot now offers real-time execution and process logging of Ansible playbooks

Costs for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes can spiral if an unused EBS volume detached from an EC2 instance but not deleted. To help keep these cloud management costs under control, Turbot launched two new Guardrails.

Using Turbot enterprise guardrails, DevOps teams can ensure they use only HIPAA-eligible AWS services and that they securely process, store, and transmit PHI data.

At AWS SKO 2017, we heard many vendors seeking a solution to problems that Turbot can help solve: creating safe landing zones for cloud migrations.

Turbot is at RSA Conference USA this week. Connect with us to talk about how Turbot's Software Defined Operations platform can help keep control of your company's cloud security.

If you're at AWS SKO 2017, stop by Booth #140, where we will be providing live demos, handing out swag, and nerding out with fellow AWS fanatics.

In this webinar, experts from Turbot and CloudCheckr share best practices for deploying and managing AWS at scale, harnessing the value and power of enterprise cloud. Learn how to improve visibility and maintain control over cloud infrastructure without impacting agility.

Turbot's new Instance Scheduling feature gives your cloud team the power to reduce cloud costs by setting start and stop times for EC2 instances at the resource or account level.

Ian Scofield, AWS Partner SA, highlights the efficiencies and value that Turbot brings our clients with our innovative Software Defined Operations platform.

Join Turbot and our partners at CloudCheckr for a webinar to learn best practices for managing enterprise cloud operations at scale.

Many of our enterprise customers are using Turbot enterprise guardrails to ensure continuous security and compliance adherence of their cloud infrastructure with applicable internal controls and external industry standards such as Center for Internet Security (CIS).

Turbot's new metadata tagging model provides yet another level of capability for customers who use account isolation for application environments to enable automation. Tagging enhances those automations and ease management of your cloud ecosystem.

Turbot Inherit & Turbot Include make maintaining lists of option settings in Turbot significantly easier as the number of AWS accounts managed in Turbot grows.

As for past AWS Regions, Turbot enabled support for the new London Region within days of it becoming available on AWS. In fact, we even opened an office there!

Our intrepid dev team continues its assault on Turbot-Enabling services launched at AWS reInvent. We added support for AWS Server Migration Service, AWS Shield, AWS Step Functions, and AWS X-Ray.

We are very happy to announce that the AWS ca-central-1 region is now available in Turbot (less than 24 hours after launch). The new region supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and related services in C4, D2, M4, T2, and X1 instances.

On Thursday Turbot announced support for Amazon's new Polly and Rekognition services, and today followed that up with support for AWS CodeBuild Personal Health Dashboard.

Today we are happy to announce support for two new AWS services that were launched at reInvent yesterday - Amazon Polly and Amazon Rekognition. The Turbot team feeds off the challenge of maintaining pace with AWS!

Meet Turbot at AWS re:Invent 2016

We are happy to announce a new partnership between CloudCheckr and Turbot to give cloud teams tools to save money, track spending, and optimize AWS cloud resources.

Last week, Turbot was recognized as a Life Sciences Competency Partner by Amazon Web Services. Turbot is just the eighth APN Technology Partner to achieve this recognition.

We are happy to announce that us-east-2 region - AWS US East (Ohio) Region - with three availability zones is now available in Turbot, just days after launch!

Turbot supports sharing local AMIs with other accounts and launching AMIs from trusted accounts. These features allow for better management and use of AMIs across your enterprise.

Turbot now fully supports CfnCluster ("CloudFormation cluster"), a framework that deploys and maintains High Performance Computing clusters on AWS, by automating various operational and security controls.

Many customers use Turbot enterprise Guardrails to ensure continuous security and compliance adherence of their cloud infrastructure with external industry standards, now including support for NIST 800-53.

To further accelerate our customer's use of AWS EMR and automate additional security and compliance controls, Turbot has extended our Linux hardening Guardrails to also support AWS EMR!

We were so excited to hear yesterday about the new AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, we enabled support region within 24 hours!

Turbot now supports user managed AWS access keys, allowing users to create, rotate, and delete access keys from the Turbot console for each of their accounts.

With the use of Turbot Guardrails, Celgene utilizes AWS to speed innovation while adhering to industry best practices. Previously, AWS was off-limits to research due to security concerns.

Turbot now supports custom S3 bucket policies and has added new guardrails to restrict anonymous and cross-account bucket access.

Turbot is proud to be presenting a case study at BioITWorld today with Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC)] on their use of Turbot.

Turbot has added Session Timeout option allowing Cluster Administrators to set the preferred AWS user session length in minutes.

Turbot supports many Linux OS flavors whether the customer brings their own Amazon Machine Image (AMI), or Turbot manages the OS tier.

Turbot's powerful network isolation for applications offers a lot of protection, but sometimes an application really needs access to an internal resource like a database, application server, or similar.

Available immmediately, Turbot has added enterprise guardrails for the use of AWS Route 53, a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System web service.

Turbot now includes support for enterprise guardrails for Linux, including security hardening and user management.

Turbot now includes support for enterprise guardrails for Databases, including security hardening and user management.

AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR) simplifies big data processing, providing a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective for you to distribute and process vast amounts of your data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances.

Turbot has added enterprise guardrails for the use of AWS Key Management Service, making it easy and safe to put this encryption technology in your application teams' hands.

The Cluster home page and user account page have been combined, redesigned and expanded to include user activity records, message of the day and user password reset.

Turbot launches today!