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Threat Stack announced it has expanded its AWS Fargate Security Monitoring to include Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service. Using the Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform, businesses can gain full-stack observability into AWS EKS on AWS Fargate within minutes to detect threats and maintain compliance throughout their cloud infrastructure.

Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service for healthcare and life sciences organizations to ingest, store, query, and analyze their health data at scale. Using Amazon HealthLake, organizations can easily move their FHIR-formatted health data from on-premises systems to a secure data lake in the cloud.

Perception Point announced its Advanced Threat Protection service for Amazon Web Services environments to protect joint customers' data and stop malicious content - files and URLs - from infiltrating their Amazon Simple Storage Service buckets. Enterprises and innovative SaaS vendors are increasingly storing their internal data as well files received from external sources in Amazon S3 buckets.

Amazon-owned Ring has announced starting the worldwide roll out of video End-to-End Encryption to customers with compatible devices. "Today, we're proud to announce that we're moving it out of technical preview and expanding the feature's availability to customers around the world," Ring said.

With this year's Amazon Prime Day set for June 21-22, scammers are already touting "Early Prime Day Deals," says Bolster. Amazon Prime Day represents an opportunity for consumers to find deals and save money on their favorite products.

Amazon this week activated its proprietary mesh network known as Sidewalk, linking tens of millions of Amazon smart devices, each sharing a tiny sliver of their bandwidth to provide a wide network of connectivity even when and where WiFi service is poor or unavailable. This explains why the default setting contained in the Sidewalk software downloaded and installed by Amazon in participating devices is 'on' - making Sidewalk opt-out rather than opt-in.

Amazon will be launching the Amazon Sidewalk service on Tuesday that automatically opts-in your Echo and Ring devices into a new feature that shares your Internet with your neighbors. This service aims to provide Internet access to your neighbor's devices when their Internet goes down or to give access to Amazon devices roaming throughout a neighborhood.

An AWS Technology Partner, Baffle Data Protection Services enables de-identification, encryption, and masking of data in the cloud to ensure compliance with data privacy regulations and reduce the risk of data breaches and leaks. Baffle is the first and only vendor that allows customers to migrate data to the cloud, simultaneously de-identify the data, and seamlessly facilitate reporting and analytics on Amazon RDS. This comprehensive data protection capability operates with no impact on business intelligence or analyst functions.

Owners of Amazon Echo assistants and Ring doorbells have until June 8 to avoid automatically opting into Sidewalk, the internet giant's mesh network that taps into people's broadband and may prove to be a privacy nightmare. The idea is that if your internet connection goes down or is interrupted, your Amazon smart home devices will still be able to communicate with the outside world, and send out alerts or take instructions, by wirelessly connecting to neighbors' Sidewalk-compatible gadgets and using their internet connection instead. These Sidewalk gizmos communicate with one another using Bluetooth Low Energy over short distances and 900MHz LoRa over longer ranges, and use Wi-Fi to reach the public internet and Amazon's backend servers.

Amazon initially announced Sidewalk in September 2019, describing it as a "New, long-term effort to greatly extend the working range of low-bandwidth, low-power, smart lights, sensors, and other low-cost devices customers install at the edge of their home network." While Sidewalk has been in the works for a few years, the news of the June 8 deadline for turning it on seems to have caught many by surprise: It gives consumers just a week to learn about the initiative and to opt out if they so choose. As Amazon describes it, Sidewalk will do things like keep motion alerts from security cameras coming even when the Wi-Fi goes down; will stretch Wi-Fi out to smart lights at the edge of your driveway; and could act like Tile tags to help customers find pets and valuables.