While the scale, speed, and agility afforded by public cloud infrastructure can significantly improve business outcomes, security can suffer. Getting a clear, real-time understanding of the network topology within a cloud infrastructure provider has historically been a manual process. AWS Shield network security director can help organizations simplify and accelerate obtaining visibility, along with important context around what should be addressed first based on criticality. Leveraging Amazon Q for natural language querying and remediation recommendations can also help non-security team members benefit from this solution.

AWS Shield network security director is a good first step and will meet most customers where they are now. As organizations’ comfort level with generative AI and AI-led automation continues to grow, it will be important for AWS to expand the offering to include these capabilities as well. This will help further democratize security and enable non-security personas to benefit.