The ELK Stack, which traditionally consisted of three main components — Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana, has long departed from this composition and can now also be used in conjunction with a fourth element called “Beats” — a family of log shippers for different use cases. It is this departure that has led to the stack being renamed as the Elastic Stack.
Amazon has enabled a great new feature for cloud security: Default Encryption for New EBS Volumes. When enabled in a region, any new EBS volume that is created will automatically by encrypted with the configured KMS key. At first glance, this sounds great. However, here there be monsters, as the saying goes, if you are copying EBS snapshots or AMI images across AWS accounts.