Microsoft Ignite isn’t the only enterprise technology conference going on this week. CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., the recently public cybersecurity provider, is hosting an event of its own in California today where it unveiled new features for its flagship Falcon endpoint protection software.

The main highlight: The product is now available on Amazon Web Services via the cloud platform’s third party application marketplace.

The AWS version of Falcon uses the same kind of pay-as-you-go pricing model as the cloud platform itself. It can run on all the main varieties of compute infrastructure that the Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary provides. “In addition to supporting EC2 instances, Falcon for AWS supports Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) containers,” CrowdStrike Chief Executive Officer George Kurtz (pictured) wrote in a blog post.

Falcon’s cloud container support builds on a key enhancement the company announced in conjunction with the AWS partnership. CrowdStrike increased the amount of data that Falcon collects about containerized applications, allowing it to look at parameters such as a container’s unique identifier and configuration type. The company said that increased context will enable administrators to map out potential security issues faster.

Also new is the Falcon Firewall Management module. Administrators can now use the company’s endpoint protection software to manage the respective built-in firewalls of Windows and Linux, meaning they no longer have to install a separate tool for the task.

“The single management console for both endpoint protection and host firewall management streamlines workflows and increases visibility across endpoint security controls,” Amol Kulkarni, CrowdStrike’s chief product officer, detailed in a separate post today. 

CrowdStrike unveiled a number of other upgrades as well, including a feature that allows Falcon to find insecure applications running on a firm’s systems. And to cover tasks that the software can’t yet perform, the company provides a marketplace of third-party applications not dissimilar to the one AWS operates. That marketplace also received an update today in the form of six partner-developed tools spanning areas ranging from security analytics to hacker deception.

While the new features will expand the number of use cases CrowdStrike can address, the move to bring Falcon to AWS will expand its market reach. AWS is used by millions of companies that all need a way to keep their deployments secure. CrowdStrike already provided a version of its software for Google LLC’s rival cloud platform before today and Microsoft Azure is presumably next on the checklist. 

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