Improve the security of your software supply chain with Amazon CodeArtifact package group configuration

The article discusses the new package group configuration capability in AWS CodeArtifact, a fully managed package repository service. This feature allows administrators to manage configuration for multiple packages in one place.

Specifically, the article covers:

• The importance of controlling how packages are updated in software supply chains to prevent supply chain attacks like typosquatting and dependency confusion.
• How CodeArtifact previously allowed configuring package origin controls only on a per-package basis, and the new package group configuration allows managing groups of packages using a pattern-based approach.
• A step-by-step example of how an administrator can create a package group for the Python boto3 package, allowing updates only from an internal upstream repository and blocking updates from external repositories and internal publishing.
• How package groups can help prevent dependency substitution attacks by blocking external packages that match a certain naming pattern.
• The availability of package groups across all AWS regions where CodeArtifact is available, at no additional cost.