As the capabilities of quantum computing evolve, AWS is committed to helping our customers stay ahead of emerging threats to public-key cryptography. Today, we’re announcing the integration of FIPS 204: Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Standard (ML-DSA) into AWS Key Management Service…
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AI security strategies from Amazon and the CIA: Insights from AWS Summit Washington, DC
At this year’s AWS Summit in Washington, DC, I had the privilege of moderating a fireside chat with Steve Schmidt, Amazon’s Chief Security Officer, and Lakshmi Raman, the CIA’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer. Our discussion explored how AI is transforming…
AWS CIRT announces the launch of the Threat Technique Catalog for AWS
Greetings from the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (AWS CIRT). AWS CIRT is a 24/7, specialized global Amazon Web Services (AWS) team that provides support to customers during active security events on the customer side of the AWS Shared Responsibility…
Introducing the AWS Security Champion Knowledge Path and digital badge
Today, Amazon Web Service (AWS) introduces the Security Champion Knowledge Path on AWS Skill Builder, featuring training and a digital badge. The Security Champion Knowledge path is a comprehensive educational framework designed to empower developers and software engineers with essential…
AWS completes Police-Assured Secure Facilities (PASF) audit in Europe (London) AWS Region
We’re excited to announce that our Europe (London) AWS Region has renewed its accreditation for United Kingdom (UK) Police-Assured Secure Facilities (PASF) for Official-Sensitive data. Since 2017, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Europe (London) Region has been accredited under the…
Building identity-first security: A guide to the Identity and Access Management track at AWS re:Inforce 2025
Join us at AWS re:Inforce 2025 from June 16 to 18 as we dive deep into identity and access management, where we’ll explore how organizations are securing identities at scale. As the traditional security perimeter continues to dissolve in our…
Building secure foundations: A guide to network and infrastructure security at AWS re:Inforce 2025
A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code flashsale150 to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last. Securing cloud infrastructure has never been more critical as organizations continue to expand their digital footprint and embrace…
2025 ISO and CSA STAR certificates now available with three new Regions
Amazon Web Services (AWS) successfully completed an onboarding audit with no findings for ISO 9001:2015, 27001:2022, 27017:2015, 27018:2019, 27701:2019, 20000-1:2018, and 22301:2019, and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) STAR Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0. EY CertifyPoint auditors conducted the audit and…
How to use on-demand rotation for AWS KMS imported keys
Today, we’re announcing support for on-demand rotation of symmetric encryption AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys with imported key material (EXTERNAL origin). This new capability enables you to rotate the cryptographic key material of these keys without changing the…
Many voices, one community: Three themes from RSA Conference 2025
RSA Conference (RSAC) 2025 drew 730 speakers, 650 exhibitors, and 44,000 attendees from across the globe to the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California from April 28 through May 1. The keynote lineup was eclectic, with 37 presentations featuring speakers ranging from…
Implementing just-in-time privileged access to AWS with Microsoft Entra and AWS IAM Identity Center
Controlling access to your privileged and sensitive resources is critical for all AWS customers. Preventing direct human interaction with services and systems through automation is the primary means of accomplishing this. For those infrequent times when automation is not yet…
A deep dive into data protection sessions at AWS re:Inforce 2025
A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code flashsale150 to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), security is our top priority. We’re excited to announce the Data Protection track…
Application security at re:Inforce 2025
A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code flashsale150 to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last. Join us in Philadelphia on June 16–18, 2025, for AWS re:Inforce, where you can enhance your skills and confidence…
Introducing new regional implementations of Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS to support digital sovereignty
Customers often tell me that they want a simpler path to meet the compliance and industry regulatory mandates they have in their geographic regions. In our deep engagements with partners and customers, we have learned that one of the greatest…
How to use the new AWS Secrets Manager Cost Allocation Tags feature
AWS Secrets Manager is a service that you can use to manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, application credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycles. You can use Secrets Manager to replace hard-coded credentials in application source code…
Elevate your AI security: Must-see re:Inforce 2025 sessions
A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code flashsale150 to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last. From proof of concepts to large scale production deployments, the rapid advancement of generative AI has ushered in…
Navigating the threat detection and incident response track at re:Inforce 2025
A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code flashsale150 to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last. We’re counting down to AWS re:Inforce, our annual cloud security event! We are thrilled to invite security enthusiasts…
How to automate incident response for Amazon EKS on Amazon EC2
Triaging and quickly responding to security events is important to minimize impact within an AWS environment. Acting in a standardized manner is equally important when it comes to capturing forensic evidence and quarantining resources. By implementing automated solutions, you can…
Introducing the AWS User Guide to Governance, Risk and Compliance for Responsible AI Adoption within Financial Services Industries
Financial services institutions (FSIs) are increasingly adopting AI technologies to drive innovation and improve customer experiences. However, this adoption brings new governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) considerations that organizations need to address. To help FSI customers navigate these challenges, AWS…
Protect against advanced DNS threats with Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall
Every day, millions of applications seamlessly connect users to the digital services they need through DNS queries. These queries act as an interface to the internet’s address book, translating familiar domain names like amazon.com into the IP addresses that computers…
AI lifecycle risk management: ISO/IEC 42001:2023 for AI governance
As AI becomes central to business operations, so does the need for responsible AI governance. But how can you make sure that your AI systems are ethical, resilient, and aligned with compliance standards? ISO/IEC 42001, the international management system standard…
Mapping AWS security services to MITRE frameworks for threat detection and mitigation
In the cloud security landscape, organizations benefit from aligning their controls and practices with industry standard frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK®, MITRE EngageTM, and MITRE D3FENDTM. MITRE frameworks are structured, openly accessible models that document threat actor behaviors to help…
Monitoring and optimizing the cost of the unused access analyzer in IAM Access Analyzer
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer is a feature that you can use to identify resources in your AWS organization and accounts that are shared with external entities and to identify unused access. In this post, we explore…
Implementing safety guardrails for applications using Amazon SageMaker
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become essential tools for content generation, document analysis, and natural language processing tasks. Because of the complex non-deterministic output generated by these models, you need to apply robust safety measures to help prevent inappropriate outputs…
How to manage migration of hsm1.medium CloudHSM clusters to hsm2m.medium
On August 20, 2024, we announced the general availability of the new AWS CloudHSM instance type hsm2m.medium (hsm2). This new type comes with additional features compared to the previous AWS CloudHSM instance type, hsm1.medium (hsm1), such as support for Federal…
AWS expands Spain’s ENS High certification across 174 services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has successfully renewed its Esquema Nacional de Seguridad (ENS) High certification under the latest framework established by Royal Decree 311/2022. This achievement demonstrates the continued dedication of AWS to meeting the stringent security requirements essential for…
AWS renews its AAA Pinakes rating for the Spanish financial sector
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has successfully revalidated its prestigious AAA rating under the Pinakes qualification system, with certification coverage extending to 174 services across 31 global AWS Regions. This achievement marks a significant milestone in the commitment of AWS to…
Introducing the AWS User Guide to Governance, Risk and Compliance for Responsible AI Adoption within Financial Services Industries
Financial services institutions (FSIs) are increasingly adopting AI technologies to drive innovation and improve customer experiences. However, this adoption brings new governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) considerations that organizations need to address. To help FSI customers navigate these challenges, AWS…
Introducing the AWS Zero Trust Accelerator for Government
Government agencies face an unprecedented challenge when designing security against unauthorized access to IT infrastructure and data. Traditional perimeter-based security models—which rely on the assumption of trust within an organization’s network boundaries—are no longer sufficient. The wide adoption of bring-your-own-device…
Use an Amazon Bedrock powered chatbot with Amazon Security Lake to help investigate incidents
In part 2 of this series, we showed you how to use Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks with natural language input to assist with threat hunting. This is done by using SageMaker Studio to automatically generate and run SQL queries on…
How to use AWS Transfer Family and GuardDuty for malware protection
Organizations often need to securely share files with external parties over the internet. Allowing public access to a file transfer server exposes the organization to potential threats, such as malware-infected files uploaded by threat actors or inadvertently by genuine users.…
How to import existing AWS Organizations SCPs and RCPs to CloudFormation
Many AWS Organizations customers begin by creating and manually applying service control policies (SCPs) and resource control policies (RCPs) through the AWS Management Console or AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) when they first set up their environments. However, as the organization…
AWS empowers global security culture at Wicked6 Cyber Games
Wicked6 Cyber Games 2025 brought hundreds of women together worldwide from March 28–30. This dynamic virtual competition, sponsored by Amazon Web Services (AWS), helped attendees tackle real-world cybersecurity challenges through e-sports experiences. With 72 hours of women talking about cybersecurity,…
Announcing AWS Security Reference Architecture Code Examples for Generative AI
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the release of new Security Reference Architecture (SRA) code examples for securing generative AI workloads. The examples include two comprehensive capabilities focusing on secure model inference and RAG implementations, covering a wide…
How to help prevent hotlinking using referer checking, AWS WAF, and Amazon CloudFront
Note: This post was first published April 21, 2016. The updated version aligns with the latest version of AWS WAF (AWS WAF v2) and includes screenshots that reflect the changes in the AWS console experience. AWS WAF Classic has been…
How to support OpenID AuthZEN requests with Amazon Verified Permissions
OpenID Foundation’s AuthZEN Working Group is currently drafting a new specification (version 1.0, draft 03 at the time of publication) and associated standard mechanisms, protocols, and formats to communicate authorization-related information between components involved in access control and authorization. Today,…
Enhanced Network Security Control: Flow Management with AWS Network Firewall
AWS Network Firewall is a managed, stateful network firewall and intrusion detection and prevention service. It allows you to implement security rules for fine-grained control of your VPC network traffic. In this blog post, we discuss flow capture and flow…
Automating AWS Private CA audit reports and certificate expiration alerts
Today’s organizations rely heavily on secure and reliable communication channels and digital certificates play a crucial role in securing internal and external-facing infrastructure by establishing trust and enabling encrypted communication. While public certificates are commonly used to secure internet applications,…
AWS completes the 2025 Cyber Essentials Plus certification
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the successful renewal of the United Kingdom Cyber Essentials Plus certification. The Cyber Essentials Plus certificate is valid for one year until March 21, 2026. Cyber Essentials Plus is a UK Government-backed,…
ML-KEM post-quantum TLS now supported in AWS KMS, ACM, and Secrets Manager
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce that the latest hybrid post-quantum key agreement standards for TLS have been deployed to three AWS services. Today, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), and AWS Secrets Manager…
AWS achieves Cloud Security Assurance Program (CSAP) low-tier certification in AWS Seoul Region
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the successful completion of the Cloud Security Assurance Program (CSAP) low-tier certification for the AWS Seoul (ICN) Region for the very first time. The certification is valid for a period of five…
Planning for your IAM Roles Anywhere deployment
IAM Roles Anywhere is a feature of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) that enables you to use X.509 certificates from your public key infrastructure (PKI) to request temporary Amazon Web Services (AWS) security credentials. By using IAM Roles Anywhere, your workloads, applications, containers,…
AWS continues to support government cloud security and shape FedRAMP’s evolution toward automated compliance
AWS has been a proud participant in FedRAMP since 2013. As FedRAMP continues to modernize federal cloud security assessments, we are excited to support this transformation toward a more automated and efficient compliance framework. Today, we’re emphasizing our support for…
Enhancing cloud security in AI/ML: The little pickle story
As AI and machine learning (AI/ML) become increasingly accessible through cloud service providers (CSPs) such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), new security issues can arise that customers need to address. AWS provides a variety of services for AI/ML use cases,…
Winter 2024 SOC 1 report is now available with 183 services in scope
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Winter 2024 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1 report is now available. The report covers 183 services over the 12-month period from January 1, 2024, to December 31, 2024, giving customers…
Effectively implementing resource control policies in a multi-account environment
Every organization strives to empower teams to drive innovation while safeguarding their data and systems from unintended access. For organizations that have thousands of Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources spread across multiple accounts, organization-wide permissions guardrails can help maintain secure…
Effectively implementing resource controls policies in a multi-account environment
Every organization strives to empower teams to drive innovation while safeguarding their data and systems from unintended access. For organizations that have thousands of Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources spread across multiple accounts, organization-wide permissions guardrails can help maintain secure…
Use AWS service reference information to automate policy management workflows
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides service reference information in JSON format to help you automate policy management workflows. With the service reference information, you can access available actions across AWS services from machine-readable files. The service reference information helps to…
2024 H2 IRAP report is now available on AWS Artifact for Australian customers
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce that a new Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) report (2024 H2) is now available through AWS Artifact. An independent Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) certified IRAP assessor completed the IRAP assessment of AWS in February 2025. The…
AWS completes the annual UAE Information Assurance Regulation compliance assessment
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the publication of our annual compliance assessment report on the Information Assurance Regulation (IAR) established by the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The report…
AWS KMS CloudWatch metrics help you better track and understand how your KMS keys are being used
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is pleased to launch key-level filtering for AWS KMS API usage in Amazon CloudWatch metrics, providing enhanced visibility to help customers improve their operational efficiency and aid in security and compliance risk management. AWS KMS…
Secure cloud innovation starts at re:Inforce 2025
Every day, I talk with security leaders who are navigating a critical balancing act. On one side, their organizations are moving faster than ever, adopting transformative technologies like generative AI and expanding their cloud footprint. On the other, they’re working…
Manage authorization within a containerized workload using Amazon Verified Permissions
Containerization offers organizations significant benefits such as portability, scalability, and efficient resource utilization. However, managing access control and authorization for containerized workloads across diverse environments—from on-premises to multi-cloud setups—can be challenging. This blog post explores four architectural patterns that use…
AWS completes the annual Dubai Electronic Security Centre certification audit to operate as a Tier 1 cloud service provider in the Emirate of Dubai
We’re excited to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has completed the annual Dubai Electronic Security Centre (DESC) certification audit to operate as a Tier 1 Cloud Service Provider (CSP) for the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. This alignment with…
2025 ISO and CSA STAR certificates now available with four additional services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) successfully completed an onboarding audit with no findings for ISO 9001:2015, 27001:2022, 27017:2015, 27018:2019, 27701:2019, 20000-1:2018, and 22301:2019, and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) STAR Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0. EY CertifyPoint auditors conducted the audit and…
Support Canada’s CCCS PBHVA overlay compliance with the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS
Organizations seeking to adhere to the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) Protected B High Value Assets (PBHVA) overlay requirements can use the Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA) on AWS solution with the CCCS Medium configuration to accelerate their compliance journey.…
Four ways to grant cross-account access in AWS
As your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment grows, you might develop a need to grant cross-account access to resources. This could be for various reasons, such as enabling centralized operations across multiple AWS accounts, sharing resources across teams or projects…
Connect your on-premises Kubernetes cluster to AWS APIs using IAM Roles Anywhere
Many customers want to seamlessly integrate their on-premises Kubernetes workloads with AWS services, implement hybrid workloads, or migrate to AWS. Previously, a common approach involved creating long-term access keys, which posed security risks and is no longer recommended. While solutions…
From log analysis to rule creation: How AWS Network Firewall automates domain-based security for outbound traffic
When it comes to controlling incoming (ingress) and outgoing (egress) network traffic, organizations typically focus heavily on inbound traffic controls—carefully restricting what traffic can enter their network perimeter. However, this approach addresses only inbound security challenges. Modern applications rely heavily…
How to restrict Amazon S3 bucket access to a specific IAM role
February 14, 2025: This post was updated with the recommendation to restrict S3 bucket access to an IAM role by using the aws:PrincipalArn condition key instead of the aws:userid condition key. April 2, 2021: In the section “Granting cross-account bucket…
Introducing the AWS Trust Center
We’re launching the AWS Trust Center, a new online resource that shares how we approach securing your assets in the cloud. The AWS Trust Center is a window into our security practices, compliance programs, and data protection controls that demonstrates…
The importance of encryption and how AWS can help
February 12, 2025: This post was republished to include new services and features that have launched since the original publication date of June 11, 2020. Encryption is a critical component of a defense-in-depth security strategy that uses multiple defensive mechanisms…
Implementing least privilege access for Amazon Bedrock
Generative AI applications often involve a combination of various services and features—such as Amazon Bedrock and large language models (LLMs)—to generate content and to access potentially confidential data. This combination requires strong identity and access management controls and is special…
Announcing ASCP integration with Pod Identity: Enhanced security for secrets management in Amazon EKS
In 2021, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced the AWS Secrets and Configuration Provider (ASCP) for the Kubernetes Secrets Store Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver, offering a reliable way to manage secrets in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Today, we’re…
Enhancing telecom security with AWS
If you’d like to skip directly to the detailed mapping between the CISA guidance and AWS security controls and best practices, visit our Github page. Implementing CISA’s enhanced visibility and hardening guidance for communications infrastructure In response to recent cybersecurity…
2024 FINMA ISAE 3000 Type II attestation report available with 179 services in scope
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the issuance of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) Type II attestation report with 179 services in scope. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has published several requirements and guidelines…
2024 PiTuKri ISAE 3000 Type II attestation report available with 179 services in scope
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the issuance of the Criteria to Assess the Information Security of Cloud Services (PiTuKri) Type II attestation report with 179 services in scope. The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency (Traficom) Cyber Security…
AWS renews MTCS Level 3 certification under the SS584:2020 standard
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the renewal of the Multi-Tier Cloud Security (MTCS) Level 3 certification under the SS584:2020 standard in December 2024 for the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and United States AWS Regions, excluding AWS GovCloud…
How AWS Network Firewall session state replication maximizes high availability for your application traffic
AWS Network Firewall is a managed, stateful network firewall and intrusion protection service that you can use to implement firewall rules for fine grained control over your network traffic. With Network Firewall, you can filter traffic at the perimeter of…
Implement effective data authorization mechanisms to secure your data used in generative AI applications – part 2
In part 1 of this blog series, we walked through the risks associated with using sensitive data as part of your generative AI application. This overview provided a baseline of the challenges of using sensitive data with a non-deterministic large…
Amazon Redshift enhances security by changing default behavior in 2025
Today, I’m thrilled to announce that Amazon Redshift, a widely used, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse, is taking a significant step forward in strengthening the default security posture of our customers’ data warehouses. Some default security settings for newly created…
How to deploy an Amazon OpenSearch cluster to ingest logs from Amazon Security Lake
January 30, 2025: This post was republished to make the instructions clearer and compatible with OCSF 1.1. Customers often require multiple log sources across their AWS environment to empower their teams to respond and investigate security events. In part one…
Updated whitepaper available: Aligning to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework in the AWS Cloud
Today, we released an updated version of the Aligning to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) in the AWS Cloud whitepaper to reflect the significant changes introduced in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0, published…
Testing and evaluating GuardDuty detections
Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors, analyzes, and processes Amazon Web Services (AWS) data sources and logs in your AWS environment. GuardDuty uses threat intelligence feeds, such as lists of malicious IP addresses and domains, file…
AWS Firewall Manager retrofitting: Harmonizing central security with application team flexibility
AWS Firewall Manager is a powerful tool that organizations can use to define common AWS WAF rules with centralized security policies. These policies specify which accounts and resources are in scope. Firewall Manager creates a web access control list (web…
Announcing upcoming changes to the AWS Security Token Service global endpoint
AWS launched AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) in August 2011 with a single global endpoint (https://sts.amazonaws.com), hosted in the US East (N. Virginia) AWS Region. To reduce dependency on a single Region, STS launched AWS STS Regional endpoints (https://sts.{Region_identifier}.{partition_domain})…
Building a culture of security: AWS partners with the BBC
Cybersecurity isn’t just about technology—it’s about people. That’s why Amazon Web Services (AWS) partnered with the BBC to explore the human side of cybersecurity in our latest article, The Human Side of Cybersecurity: Building a Culture of Security, available on…
2024 C5 Type 2 attestation report available with 179 services in scope
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce a successful completion of the 2024 Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalogue (C5) attestation cycle with 179 services in scope. This alignment with C5 requirements demonstrates our ongoing commitment to adhere to the…
CCN releases guide for Spain’s ENS landing zones using Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS
Spanish version » The Spanish National Cryptologic Center (CCN) has published a new STIC guide (CCN-STIC-887 Anexo A) that provides a comprehensive template and supporting artifacts for implementing landing zones that comply with Spain’s National Security Framework (ENS) Royal Decree…
Using OSCAL to express Canadian cybersecurity requirements as compliance-as-code
The Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL) is a project led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that allows security professionals to express control-related information in machine-readable formats. Expressing compliance information in this way allows security practitioners…
Safeguard your generative AI workloads from prompt injections
Generative AI applications have become powerful tools for creating human-like content, but they also introduce new security challenges, including prompt injections, excessive agency, and others. See the OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications to learn more about the…
Preventing unintended encryption of Amazon S3 objects
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), the security of our customers’ data is our top priority, and it always will be. Recently, the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT) and our automated security monitoring systems identified an increase in unusual encryption…
AWS achieves HDS certification for 24 AWS Regions
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce a successful completion of the Health Data Hosting (Hébergeur de Données de Santé, HDS) certification audit, and renewal of the HDS certification for 24 AWS Regions. The Agence du Numérique en Santé (ANS), the French…
How to implement IAM policy checks with Visual Studio Code and IAM Access Analyzer
In a previous blog post, we introduced the IAM Access Analyzer custom policy check feature, which allows you to validate your policies against custom rules. Now we’re taking a step further and bringing these policy checks directly into your development…
AWS re:Invent 2024: Security, identity, and compliance recap
AWS re:Invent 2024 was held in Las Vegas December 2–6, with over 54,000 attendees participating in more than 2,300 sessions and hands-on labs. The conference was a hub of innovation and learning hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing…
How to monitor, optimize, and secure Amazon Cognito machine-to-machine authorization
Amazon Cognito is a developer-centric and security-focused customer identity and access management (CIAM) service that simplifies the process of adding user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your mobile and web applications. Cognito is a highly available service that supports…
Securing a city-sized event: How Amazon integrates physical and logical security at re:Invent
Securing an event of the magnitude of AWS re:Invent—the Amazon Web Services annual conference in Las Vegas—is no small feat. The most recent event, in December, operated on the scale of a small city, spanning seven venues over twelve miles…
New AWS Skill Builder course available: Securing Generative AI on AWS
To support our customers in securing their generative AI workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are excited to announce the launch of a new AWS Skill Builder course: Securing Generative AI on AWS. This comprehensive course is designed to…
Customize the scope of IAM Access Analyzer unused access analysis
AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer simplifies inspecting unused access to guide you towards least privilege. You can use unused access findings to identify over-permissive access granted to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and users in your accounts or…
How to enhance Amazon Macie data discovery capabilities using Amazon Textract
Amazon Macie is a managed service that uses machine learning (ML) and deterministic pattern matching to help discover sensitive data that’s stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. Macie can detect sensitive data in many different formats, including…
2024 ISO and CSA STAR certificates now available with two additional services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) successfully completed a surveillance audit with no findings for ISO 9001:2015, 27001:2022, 27017:2015, 27018:2019, 27701:2019, 20000-1:2018, and 22301:2019, and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) STAR Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0. EY CertifyPoint auditors conducted the audit and…
AWS completes the CCCS PBHVA assessment with 149 services and features in scope
We continue to expand the scope of our assurance programs at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and are pleased to announce the successful completion of our first ever Protected B High Value Assets (PBHVA) assessment with 149 assessed services and features.…
Fall 2024 SOC 1, 2, and 3 reports now available with 183 services in scope
We continue to expand the scope of our assurance programs at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and are pleased to announce that the Fall 2024 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available. The reports cover…
Updated PCI DSS and PCI PIN compliance packages now available
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce enhancements to our Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance portfolio, further empowering AWS customers to build and manage secure, compliant payment environments with greater ease and flexibility. PCI Data Security Standard (DSS): Our…
AWS named Leader in the 2024 ISG Provider Lens report for Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure Services (EU)
For the second year in a row, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is named as a Leader in the Information Services Group (ISG) Provider Lens Quadrant report for Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure Services (EU), published on December 18, 2024. ISG is a…
Enforce resource configuration to control access to new features with AWS
Establishing and maintaining an effective security and governance posture has never been more important for enterprises. This post explains how you, as a security administrator, can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enforce resource configurations in a manner that is…
AWS KMS: How many keys do I need?
As organizations continue their cloud journeys, effective data security in the cloud is a top priority. Whether it’s protecting customer information, intellectual property, or compliance-mandated data, encryption serves as a fundamental security control. This is where AWS Key Management Service…
Generative AI adoption and compliance: Simplifying the path forward with AWS Audit Manager
As organizations increasingly use generative AI to streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and gain a competitive edge in today’s fast-paced business environment, they seek mechanisms for measuring and monitoring their use of AI services. To help you navigate the process of…
Introducing the AWS Network Firewall CloudWatch Dashboard
Amazon CloudWatch dashboards are customizable pages in the CloudWatch console that you can use to monitor your resources in a single view. This post focuses on deploying a CloudWatch dashboard that you can use to create a customizable monitoring solution…
Securing the future: building a culture of security
According to a 2024 Verizon report, nearly 70% of data breaches occurred because a person was manipulated by social engineering or made some type of error. This highlights the importance of human-layer defenses in an organization’s security strategy. In addition…