In this post, we show how to configure customer trust stores to work with public certificates issued through AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). Organizations can encounter challenges when configuring trust stores for ACM certificates and incorrect trust store configuration can lead…
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Should I use managed login or create a custom UI in Amazon Cognito?
October 8, 2025: This blog post has been updated to include the Amazon Cognito managed login experience. The managed login experience has an updated look, additional features, and enhanced customization options. September 8, 2023: It’s important to know that if…
New AWS whitepaper: Security Overview of Amazon EKS Auto Mode
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new whitepaper: Security Overview of Amazon EKS Auto Mode, providing customers with an in-depth look at the architecture, built-in security features, and capabilities of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode. The…
Defending against supply chain attacks like Chalk/Debug and the Shai-Hulud worm
Building on top of open source packages can help accelerate development. By using common libraries and modules from npm, PyPI, Maven Central, NuGet, and others, teams can focus on writing code that is unique to their situation. These open source…
Defending LLM applications against Unicode character smuggling
When interacting with AI applications, even seemingly innocent elements—such as Unicode characters—can have significant implications for security and data integrity. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we continuously evaluate and address emerging threats across aspects of AI systems. In this blog…
Build secure network architectures for generative AI applications using AWS services
As generative AI becomes foundational across industries—powering everything from conversational agents to real-time media synthesis—it simultaneously creates new opportunities for bad actors to exploit. The complex architectures behind generative AI applications expose a large surface area including public-facing APIs, inference…
How to develop an AWS Security Hub POC
The enhanced AWS Security Hub (currently in public preview) prioritizes your critical security issues and helps you respond at scale to protect your environment. It detects critical issues by correlating and enriching signals into actionable insights, enabling streamlined response. You…
Enabling AI adoption at scale through enterprise risk management framework – Part 1
According to BCG research, 84% of executives view responsible AI as a top management responsibility, yet only 25% of them have programs that fully address it. Responsible AI can be achieved through effective governance, and with the rapid adoption of…
Enabling AI adoption at scale through enterprise risk management framework – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we explored the fundamental risks and governance considerations. In this part, we examine practical strategies for adapting your enterprise risk management framework (ERMF) to harness generative AI’s power while maintaining robust controls. This part…
Optimize security operations with AWS Security Incident Response
Security threats demand swift action, which is why AWS Security Incident Response delivers AWS-native protection that can immediately strengthen your security posture. This comprehensive solution combines automated triage and evaluation logic with your security perimeter metadata to identify critical issues,…
Minimize risk through defense in depth: Building a comprehensive AWS control framework
Security and governance teams across all environments face a common challenge: translating abstract security and governance requirements into a concrete, integrated control framework. AWS services provide capabilities that organizations can use to implement controls across multiple layers of their architecture—from…
How to accelerate security finding reviews using automated business context validation in AWS Security Hub
Security teams must efficiently validate and document exceptions to AWS Security Hub findings, while maintaining proper governance. Enterprise security teams need to make sure that exceptions to security best practices are properly validated and documented, while development teams need a…
Unlock new possibilities: AWS Organizations service control policy now supports full IAM language
Amazon Web Service (AWS) recently announced that AWS Organizations now offers full AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy language support for service control policies (SCPs). With this feature, you can use conditions, individual resource Amazon Resource Names (ARNs), and the NotAction…
Summer 2025 SOC 1 report is now available with 183 services in scope
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Summer 2025 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1 report is now available. The report covers 183 services over the 12-month period from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, giving customers…
Authorizing access to data with RAG implementations
Organizations are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) to provide new types of customer interactions through generative AI-powered chatbots, virtual assistants, and intelligent search capabilities. To enhance these interactions, organizations are using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to incorporate proprietary data, industry-specific…
Enhance TLS inspection with SNI session holding in AWS Network Firewall
AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that filters and controls network traffic in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Unlike traditional network controls such as security groups or network access control lists (NACLs), Network Firewall can inspect and…
How we built a flywheel to steadily improve security for Amazon RDS
I joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a principal security engineer 3 years ago and my first project was leading security for PL/Rust on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). This is an extension that lets you write custom functions…
2025 ISO and CSA STAR certificates now available with two 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…
Automate OIDC client secret rotation with Application Load Balancer
Elastic Load Balancing simplifies authentication by offloading it to OpenID Connect (OIDC) compatible identity providers (IdPs). This lets builders focus on application logic while using robust identity management. OIDC client secrets are confidential credentials used in OAuth 2.0 and OIDC…
Multi-Region keys: A new approach to key replication in AWS Payment Cryptography
In our previous blog post (Part 1 of our key replication series), Automatically replicate your card payment keys across AWS Regions, we explored an event-driven, serverless architecture using AWS PrivateLink to securely replicate card payment keys across AWS Regions. That…