As AI agents become part of your development workflows on Amazon Web Services (AWS), you want them to work with your existing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions, not force you to build a separate permissions model. At the…
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AWS successfully completed its first surveillance audit for ISO 42001:2023 with no findings
In November 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the first major cloud service provider to announce the ISO/IEC 42001 accredited certification for AI services, covering: Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q Business, Amazon Textract, and Amazon Transcribe. In November 2025, AWS successfully…
Inside AWS Security Agent: A multi-agent architecture for automated penetration testing
AI agents have traditionally faced three core limitations: they can’t retain learned information or operate autonomously beyond short periods, and they require constant supervision. AWS addresses these limitations with frontier agents—a new category of AI that performs complex reasoning, multi-step…
AI-augmented threat actor accesses FortiGate devices at scale
Commercial AI services are enabling even unsophisticated threat actors to conduct cyberattacks at scale—a trend Amazon Threat Intelligence has been tracking closely. A recent investigation illustrates this shift: Amazon Threat Intelligence observed a Russian-speaking financially motivated threat actor leveraging multiple…
Building an AI-powered defense-in-depth security architecture for serverless microservices
Enterprise customers face an unprecedented security landscape where sophisticated cyber threats use artificial intelligence to identify vulnerabilities, automate attacks, and evade detection at machine speed. Traditional perimeter-based security models are insufficient when adversaries can analyze millions of attack vectors in…
Explore scaling options for AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory
You can use AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory as your primary Active Directory Forest for hosting your users’ identities. Your IT teams can continue using existing skills and applications while your organization benefits from the enhanced security, reliability,…
How to get started with security response automation on AWS
At AWS, we encourage you to use automation. Not just to deploy your workloads and configure services, but to also help you quickly detect and respond to security events within your AWS environments. In addition to increasing the speed of…
File integrity monitoring with AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Security Lake
Customers need solutions to track inventory data such as files and software across Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, detect unauthorized changes, and integrate alerts into their existing security workflows. In this blog post, I walk you through a…
IAM Identity Center now supports IPv6
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recommends using AWS IAM Identity Center to provide your workforce access to AWS managed applications—such as Amazon Q Developer—and AWS accounts. Today, we announced IAM Identity Center support for IPv6. To learn more about the advantages…
Updated PCI PIN compliance package for AWS CloudHSM now available
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the successful completion of Payment Card Industry Personal Identification Number (PCI PIN) audit for the AWS CloudHSM service. With CloudHSM, you can manage and access your keys on FIPS 140-3 Level 3…
Updated PCI PIN compliance package for AWS Payment Cryptography now available
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the successful completion of Payment Card Industry Personal Identification Number (PCI PIN) audit for the AWS Payment Cryptography service. With AWS Payment Cryptography, your payment processing applications can use payment hardware security…
AWS achieves 2025 C5 Type 2 attestation report with 183 services in scope
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce a successful completion of the 2025 Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (C5) attestation cycle with 183 services in scope. This alignment with C5 requirements demonstrates our ongoing commitment to adhere to the…
AWS renews the GSMA SAS-SM certification for two AWS Regions and expands to cover four new Regions
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the expansion of GSMA Security Accreditation Scheme for Subscription Management (SAS-SM) certification to four new AWS Regions: US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Additionally, the AWS…
Exploring common centralized and decentralized approaches to secrets management
One of the most common questions about secrets management strategies on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is whether an organization should centralize its secrets. Though this question is often focused on whether secrets should be centrally stored, there are four aspects…
Fall 2025 SOC 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available with 185 services in scope
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Fall 2025 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available. The reports cover 185 services over the 12-month period from October 1, 2024–September 30, 2025, giving…
Implementing data governance on AWS: Automation, tagging, and lifecycle strategy – Part 1
Generative AI and machine learning workloads create massive amounts of data. Organizations need data governance to manage this growth and stay compliant. While data governance isn’t a new concept, recent studies highlight a concerning gap: a Gartner study of 300…
Implementing data governance on AWS: Automation, tagging, and lifecycle strategy – Part 2
In Part 1, we explored the foundational strategy, including data classification frameworks and tagging approaches. In this post, we examine the technical implementation approach and key architectural patterns for building a governance framework. We explore governance controls across four implementation…
Streamline security response at scale with AWS Security Hub automation
A new version of AWS Security Hub, is now generally available, introducing new ways for organizations to manage and respond to security findings. The enhanced Security Hub helps you improve your organization’s security posture and simplify cloud security operations by…
Fall 2025 PCI DSS compliance package available now
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that two additional AWS services and one additional AWS Region have been added to the scope of our Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification: Newly added services: AWS Security…
AWS named Leader in the 2025 ISG report for Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure Services (EU)
For the third year in a row, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is named as a Leader in the Information Services Group (ISG) Provider LensTM Quadrant report for Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure Services (EU), published on January 8, 2026. ISG is a…