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.…
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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…