AWS Database Blog
Author: Syed Jaffry
Syed Jaffry is a Sr. Solutions Architect with AWS. He works with a range of companies from mid-sized organizations to large enterprises, financial services to ISVs, in helping them build and operate secure, resilient, scalable, and high performance applications in the cloud.
Applying best practices for securing sensitive data in Amazon DynamoDB
October 2023: This post was reviewed and updated to include the integration of Amazon DynamoDB Dataplane operations in AWS CloudTrail. The first post of the series, Best practices for securing sensitive data in AWS data stores, described some generic security concepts and corresponding AWS security controls that you can apply to AWS data stores. Using […]
Applying best practices for securing sensitive data in Amazon RDS
In the first post of the series, I described some generic security concepts and corresponding AWS security controls that can be applied to data stores on AWS. Using these, you can create a stronger security posture around your data. In this second post, I demonstrate how these concepts can be implemented to Amazon RDS databases. […]
Best practices for securing sensitive data in AWS data stores
This blog post focuses on general data security patterns and corresponding AWS security controls that protect your data. Although I mention Amazon RDS and DynamoDB in this post, I plan to cover the implementation-specific details related to Amazon RDS and DynamoDB in two subsequent posts.