AWS Database Blog
Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance
Securing data in Amazon RDS using AWS KMS encryption
This post has been reviewed and/or updated on June 2022. Data privacy is essential for organizations in all industries. Encryption services provide one standard method of protecting data from unauthorized access. However, encryption changes data in a way that makes it unreadable without the correct decryption key. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) can encrypt […]
Understanding Amazon DynamoDB encryption by using AWS Key Management Service and analysis of API calls with Amazon Athena
As applications evolve to be more scalable for the web, customers are adopting flexible data structures and database engines for their use cases. Using NoSQL data stores has become increasing popular because of NoSQL’s flexible data model for building modern applications. Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service that can provide consistent […]
Monitoring your security with GuardDuty in real time with Amazon Elasticsearch Service
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. When you use Amazon GuardDuty to help you protect your AWS accounts and workloads, you can enhance your ability to quickly search and visualize a large amount of data. In an enterprise, you might be analysing activity from thousands of […]
How to rapidly develop applications on Amazon Cloud Directory with Managed Schema
Now, Amazon Cloud Directory makes it easier than ever for you to rapidly develop applications by using Managed Schema. You can create a directory and start creating and retrieving objects from it at a faster pace by using the managed schema. With this launch, we are making available one Cloud Directory Managed Schema, called QuickStartSchema. […]
How to use IAM multifactor authentication with Amazon RDS
A common request that we get from customers is how to protect their resources from an accidental or malicious deletion, such as instances, snapshots, clusters, and so on. Doing this is especially important when you are using a common AWS account for multiple users or teams. Although you want the flexibility to innovate within the […]
Client-Side Encryption and Decryption of Microsoft SQL Server Backups for Use with Amazon RDS
This blog post walks you through how to securely encrypt a Microsoft SQL Server backup file and restore the encrypted backup to an Amazon RDS for SQL Server instance. You perform this process using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). This post details the encryption and steps required […]