Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

In this post, we explain what IL5 requires, how AWS GovCloud (US) and SAP NS2 meet those requirements together, and how defense organizations can get started.

In this blog, learn more about the availability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, giving government and regulated industries a fully managed solution to build, deploy, and operate AI agents at production scale, without needing to manage the underlying infrastructure. This launch is part of Amazon’s broader commitment to invest more than $50 billion in cloud and AI infrastructure, giving government customers access to the same cutting-edge AI capabilities available in commercial Regions.

A distributed approach, one that brings generative AI to the data rather than the reverse, is achievable today using Amazon Web Services (AWS) solutions such as Amazon Bedrock for orchestration, Amazon Neptune for data lineage, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for source-point security enforcement.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is collaborating with Expando, a Swedish defense technology company, to help European public sector organizations build exactly that kind of layered, resilient data infrastructure. Together, AWS and Expando offer a connected approach to data protection that spans rugged edge deployments, disconnected field operations, customer-owned secure locations, and the full power of the AWS Cloud.

For the more than 2,800 administrators across approximately 1,200 participating institutions in the US, that means access to near daily provided to them through Amazon Quick Sight on Amazon Web Services (AWS) by the eduroam team at Internet2. However, this wasn’t always the case. This post walks through how the eduroam team modernized their data reporting pipeline, the architecture behind it, and the impact it’s had on institutional engagement.

Every major agent framework has a security model for this. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google each ship agent solutions with authentication and credential management built in. Amazon Bedrock Agents, for example, enforces AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)-based authorization on which AWS Lambda functions, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets, and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases an agent might invoke.

As organisations modernise to meet the evolving expectations of the Australian Government, delivering secure, cloud-based services has become a commercial and operational necessity. This transformation brings a critical challenge: maintaining a hardened security posture while aligning to the Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessment requirements and priorities.

Catching a compliance violation in production is expensive. Catching it in a pull request is nearly free. In this post, we demonstrate how to build a multi-tool infrastructure as code (IaC) validation pipeline that checks AWS CloudFormation templates and Terraform configurations against Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) 20x Key Security Indicators (KSIs) before deployment. Combined with the preventive controls from Preventive controls for FedRAMP 20x: Using SCPs and guardrails to enforce KSIs and the methods to be described in future blog posts, this creates a full-lifecycle compliance architecture.

This post is for two audiences. The first is agencies already running MARS-E-compliant workloads on AWS that are looking to map their existing posture onto the new framework. The second is agencies planning a migration from on-premises infrastructure where ARC-AMPE will be in scope from the first day.

Learn how researchers in the University of São Paulo Research Center in Greenhouse Gas Innovation (RCGI) greenhouse gas (GHG) program saw an opportunity to develop a system that enabled close monitoring of the forest using data systems and data spaces in the cloud. They created Digital Amazon, a distributed data space network with open access that integrates CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions data collected by the university with other data sources to support critical and timely climate action and intervention in the Amazon Forest.