AWS Security Blog

Using temporary credentials is an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practice. Even Dilbert is learning to set up temporary credentials. Today, AWS Secrets Manager made it easier to follow this best practice by launching support for rotating credentials for Amazon DocumentDB and Amazon Redshift automatically. Now, with a few clicks, you can configure […]

In late November, I announced AWS re:Inforce, a standalone conference where we will deep dive into the latest approaches to security, identity, and risk management utilizing AWS services, features, and tools. Now, after months of planning, the time has arrived to open registration! Ticket sales begin on March 12th at 10:00am PDT, and you can […]

Note: This blog provides an alternate solution to Visualizing Amazon GuardDuty Findings, in which the authors describe how to build an Amazon Elasticsearch Service-powered Kibana dashboard to ingest and visualize Amazon GuardDuty findings. Amazon GuardDuty is a managed threat detection service powered by machine learning that can monitor your AWS environment with just a few […]

AWS has completed its 2018 assessment against the Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalog (C5) information security and compliance program. Germany’s national cybersecurity authority—Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI)—established C5 to define a reference standard for German cloud security requirements. With C5 (as well as with IT-Grundschutz), customers in German member states can use the […]

One of the most important things you can do as a customer to ensure the security of your resources is to maintain careful control over who has access to them. This is especially true if any of your AWS users have programmatic access. Programmatic access allows you to invoke actions on your AWS resources either […]

Update on March 13, 2019: The AWS Region in Paris is now certified. At AWS, the security, privacy, and protection of customer data always comes first, which is why I am pleased to share the news that AWS has achieved “Hébergeur de Données de Santé” (HDS) certification. With HDS certification, customers and partners who host […]

Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) is a fully managed service to search, analyze, and visualize data in real-time. The service offers integration with Kibana, an open-source data visualization and exploration tool that lets you perform log and time-series analytics and application monitoring. Many enterprise customers who want to use these capabilities find it challenging to […]

In my previous post, I showed you how you can increase the durability of your applications and prepare for disaster recovery by using AWS Secrets Manager to replicate your secrets across AWS regions. This is just one of many security best practices you can implement in your AWS environment. Another would be removing the need […]

You can now more quickly view and update all your security credentials from one place using the “My Security Credentials” page in the AWS Management Console. When you grant your developers programmatic access or AWS Management Console access, they receive credentials, such as a password or access keys, to access AWS resources. For example, creating […]

I’m proud to announce an updated resource that is designed to provide guidance to help your organization align to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework Version 1.1, which was released in 2018. The updated guide, NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF): Aligning to the NIST CSF in the AWS Cloud, is designed to […]