AWS Security Blog
Author: Achraf Moussadek-Kabdani
Establishing a data perimeter on AWS: Analyze your account activity to evaluate impact and refine controls
April 22, 2025: This post was updated to fix a typo in the Example 2 section. A data perimeter on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a set of preventive controls you can use to help establish a boundary around your data in AWS Organizations. This boundary helps ensure that your data can be accessed only […]
IAM Access Analyzer simplifies inspection of unused access in your organization
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer offers tools that help you set, verify, and refine permissions. You can use IAM Access Analyzer external access findings to continuously monitor your AWS Organizations organization and Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts for public and cross-account access to your resources, and verify that only intended external access […]