AWS Security Blog
Author: Steve Schmidt
Customer update: AWS and the EU-US Privacy Shield
Recently, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a ruling regarding the EU-US Privacy Shield and Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), also known as model clauses. The CJEU ruled that the EU-US Privacy Shield is no longer valid for the transfer of personal data from the European Union (EU) to the United States […]
Setting the Record Straight on Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Erroneous Article
Today, Bloomberg BusinessWeek published a story claiming that AWS was aware of modified hardware or malicious chips in SuperMicro motherboards in Elemental Media’s hardware at the time Amazon acquired Elemental in 2015, and that Amazon was aware of modified hardware or chips in AWS’s China Region. As we shared with Bloomberg BusinessWeek multiple times over […]
AWS and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Just over a year ago, the European Commission approved and adopted the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR is the biggest change in data protection laws in Europe since the 1995 introduction of the European Union (EU) Data Protection Directive, also known as Directive 95/46/EC. The GDPR aims to strengthen the security and […]
AWS Announces CISPE Membership and Compliance with First-Ever Code of Conduct for Data Protection in the Cloud
September 7, 2023: We updated the CISPE Code of Conduct link. Please refer to this page for the updated info: CISPE Code of Conduct I have two exciting announcements today, both showing AWS’s continued commitment to ensuring that customers can comply with EU Data Protection requirements when using our services. AWS and CISPE First, I’m […]
Introducing s2n-tls, a New Open Source TLS Implementation
February 22, 2022: s2n has been renamed to s2n-tls. See details. At Amazon Web Services, strong encryption is one of our standard features, and an integral aspect of that is the TLS (previously called SSL) encryption protocol. TLS is used with every AWS API and is also available directly to customers of many AWS services […]
Privacy and Data Security
Amazon knows customers care deeply about privacy and data security, and we optimize our work to get these issues right for customers. With this post I’d like to provide a number of observations on our policies and positions: Amazon does not disclose customer information unless we’re required to do so to comply with a legally […]
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This blog will feature information for customers interested in AWS security and compliance. You’ll see content from many AWS team members covering a range of topics, including: Security best practices for AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, AWS IAM, and others How-to guides Compliance milestones Customer and partner stories And more! To get future […]