Author: Chad Woolf

To provide guidance about how to leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop applications that meet HIPAA and HITECH compliance requirements, we recently updated the Architecting for HIPAA Security and Compliance on Amazon Web Services whitepaper. The advancements and growth of healthcare technology have been an accelerating force behind the continued adoption of cloud computing, […]

PCI compliance in the cloud is an important topic for many of our customers. Our PCI FAQ page has received more than 45,000 views, and we have issued our PCI compliance package directly to customers in all major regions and industry verticals. To build on our growing demand of PCI enablers, today we’re happy to […]

July 24, 2020: The whitepaper Auditing Security Checklist in the list of additional resources has been replaced by a Cloud Audit Academy course.   The security of personally identifiable information (PII) continues to be an important topic among all sectors, and education is no exception. Covered entities subject to FERPA are turning to cloud computing […]

We are now in our sixth year of regularly publishing comprehensive independent audit reports attesting to our alignment with globally accepted security best practices. We have just completed our thorough and extensive semiannual audit and are happy to announce that Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and our newest region in Europe (Frankfurt) are now in-scope […]

We focus on enabling our customers to scale their security and compliance capabilities on AWS, and we enhance our customers’ ability to meet a wide variety of security and regulatory requirements. With a continued focus on our customers’ regulatory needs in the financial services sector, we created another customer facing workbook, which aligns the new […]

Last year, CESG UK published the Cloud Security Guidance documents for public sector organizations that are considering the use of cloud services for handling information classified as OFFICIAL. The guidance aims to help public sector organizations make informed decisions about cloud services and choose a cloud service that balances business benefits and security risks. In […]

Our US federal customers are finding interesting and exciting ways to use the AWS cloud for their IT infrastructure and data management. Our focus on these customers remains a high priority for AWS Compliance, and to further our efforts in providing customer-focused compliance enablers, we have updated our existing Department of Defense (DoD) whitepaper. This […]

Some of the most common compliance-related requests we receive from our customers are for reference architecture, a template for how to build your infrastructure in the cloud. These requests indicate how some people learn new concepts: reference architecture visualizations can help to clarify subject matter. In order to clarify how you can use AWS functionality […]

AWS continually monitors how the work of international standards bodies affects how you run your regulated workloads in the cloud. As such, we were pleased to see a recent security-related announcement from the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA). ENISA’s announcement addresses one of the most commonly asked questions by AWS customers […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recognizes that when law enforcement agencies place information in the cloud, they require timely and secure access to that information. AWS architecture provides a highly scalable and reliable platform that enables AWS customers to deploy applications and data quickly and securely in support of a wide variety of security and regulatory […]