AWS Security Blog
Securing generative AI: Applying relevant security controls
This is part 3 of a series of posts on securing generative AI. We recommend starting with the overview post Securing generative AI: An introduction to the Generative AI Security Scoping Matrix, which introduces the scoping matrix detailed in this post. This post discusses the considerations when implementing security controls to protect a generative AI […]
Protect your Amazon Cognito user pool with AWS WAF
September 8, 2023: It’s important to know that if you activate user sign-up in your user pool, anyone on the internet can sign up for an account and sign in to your apps. Don’t enable self-registration in your user pool unless you want to open your app to allow users to sign up. Many of […]
How to detect suspicious activity in your AWS account by using private decoy resources
As customers mature their security posture on Amazon Web Services (AWS), they are adopting multiple ways to detect suspicious behavior and notify response teams or workflows to take action. One example is using Amazon GuardDuty to monitor AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity and deliver detailed security findings for visibility and remediation. Another tactic […]
Use AWS Secrets Manager to simplify the management of private certificates
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with Amazon Web Services (AWS) services and your internal connected resources. For private certificates, AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority (ACM PCA) can be used to create private CA hierarchies, including root […]
How to use AWS Secrets Manager to securely store and rotate SSH key pairs
July 2, 2025: The approach in this blog post is no longer required or recommended to manage SSH keys for EC2 Instances. We instead recommend using EC2 Instance Connect that uses AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies and principals to control SSH access to your instances, removing the need to share and manage SSH […]




