AWS Security Blog
Category: Database
How to Create an AWS IAM Policy to Grant AWS Lambda Access to an Amazon DynamoDB Table
When managing your AWS resources, you often need to grant one AWS service access to another to accomplish tasks. For example, you could use an AWS Lambda function to resize, watermark, and postprocess images, for which you would need to store the associated metadata in Amazon DynamoDB. You also could use Lambda, Amazon S3, and […]
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Is Now a HIPAA Eligible Service and You Can Use It to Power Real-Time Healthcare Applications
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is now a HIPAA Eligible Service and has been added to the AWS Business Associate Addendum (BAA). This means you can use ElastiCache for Redis to help you power healthcare applications as well as process, maintain, and store protected health information (PHI). ElastiCache for Redis is a Redis-compatible, fully-managed, in-memory data […]
Now You Can Use Amazon ElastiCache for Redis with In-Transit and At-Rest Encryption to Help Protect Sensitive Information
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports encryption for secure internode communications to help keep personally identifiable information (PII) safe. Both encryption in transit and at rest are supported. The new encryption in-transit feature enables you to encrypt all communications between clients and Redis servers as well as between Redis servers (primary and read replica nodes). […]
Frequently Asked Questions About HIPAA Compliance in the AWS Cloud: Part Two
July 19, 2021: We’ve updated this post to clarify PHI encryption requirements for Amazon CloudWatch Logs. In a previous blog post, Frequently Asked Questions About HIPAA Compliance in the AWS Cloud, I looked at some of the broad questions you have asked us about running protected health information (PHI) in the AWS cloud. In this […]
Three Data-at-Rest Encryption Announcements
We’re excited to make three announcements around encryption of data at rest in AWS: We’ve published a new whitepaper: Securing Data at Rest with Encryption, which describes the various options for encrypting data at rest in AWS. It describes these options in terms of where encryption keys are stored and how access to those keys […]
A Primer on RDS Resource-Level Permissions
Previously, we blogged about how to use resource-level permissions for Amazon EC2 to control access to specific EC2 instances. Resource-level permissions can now also be applied to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). This week’s guest blogger, Chris Checkwitch, Software Development Manager on the RDS team, will explain how to tackle the commonly requested use case of controlling access to […]