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The guest data of AWS customers running on the AWS Nitro System and Nitro Hypervisor is not at risk from a new attack dubbed “L1TF Reloaded.” No additional action is required by AWS customers; however, AWS continues to recommend that customers isolate their workloads using instance, enclave, or function boundaries as described in AWS public […]

As introduced in Part 1 of this series, implementing secure file sharing solutions in AWS requires a comprehensive understanding of your organization’s needs and constraints. Before selecting a specific solution, organizations must evaluate five fundamental areas: access patterns and scale, technical requirements, security and compliance, operational requirements, and business constraints. These areas cover everything from […]

Securely share sensitive data with time-limited, nonce-enhanced presigned URLs that prevent replay attacks, minimizing exposure risks through granular access controls and rigorous monitoring.

July 30, 2025: This post has been republished to migrate the Amazon EC2 Oracle Transparent Data Encryption database encryption keystore to AWS CloudHSM using AWS CloudHSM Client SDK 5. Encrypting databases is crucial for protecting sensitive data, helping you to be aligned with security regulations and safeguarding against data loss. Oracle Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) […]

Organizations are facing an increasing number of security threats, especially in the form of compromised user accounts. Manually monitoring and acting on suspicious activities is not only time-consuming but also prone to human error. The lack of automated responses to security incidents can lead to disastrous consequences, such as data breaches and financial loss. In […]

Amazon Cognito is a managed customer identity and access management (CIAM) service that enables seamless user sign-up and sign-in for web and mobile applications. Through user pools, Amazon Cognito provides a user directory with strong authentication features, including passkeys, federation to external identity providers (IdPs), and OAuth 2.0 flows for secure machine-to-machine (M2M) authorization. Amazon […]

June 23, 2025: We updated @verifiedpermissions/authorization-clients to @verifiedpermissions/authorization-clients-js to correctly reflect the name of the package on npm. Today, Amazon Verified Permissions announced the release of @verifiedpermissions/authorization-clients-js, an open source package that developers can use to implement external fine-grained authorization for Express.js web application APIs in minutes when using Verified Permissions. Express is a minimal […]

Today, customers use AWS Network Firewall to safeguard their workloads against common security threats. However, they often have to rely on third-party threat feeds and scanners that have limited visibility in AWS workloads to protect against active threats. A self-managed approach to cloud security through traditional threat intelligence feeds and custom rules can result in […]

June 19, 2025: We made a correction to the windows of access that a user could have when using this solution. Controlling access to your privileged and sensitive resources is critical for all AWS customers. Preventing direct human interaction with services and systems through automation is the primary means of accomplishing this. For those infrequent […]

AWS Secrets Manager is a service that you can use to manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, application credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycles. You can use Secrets Manager to replace hard-coded credentials in application source code with a runtime call to the Secrets Manager service to retrieve credentials dynamically when you […]