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March 18, 2025: This post was updated to include additional guidance around monitoring and detection. January 17, 2025: We updated this post to highlight the importance of using short-term credentials to mitigate the risk of unauthorized techniques such as the one detailed in this blog. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), the security of our customers’ […]

November 3, 2025: The M2M app client pricing dimension for Amazon Cognito user pools was removed. View the AWS What’s New post for more information. Also, check out the Amazon Cognito OAuth2 Token Proxy with Caching solution for additional optimization. September 4, 2025:The Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights query in this blog has been updated to […]

As organizations continue their cloud journeys, effective data security in the cloud is a top priority. Whether it’s protecting customer information, intellectual property, or compliance-mandated data, encryption serves as a fundamental security control. This is where AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) steps in, offering a robust foundation for encryption key management on AWS. One […]

April 23, 2026: We updated this post to include links to more information. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is migrating to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Like other security and compliance features in AWS, we will deliver PQC as part of our shared responsibility model. This means that some PQC features will be transparently enabled for all customers while others […]

Retrieval-Augmented Generative (RAG) applications enhance the responses retrieved from large language models (LLMs) by integrating external data such as downloaded files, web scrapings, and user-contributed data pools. This integration improves the models’ performance by adding relevant context to the prompt. While RAG applications are a powerful way to dynamically add additional context to an LLM’s prompt […]

November 26, 2025: All changes to the CloudTrail events of IAM Identity Center described in this blog post are now deployed. December 30, 2024: In response to customer feedback, we updated the effective date for the announced changes from January 13, 2025, to July 14, 2025, and clarified that these changes apply exclusively to IAM […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers use various AWS services to migrate, build, and innovate in the AWS Cloud. To align with compliance requirements, customers need to monitor, evaluate, and detect changes made to AWS resources. AWS Config continuously audits, assesses, and evaluates the configurations of your AWS resources. AWS Config rules continuously evaluate your AWS […]

Vulnerability management is a vital part of network, application, and infrastructure security, and its goal is to protect an organization from inadvertent access and exposure of sensitive data and infrastructure. As part of vulnerability management, organizations typically perform a risk assessment to determine which vulnerabilities pose the greatest risk, evaluate their impact on business goals […]

April 3, 2025: We’ve updated this post to reflect the new 2025 OWASP top 10 for LLM entries. This is part 1 of a two-part blog series. See part 2. Data security and data authorization, as distinct from user authorization, is a critical component of business workload architectures. Its importance has grown with the evolution […]

Security is a shared responsibility between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and you, the customer. As a customer, the services you choose, how you connect them, and how you run your solutions can impact your security posture. To help customers fulfill their responsibilities and find the right balance for their business, under the shared responsibility model, […]