AWS Security Blog

Category: Foundational (100)

Building a security-first mindset: three key themes from AWS re:Invent 2023

AWS re:Invent drew 52,000 attendees from across the globe to Las Vegas, Nevada, November 27 to December 1, 2023. Now in its 12th year, the conference featured 5 keynotes, 17 innovation talks, and over 2,250 sessions and hands-on labs offering immersive learning and networking opportunities. Amazon CSO Stephen Schmidt With dozens of service and feature […]

AWS named as a Leader in 2023 ISG Provider Lens report for Multi Public Cloud Services – Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure Services (EU)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is named as a Leader in the 2023 ISG Provider Lens Quadrant Report for Multi Public Cloud Services – Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure Services (EU), published on January 8, 2024. This first-ever Information Services Group (ISG) report evaluates providers of sovereign cloud infrastructure services in the multi public cloud environment and examines […]

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AWS Certificate Manager will discontinue WHOIS lookup for email-validated certificates

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is a managed service that you can use to provision, manage, and deploy public and private TLS certificates for use with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and your internal connected resources. Today, we’re announcing that ACM will be discontinuing the use of WHOIS lookup for validating domain ownership when you request email-validated […]

AWS Transfer Family

How Transfer Family can help you build a secure, compliant managed file transfer solution

Building and maintaining a secure, compliant managed file transfer (MFT) solution to securely send and receive files inside and outside of your organization can be challenging. Working with a competent, vigilant, and diligent MFT vendor to help you protect the security of your file transfers can help you address this challenge. In this blog post, […]

AWS successfully renews GSMA security certification for US East (Ohio) and Europe (Paris) Regions

Amazon Web Services is pleased to announce that the AWS US East (Ohio) and Europe (Paris) Regions have been recertified through October 2024 by the GSM Association (GSMA) under its Security Accreditation Scheme for Subscription Management (SAS-SM) with scope Data Centre Operations and Management (DCOM). The US East (Ohio) Region first obtained GSMA certification in […]

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Fall 2023 SOC reports now available in Spanish

Spanish version » We continue to listen to our customers, regulators, and stakeholders to understand their needs regarding audit, assurance, certification, and attestation programs at Amazon Web Services (AWS). We’re pleased to announce that the Fall 2023 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 reports are now available in Spanish. These […]

AWS Security Profile: Arynn Crow, Sr. Manager for AWS User AuthN

AWS Security Profile series, I interview some of the humans who work in AWS Security and help keep our customers safe and secure. In this profile, I interviewed Arynn Crow, senior manager for AWS User AuthN in AWS Identity. How long have you been at AWS, and what do you do in your current role? […]

New report released – Centralized Trust for Decentralized Uses: Revisiting Private Certificate Authorities

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the availability of a new sponsored report from S&P Global Market Intelligence 451 Research, Centralized Trust for Decentralized Uses: Revisiting Private Certificate Authorities. We heard from customers actively seeking centralized management solutions for multi-cloud environments and worked with 451 Research, a technology research solution that provides a […]

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Strengthening customer third-party due diligence with renewed AWS CyberGRX assessment

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the successful renewal of the AWS CyberGRX cyber risk assessment report. This third-party validated report helps customers perform effective cloud supplier due diligence on AWS and enhances customers’ third-party risk management process. With the increase in adoption of cloud products and services across multiple sectors and industries, AWS has become a critical […]

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2023 ISO and CSA STAR certificates now available with ISO 27001 transition from 2013 to 2022 version

Amazon Web Services (AWS) successfully completed a surveillance audit for ISO 9001:2015, 27001:2022, 27017:2015, 27018:2019, 27701:2019, 20000-1:2018, and 22301:2019, and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) STAR Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0. Ernst and Young Certify Point auditors conducted the audit and reissued the certificates on Nov 22, 2023. The objective of the audit was to assess […]