Category: Foundational (100)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to expand the scope of our PCI compliance program to support our customers’ most important workloads. We are pleased to announce that six services have been added to the scope of our Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance program. These services were validated by Coalfire, our independent […]

Today, as part of its Secure Cloud Adoption series, AWS released new strategic outlook recommendations to support decision makers in any sector considering or planning for secure cloud adoption. “Accreditation Models for Secure Cloud Adoption” provides best practices with respect to cloud accreditation to help organizations capitalize on the security benefits of commercial cloud computing, […]

We are pleased to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has achieved its first PCI 3-D Secure (3DS) certification. Financial institutions and payment providers are implementing EMV 3-D Secure services to support application-based authentication, integration with digital wallets, and browser-based e-commerce transactions. Although AWS doesn’t perform 3DS functions directly, the AWS PCI 3DS attestation of […]

AWS Shield is a managed threat protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS against exploitation of application vulnerabilities, bad bots, and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The AWS Shield Threat Landscape Report (TLR) provides you with a summary of threats detected by AWS Shield. This report is curated by the AWS Threat Research […]

AWS Artifact service introduces a new user interface (UI) that provides a more intuitive experience in searching and saving AWS compliance reports, and accepting agreements. The new UI includes AWS Artifact home page equipped with information and videos on how to use the AWS Artifact service for your compliance needs. Additionally, the Reports and Agreements […]

We continue to be customer focused in addressing privacy requirements, enabling you to be confident in how your content is protected while using Amazon Web Services. Our latest SOC2 Type 1 Privacy report is now available to demonstrate our privacy compliance commitments to you. Our spring 2020 SOC 2 Type I Privacy report provides you […]

At AWS, our customers’ security is of the highest importance and we continue to provide transparency into our security posture. We’re proud to deliver the System and Organizational Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3 reports to our AWS customers. The SOC program continues to enable our global customer base to maintain confidence in our secured […]

September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. AWS achieved Spain’s Esquema Nacional de Seguridad (ENS) High certification across 105 services in all AWS Regions. To successfully achieve the ENS High certification, BDO España conducted an independent audit and attested that AWS meets confidentiality, integrity, and availability standards. […]

November 2, 2020: This post has been updated to reflect the change in date for the default password policy from October 28 to November 18. October 20, 2020: This post has been updated to reflect the change in date for the default password policy from October 2 to October 21 to October 28. July 27, […]

I’m excited to share that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has authorized 16 additional AWS services at Impact Level 4 and one service at Impact Level 5 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With these additional 16 services, AWS now offers a total of 72 services and features authorized to process data at Impact […]