Category: Foundational (100)

September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. December 10, 2019: This post was originally published July 2019. Since then, the number of services with a dedicated security chapter has grown from 40 to over 70. We’ve updated our post accordingly. We’re excited to announce the launch of […]

September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The Security Blog set new records for page views in 2019, but we’re always looking for ways to improve. Please tell us what you want to read about in the Comments section below. We read all of your feedback and […]

Today, AWS released an updated resource — AWS Policy Perspectives-Data Residency — to provide an additional option for you if you need to store and process your data on premises. This white paper update discusses AWS Outposts, which offers a hybrid solution for customers that might find that certain workloads are better suited for on-premises […]

Cloud security is the top priority for AWS and for our customers around the world. It’s important that professionals have a way to keep up with this dynamically evolving area of cloud computing. Often, customers seek AWS guidance on cloud-specific security, governance, and compliance best practices, including skills upgrade plans. To address this need, AWS […]

September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. I’m pleased to announce that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has extended the Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) of AWS GovCloud (US) Regions for Department of Defense (DoD) workloads at DoD Impact Levels (IL) 4 and 5 under the […]

February 10, 2021: We provided updated links to the AWS re:Invent 2019 breakout sessions. You can also view these sessions on the AWS Events channel on YouTube. AWS re:Invent 2019 is just over a week away! We have many Security, Identity, and Compliance sessions, and this is a post about AWS Cryptography-related breakout sessions, workshops, […]

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent 2019, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. How long have you been at AWS, and what do you do as the VP […]

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent 2019, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. What do you do in your current role at AWS? I’m an identity nerd! I […]

We understand that the protection of personal data that is uploaded to AWS is critical for many of our customers, and the SOC2 Type 1 Privacy report provides the information you need to understand how your content is protected at AWS. The Fall 2019 SOC 2 Type I Privacy report provides you with a third-party […]

AWS successfully completed the re-certification audits with no findings. Ernst and Young Certify Point auditors issued the new certificates on November 6, 2019, marking the start of the new three-year cycle. We increased the number of ISO services in scope to 134 services in total that have been validated against ISO 9001, 27001, 27017, and […]