AWS Security Blog

Category: Foundational (100)

Spring 2019 SOC 2 Type 1 Privacy report now available

At AWS, our customers’ security and privacy is of the highest importance and we continue to provide transparency into our security and privacy posture. Following our first SOC 2 Type 1 Privacy report released in December 2018, AWS is proud to announce the release of the Spring 2019 SOC 2 Type 1 Privacy report. The […]

Spring 2019 SOC reports now available with 104 services in scope

September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. We’re celebrating the addition of 31 new services in scope with our latest SOC report, pushing AWS past the century mark for the first time – with 104 total services in scope, to be exact! These services are now available […]

Writing IAM Policies: How to Grant Access to an Amazon S3 Bucket

February 20, 2025: This post was republished to reflect the updated least privilege permissions necessary for read-write access to Amazon S3. In this post, we’ll address a common question about how to write an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy to grant read-write access to an Amazon S3 bucket. Doing so helps you control who can access […]