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January 7, 2020: Based on customer feedback, we revised the wording of a step in a procedure to improve clarity. Amazon Cognito user pools enables you to add user sign-in and sign-up to your mobile and web applications using a secure and scalable user directory. With Amazon Cognito user pools, your end users can sign […]

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) allows customers to provide granular access control to resources in AWS. One approach to granting access to resources is to use attribute-based access control (ABAC) to centrally govern and manage access to your AWS resources across accounts. Using ABAC enables you to simplify your authentication strategy by enabling you […]

You can now reference Organizational Units (OUs), which are groups of AWS accounts in AWS Organizations, in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, making it easier to define access for your IAM principals (users and roles) to the AWS resources in your organization. AWS Organizations lets you organize your accounts into OUs to align […]

November 25, 2019: We’ve corrected a documentation link. As you build on AWS, you create AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles to enable teams and applications to use AWS services. As those teams and applications evolve, you might only rely on a sub-set of your original roles to meet your needs. This can leave […]

In this post, we’ll show you how to use the AWS Encryption SDK (“ESDK”) for JavaScript to handle an in-browser encryption workload for a hypothetical application. First, we’ll review some of the security and privacy properties of encryption, including the names AWS uses for the different components of a typical application. Then, we’ll discuss some […]

August 6, 2019: We’ve made an update to clarify use cases for VPC peering. If your organization is using software as a service (SaaS), your data is likely stored and protected by the SaaS provider. However, depending on the type of data that your organization stores and the compliance requirements that it must meet, you […]

AWS has published a whitepaper, Preparing for the California Consumer Protection Act, to provide guidance on designing and updating your cloud architecture to follow the requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which goes into effect on January 1, 2020. The whitepaper is intended for engineers and solution builders, but it also serves as […]

You can use AWS Organizations to centrally govern and manage multiple accounts as you scale your AWS workloads. With AWS Organizations, central security administrators can use service control policies (SCPs) to establish permission guardrails that all IAM users and roles in the organization’s accounts adhere to. When teams and projects are just getting started, administrators […]

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now offers the option for managing online root CAs and a full online PKI hierarchy. You can now host and manage your organization’s entire private certificate infrastructure in AWS. Supporting a full hierarchy expands AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority capabilities. CA administrators can use ACM […]

If you’re an AWS Directory Service administrator, you can reset your directory users’ passwords from the AWS console or the CLI when their passwords expire. However, you can improve your efficiency by reducing the number of requests for password resets. You can also help improve the security of your organization by having your users proactively […]