Category: Announcements

The year has been a profoundly different one for us all, and like many of you, I’ve been adjusting, both professionally and personally, to this “new normal.” Here at AWS we’ve seen an increase in customers looking for secure solutions to maintain productivity in an increased work-from-home world. We’ve also seen an uptick in requests […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has authorized 10 additional AWS services in the AWS Secret Region for production workloads at the Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level (IL) 6 under the DoD’s Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (DoD CC SRG). With this authorization at DoD IL 6, DoD Mission Owners can process classified and […]

In July 2020, we announced that 92 Amazon Web Services (AWS) services had successfully assessed compliant with the Australian government’s Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) for operating workloads at the PROTECTED level. This enables organizations to use AWS to build a wide range of applications and services for the benefit of all residents of […]

The AWS Security team has made it easier for you to find information and guidance on best practices for your cloud architecture. We’re pleased to share the Best Practices for Security, Identity, & Compliance webpage of the new AWS Architecture Center. Here you’ll find top recommendations for security design principles, workshops, and educational materials, and […]

The Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange (TISAX) provides automotive industry organizations the assurance needed to build secure applications and services on the cloud. In late June, AWS achieved the assessment objectives required for data with a very high need for protection according to TISAX criteria. We’re happy to announce this broadened scope of our TISAX […]

A new whitepaper is available that summarizes the results of tests by Foregenix comparing Amazon GuardDuty with network intrusion detection systems (IDS) on threat detection of network layer attacks. GuardDuty is a cloud-centric IDS service that uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) data sources to detect a broad range of threat behaviors. Security engineers need to […]

I’m excited to share that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has authorized 19 additional AWS services at Impact Level (IL) 5 and four services at IL 4 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With these additional 19 services, a total of 80 AWS services and features at IL4 and IL 5 are authorized and […]

We are pleased to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has achieved FedRAMP JAB authorization on an additional nine AWS services. These services provide capabilities that enable your organization to: Assemble and deploy serverless architectures in powerful new ways using AWS Serverless Application Repository Simplify application delivery and complete workload migration to the cloud using […]

We’re happy to share an update on the service documentation initiative that we first told you about on the AWS Security Blog in June, 2019. We’re excited to announce that over 150 services now have dedicated security chapters available in the AWS security documentation. In case you aren’t familiar with the security chapters, they were […]

We’re sharing an update to the Logical Separation on AWS: Moving Beyond Physical Isolation in the Era of Cloud Computing whitepaper to help customers benefit from the security and innovation benefits of logical separation in the cloud. This paper discusses using a multi-pronged approach—leveraging identity management, network security, serverless and containers services, host and instance […]