Category: Announcements

We continue to expand the scope of our assurance programs at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and are pleased to announce the successful completion of our first ever Cloud High (PBHH) security assessment with 172 assessed services and features. Completion of this assessment, effective September 18, 2026, makes AWS the first cloud service provider (CSP) in […]

Amazon Threat Intelligence identified a PHP2Shell exploitation attempt dating to Oct. 17, 2026, in MadPot telemetry, four days before public disclosure of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. The exploit attempt originated from an IP address associated with a commercial anonymization network. While the vulnerability was under embargo, the targeting of a honeypot from an anonymized IP address […]

As AI models become more capable, they uncover more security vulnerabilities and identify increasingly sophisticated paths to exploit them, raising the bar for how quickly defenders must respond. Security teams now face more potential vulnerabilities than their existing processes were designed to handle — each requiring investigation, reproduction, and a repair that must be tested […]

On Saturday, October 24, 2026, we will conduct an exercise demonstrating that the AWS European Sovereign Cloud can operate without depending on any infrastructure outside of the European Union (EU). For several hours, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud will operate without a connection to the AWS Global Network backbone. The backbone is the private network […]

Read all about the latest AWS security features, compliance updates, and hands-on resources in our monthly digest posts. You’ll find expert blog posts, new service capabilities, code samples, and workshops. AWS Security Blog posts August brought 20 AWS Security Blog posts organized across seven categories. Identity and access management led the month with five posts […]

The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has this month issued a clear call to action through its Multi-factor authentication: Switch it on campaign, urging businesses, organisations, and individuals to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) across their online accounts. At AWS, we strongly support this message. As threat actors continue to target credentials through phishing, credential stuffing, and […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the publication of the AWS Security Reference Architecture (AWS SRA) Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) Deep Dive. This new guide extends the core AWS SRA to provide prescriptive, architecture-level guidance for organizations that store, process, or transmit cardholder data on AWS. Organizations subject to […]

We’re pleased to confirm the successful completion of our annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outsourced Service Provider’s Audit Report (OSPAR) assessment on July 29, 2026, in line with the OSPAR version 2.0 framework. The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) established the Guidelines on Control Objectives and Procedures for Outsourced Service Providers (ABS Guidelines) to […]

After talking with enterprise security leaders over the past year, one thing has become clear: the rise of autonomous AI agents is the most significant shift in security posture since the move to cloud. Organizations across every industry are adopting AI agents that authenticate on behalf of users, execute multistep workflows, and make decisions across […]

When customers keep pointing you to a solution that overlaps with parts of your own offering, you have a choice to make. This post is about the choice we made with Upwind, and why we’d make it again. AWS Security Hub Extended exists because customers told us what was working for them in enterprise security […]