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AWS re:Invent 2024, which takes place December 2–6 in Las Vegas, will be packed with invaluable sessions for security professionals, cloud architects, and compliance leaders who are eager to learn about the latest security innovations. This year’s event puts best practices for zero trust, generative AI–driven security, identity and access management (IAM), DevSecOps, network and […]

April 3, 2025: We’ve updated this post to reflect the new 2025 OWASP top 10 for LLM entries. This is part 1 of a two-part blog series. See part 2. Data security and data authorization, as distinct from user authorization, is a critical component of business workload architectures. Its importance has grown with the evolution […]

Education is critical to effective security. As organizations migrate, modernize, and build with Amazon Web Services (AWS), engineering and development teams need specific skills and knowledge to embed security into workloads. Lack of support for these skills can increase the likelihood of security incidents. AWS has partnered with SANS Institute to create SEC480: AWS Secure Builder—a […]

January 28, 2025: The following blog post highlights how to add threat detection to your custom authentication flows by using Amazon Cognito. With the introduction of new Cognito feature tiers, threat protection features are now included as default features for Plus tier customers. Customers using advanced security features (ASF) in Amazon Cognito should consider switching […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that three new AWS services have been added to the scope of our Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Payment Card Industry Three Domain Secure (PCI 3DS) certifications: Amazon DataZone Amazon DevOps Guru Amazon Managed Grafana You can see the full list of services […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently released AWS IAM Identity Center trusted identity propagation to create identity-enhanced IAM role sessions when requesting access to AWS services as well as to trusted token issuers. These two features can help customers build custom applications on top of AWS, which requires fine-grained access to data analytics-focused AWS services such […]

If you are new to AWS WAF and are interested in learning how to mitigate bot traffic by implementing Challenge actions in your AWS WAF custom rules, here is a basic, cost-effective way of using this action to help you reduce the impact of bot traffic in your applications. We also cover the basics of […]

AWS re:Invent 2024, a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the global cloud computing community, will take place December 2–6, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada, across multiple venues. At re:Invent, you can join cloud enthusiasts from around the world to hear the latest cloud industry innovations, meet with AWS experts, and build […]

Understanding risk and identifying the root cause of an issue in a timely manner is critical to businesses. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers multiple security services that you can use together to perform more timely investigations and improve the mean time to remediate issues. In this blog post, you will learn how to integrate Amazon […]

October 28, 2024: We updated the text and figure for security objective 1 to show Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints—powered by AWS PrivateLink—enable customers to establish private connectivity to supported AWS services, enterprise services, and third-party services by using private IP addresses. There are three types of […]