Category: Thought Leadership

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is migrating to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Like other security and compliance features in AWS, we will deliver PQC as part of our shared responsibility model. This means that some PQC features will be transparently enabled for all customers while others will be options that customers can choose to implement to help meet their […]

The Australian financial services regulator, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), has provided its most substantial guidance on generative AI to date in Member Therese McCarthy Hockey’s remarks to the AFIA Risk Summit 2024. The guidance gives a green light for banks, insurance companies, and superannuation funds to accelerate their adoption of this transformative technology, […]

English | German | French Around the world, organizations are evaluating and embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to drive innovation and efficiency. From accelerating research and enhancing customer experiences to optimizing business processes, improving patient outcomes, and enriching public services, the transformative potential of AI is being realized across sectors. Although using […]

Welcome to the second post in our series on Security Guardians, a mechanism to distribute security ownership at Amazon Web Services (AWS) that trains, develops, and empowers builder teams to make security decisions about the software that they create. In the previous post, you learned the importance of building a culture of security ownership to […]

During a recent visit to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), I mentioned a trend that piqued their interest: Over the last 10 years of applying automated reasoning at Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’ve found that formally verified code is often more performant than the unverified code it replaces. The reason is that the […]

Secure generative AI insights await at AWS re:Invent 2024; gain practical strategies to harness AI’s power while safeguarding data and compliance from leading experts through immersive sessions tailored for security professionals and AI/ML builders.

AWS is deeply committed to earning and maintaining the trust of customers who rely on us to run their workloads. Security has always been our top priority, which includes designing our own services with security in mind at the outset, and taking proactive measures to mitigate potential threats so that customers can focus on their […]

Developing strategies to navigate the evolving digital sovereignty landscape is a top priority for organizations operating across industries and in the public sector. With data privacy, security, and compliance requirements becoming increasingly complex, organizations are seeking cloud solutions that provide sovereign controls and flexibility. Recently, Max Peterson, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Vice President of Sovereign […]

On November 1, 2023, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued its Second Amendment (the Amendment) to its Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies adopted in 2017, published within Section 500 of 23 NYCRR 500 (the Cybersecurity Requirements; the Cybersecurity Requirements as amended by the Amendment, the Amended Cybersecurity Requirements). In the introduction […]

Threat intelligence that can fend off security threats before they happen requires not just smarts, but the speed and worldwide scale that only AWS can offer. Organizations around the world trust Amazon Web Services (AWS) with their most sensitive data. One of the ways we help secure data on AWS is with an industry-leading threat […]