AWS Security Blog

Category: Public Sector

Enable Single Sign-On to the AWS Management Console via Shibboleth

<Repost from AWS Blog, here in its entirety> One of the most powerful features of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is its ability to issue temporary security credentials and grant controlled access to people in a network without having to define individual identities for each user (i.e., identity federation). This enables customers to extend their existing authentication […]

Securing Access to AWS Using MFA–Part 2

In part I of our series on multi-factor authentication (MFA), we mentioned that the next topic would be securing access to AWS APIs with MFA. This week’s guest blogger Kai Zhao, Product Manager on our AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, will give a brief overview of AWS MFA-protected API access. Introduction MFA-protected API […]

AWS Achieves First FedRAMP(SM) Agency ATOs

I’m very excited to share that AWS is now a FedRAMP-compliant cloud service provider. See the Amazon press release. This is game-changing news for our U.S. government customers and systems integrators and other companies that provide products and services to the U.S. government because: It provides agencies a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and […]