Category: Compliance

July 24, 2020: The whitepaper Auditing Security Checklist in the list of additional resources has been replaced by a Cloud Audit Academy course.   The security of personally identifiable information (PII) continues to be an important topic among all sectors, and education is no exception. Covered entities subject to FERPA are turning to cloud computing […]

We are now in our sixth year of regularly publishing comprehensive independent audit reports attesting to our alignment with globally accepted security best practices. We have just completed our thorough and extensive semiannual audit and are happy to announce that Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and our newest region in Europe (Frankfurt) are now in-scope […]

We focus on enabling our customers to scale their security and compliance capabilities on AWS, and we enhance our customers’ ability to meet a wide variety of security and regulatory requirements. With a continued focus on our customers’ regulatory needs in the financial services sector, we created another customer facing workbook, which aligns the new […]

Today, Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server DB released support for encryption using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. Using keys under your control, you can now encrypt RDS instances, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server DB instance types, and Amazon Redshift clusters in AWS GovCloud […]

Last year, CESG UK published the Cloud Security Guidance documents for public sector organizations that are considering the use of cloud services for handling information classified as OFFICIAL. The guidance aims to help public sector organizations make informed decisions about cloud services and choose a cloud service that balances business benefits and security risks. In […]

Update: The slides from this webinar are now available. As part of the AWS Webinar Series, AWS will present Security Best Practices: Compliance Beyond the Check Box on Tuesday, April 28. This webinar will start at 10:30 A.M. and end at 11:30 A.M. Pacific Time (UTC-7). Principal Solutions Architect Bill Shinn will help you understand […]

Our US federal customers are finding interesting and exciting ways to use the AWS cloud for their IT infrastructure and data management. Our focus on these customers remains a high priority for AWS Compliance, and to further our efforts in providing customer-focused compliance enablers, we have updated our existing Department of Defense (DoD) whitepaper. This […]

May 16, 2019 update: We’ve removed a reference to the IT-Grundschutz Certification Workbook. AWS now recommends that customers refer to the Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalog (C5) instead. Learn more about C5 here: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/bsi-c5/ AWS has radically improved cloud service provider compliance offerings with the ongoing development and releases of next gen customer-focused compliance enablers […]

Some of the most common compliance-related requests we receive from our customers are for reference architecture, a template for how to build your infrastructure in the cloud. These requests indicate how some people learn new concepts: reference architecture visualizations can help to clarify subject matter. In order to clarify how you can use AWS functionality […]

AWS continually monitors how the work of international standards bodies affects how you run your regulated workloads in the cloud. As such, we were pleased to see a recent security-related announcement from the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA). ENISA’s announcement addresses one of the most commonly asked questions by AWS customers […]