AWS Security Blog

Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

Introducing the “Preparing for the California Consumer Privacy Act” whitepaper

AWS has published a whitepaper, Preparing for the California Consumer Protection Act, to provide guidance on designing and updating your cloud architecture to follow the requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which goes into effect on January 1, 2020. The whitepaper is intended for engineers and solution builders, but it also serves as […]

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Spring 2019 PCI DSS report now available, 12 services added in scope

At AWS Security, continuously raising the cloud security bar for our customers is central to all that we do. Part of that work is focused on our formal compliance certifications, which enable our customers to use the AWS cloud for highly sensitive and/or regulated workloads. We see our customers constantly developing creative and innovative solutions—and […]

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AWS Security Profile: Rustan Leino, Senior Principal Applied Scientist

I recently sat down with Rustan from the Automated Reasoning Group (ARG) at AWS to learn more about the prestigious Computer Aided Verification (CAV) Award that he received, and to understand the work that led to the prize. CAV is a top international conference on formal verification of software and hardware. It brings together experts […]

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AWS Security Profile: John Backes, Senior Software Development Engineer

AWS scientists and engineers believe in partnering closely with the academic and research community to drive innovation in a variety of areas of our business, including cloud security. One of the ways they do this is through participating in and sponsoring scientific conferences, where leaders in fields such as automated reasoning, artificial intelligence, and machine […]

How to migrate a digital signing workload to AWS CloudHSM

Feb 17, 2025: This blog post references AWS CloudHSM Client SDK 3, which is no longer the recommended version. AWS recommends that you use the latest version, AWS CloudHSM Client SDK 5, which provides updated functionality and commands. We are currently working on an updated blog post for CloudHSM Client SDK 5. See the AWS […]

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Top 10 Security Blog posts in 2019 so far

September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Twice a year, we like to share what’s been popular to let you know what everyone’s reading and so you don’t miss something interesting. One of the top posts so far this year has been the registration announcement for the […]

How to set up an outbound VPC proxy with domain whitelisting and content filtering

May 12, 2025: We’ve updated the CloudFormation template to use a launch template instead of a launch configuration. November 16, 2020: We’ve updated the CloudFormation template and the launch stack URL used in this solution. July 24, 2019: We’ve added a link to a GitHub repository that contains the stack content for this solution. Controlling […]

Introducing the AWS Security Incident Response Whitepaper

April 25, 2023: We’ve updated this blog post to include more security learning resources. AWS recently released the AWS Security Incident Response whitepaper, to help you understand the fundamentals of responding to security incidents within your cloud environment. The whitepaper reviews how to prepare your organization for detecting and responding to security incidents, explores the […]

AWS Security Profiles: Mark Ryland, Director, Office of the CISO

Mark Ryland at the AWS Summit Berlin keynote In the weeks leading up to re:Inforce, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. How long have you been at AWS and […]