Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

I’m excited to share that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has authorized 16 additional AWS services at Impact Level 4 and one service at Impact Level 5 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With these additional 16 services, AWS now offers a total of 72 services and features authorized to process data at Impact […]

August 31, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. In this post, I demonstrate a sample workflow for generating a digital signature within AWS […]

January 25, 2023: AWS KMS, ACM, Secrets Manager TLS endpoints have been updated to only support NIST’s Round 3 picked KEM, Kyber. s2n-tls and s2n-quic have also been updated to only support Kyber. BIKE or other KEMs may still be added as the standardization proceeds. AWS Cryptography has completed benchmarks of Round 2 Versions of […]

September 8, 2023: It’s important to know that if you activate user sign-up in your user pool, anyone on the internet can sign up for an account and sign in to your apps. Don’t enable self-registration in your user pool unless you want to open your app to allow users to sign up. On May […]

November 10, 2022: This project was successfully completed in March 2021. TLS 1.2 is now the minimum version supported for all connections to AWS FIPS service endpoints. Note we will be implementing the same policy for non-FIPS endpoints by June 2023. If you also use these endpoints see https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/tls-1-2-required-for-aws-endpoints/ for details. June 8, 2022: We’ve […]

February 24, 2021: We updated this post to fix a typo in the IAM policy in the “Building a Lambda authorizer” section. Note: This post focuses on Amazon API Gateway REST APIs used with OAuth 2.0 and custom AWS Lambda authorizers. API Gateway also offers HTTP APIs, which provide native OAuth 2.0 features. For more […]

August 10, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. If you’re looking to improve your cloud security, a good place to start is to follow the top 10 most important cloud security tips […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has authorized 15 additional AWS services in the AWS Secret Region for production workloads at the Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level (IL) 6 under the DoD’s Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (DoD CC SRG). The authorization at DoD IL 6 allows DoD Mission Owners to process classified and […]

November 19, 2021: We made minor updates to this post, such as updating the number of services in scope for SOC compliance from 124 to 141. January 18, 2021: We made minor updates to this post, such as updating the number of services in scope for SOC compliance from 122 to 124. July 21, 2020: […]

November 21, 2021: CloudHSM SDK3 does not support serverless environments, and we strongly recommend deploying SDK5. We are currently working on an updated blog post. AWS CloudHSM is a cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) that enables you to generate and use your own encryption keys on the AWS Cloud. With CloudHSM, you can manage your […]