Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

AWS Security Token Service (STS), which enables your applications to request temporary security credentials, is now available in every AWS region. Previously, STS had only a single endpoint (https://sts.amazonaws.com), but now, there is an endpoint in every AWS region. By bringing STS to a region geographically closer to you, your applications and services can call […]

AWS recently announced a new feature of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM): managed policies. Managed policies enable you to attach a single policy to multiple IAM users, groups, and roles (in this blog post referred to collectively as “IAM entities”). When you update a managed policy, the permissions in that policy apply to every […]

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 […]

Last month, the AWS Security Blog encouraged you to adhere to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices. One of these best practices is to lock away your AWS account (root) access keys and password, and not use them for day-to-day interaction with AWS. In fact, when it comes to your root account access […]

With the steady stream of updates and enhancements for AWS services, it can be easy to miss important information about features related to security. Here are some recent security-related updates and announcements about AWS services that you might not have heard about yet. Customizable security groups and multiple task instances now available for Amazon EMR […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recognizes that when law enforcement agencies place information in the cloud, they require timely and secure access to that information. AWS architecture provides a highly scalable and reliable platform that enables AWS customers to deploy applications and data quickly and securely in support of a wide variety of security and regulatory […]

With the AWS Frankfurt Region officially launched, we’d like to share European and data protection–specific information we’ve published to assist AWS customers who want to store content containing personal data. This information can be found in the newly released Whitepaper on EU Data Protection, a key resource available to customers who want to use AWS […]

November 24, 2021: This blog post announced a feature of AWS CloudHSM Classic which integrated with Amazon RDS for Oracle to provide customers with an easy integration for Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). The AWS CloudHSM team have since released AWS CloudHSM, and this feature is no longer available. For updated options, please see out this […]

As another new year begins, we want to encourage you to be familiar with recommended AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices. Following these best practices can help you maintain the security of your AWS account. You can learn more by watching the IAM Best Practices presentation that was given by Anders Samuelsson at […]

Today, Amazon RDS for MySQL and PostgreSQL released support for database encryption using AWS Key Management Service (KMS). This feature addresses a common request from customers who have asked for an easy way to encrypt data in these RDS database types. When you create a new MySQL or PostgreSQL database instance, you can choose to […]