Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) has added two new APIs that enable you to automate validation and auditing of permissions for your IAM users, groups, and roles. Using these two APIs, you can call the IAM policy simulator using the AWS CLI or any of the AWS SDKs. Use the new iam:SimulatePrincipalPolicy API to […]

AWS’s industry-leading security strength benefits you in many ways, one of which is by using a platform that is audited extensively by independent third-party assessors. At times, these audits confirm we can meet new requirements, even as they are issued, and this is the case for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines 800-171, […]

Positive news for our Australian customers: we recently launched a compliance hub and FAQ page for Australian government customers and their assessors for the Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) on implementing the Australian Signals Directorate’s (ASD) Information Security Manual (ISM). The new hub and FAQ address many of the questions that Australian government customers […]

This year we released managed policies to enable you to create a set of stand-alone policies that you can attach to multiple IAM entities (users, groups, and roles) in your AWS account. Since that release, we have heard from many of you that you’d prefer to mix and match policies instead of just using one universal […]

September 16 update: The full schedule is now included below. Even though AWS re:Invent 2015 is sold out, you can still get the latest announcements and product information by viewing our Livestream Broadcasts of the keynotes and select technical breakout sessions. Sign up for the Livestream Broadcasts now.

As I said in yesterday’s blog post, How to Migrate Your Microsoft Active Directory Users to Simple AD, AWS Directory Service allows you to create a standalone, highly available AWS-managed directory called Simple AD in a matter of minutes. With Simple AD, you can centrally manage user accounts and group memberships for Amazon EC2 instances […]

AWS Directory Service allows you to create a standalone, highly available AWS-managed directory called Simple AD in a matter of minutes. With Simple AD, you can centrally manage user accounts and group memberships for Amazon EC2 instances joined to a domain. It also allows you to use a single set of credentials to log in […]

AWS is an attractive environment for regulated data, including Criminal Justice Information (CJI) subject to the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy. AWS customers have used the AWS cloud for a wide range of sensitive federal and state government workloads, including CJI data. Law enforcement customers and partners who manage CJI are taking advantage […]

Note: Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 3.0 uses form-based authentication by default. If you are using AD FS 3.0 in this configuration, use the solution presented in this post. In my earlier post, How to Implement Federated API and CLI Access Using SAML 2.0 and AD FS, I walked through how to implement federated API […]

We’re happy to announce the availability (upon request) of the 2015 AWS PCI Compliance Package, an assessment completed against the newly released PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Version 3.1. The PCI DSS is a globally accepted security standard that customers use to support a wide range of sensitive workloads, including the processing and storage […]