AWS Security Blog
Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance
The Top 20 AWS IAM Documentation Pages so Far in 2017
The following 20 pages have been the most viewed AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) documentation pages so far this year. I have included a brief description with each link to explain what each page covers. Use this list to see what other AWS customers have been viewing and perhaps to pique your own interest […]
Read MoreAWS EU (London) Region Selected to Provide Services to Support UK Law Enforcement Customers
The AWS EU (London) Region has been selected to provide services to support UK law enforcement customers. This decision followed an assessment by Home Office Digital, Data and Technology supported by their colleagues in the National Policing Information Risk Management Team (NPIRMT) to determine the region’s suitability for addressing their specific needs. The security, privacy, […]
Read MoreRegister for and Attend this September 28 Tech Talk: “How to Use AWS WAF to Mitigate OWASP Top 10 Attacks”
October 1, 2017, update: This webinar is now available as an on-demand video and slide deck. As part of the AWS Online Tech Talks series, AWS will present How to Use AWS WAF to Mitigate OWASP Top 10 Attacks on Thursday, September 28. This tech talk will start at 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time and end at […]
Read MoreAmazon Cognito User Pools Now Integrates with Amazon Pinpoint to Add Analytics for User Pools
Amazon Cognito User Pools now integrates with Amazon Pinpoint to provide analytics for user pools and to enrich the user data for Amazon Pinpoint campaigns. Amazon Cognito User Pools provides user directories that make it easy to add sign-up and sign-in to your mobile or web application. Amazon Pinpoint provides analytics and targeted campaigns to drive […]
Read MoreHow to Enable Server-Side LDAPS for Your AWS Microsoft AD Directory
August 5, 2020: We’ve made numerous updates to this post to better reflect best practices around Microsoft Certificate Authority deployments. November 26, 2019: We’ve updated the language in this post to reflect new client-side LDAPS support in AWS Managed Microsoft AD. Starting today, you can encrypt the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) communications between your […]
Read MoreNow Use AWS IAM to Delete a Service-Linked Role When You No Longer Require an AWS Service to Perform Actions on Your Behalf
Earlier this year, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) introduced service-linked roles, which provide you an easy and secure way to delegate permissions to AWS services. Each service-linked role delegates permissions to an AWS service, which is called its linked service. Service-linked roles help with monitoring and auditing requirements by providing a transparent way to […]
Read MoreReset Your AWS Root Account’s Lost MFA Device Faster by Using the AWS Management Console
To help secure your AWS resources, AWS recommends that you follow the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practice of enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) for the root user of your account. With MFA turned on, the root user of your account is required to submit one form of authentication, which is the account password, […]
Read MoreHow to Query Personally Identifiable Information with Amazon Macie
June 15, 2020: This blog is out of date. Please refer here for the updated info: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-enhanced-amazon-macie-now-available/ In August 2017 at the AWS Summit New York, AWS launched a new security and compliance service called Amazon Macie. Macie uses machine learning to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS. In this blog post, […]
Read MoreAWS IAM Policy Summaries Now Help You Identify Errors and Correct Permissions in Your IAM Policies
In March, we made it easier to view and understand the permissions in your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies by using IAM policy summaries. Today, we updated policy summaries to help you identify and correct errors in your IAM policies. When you set permissions using IAM policies, for each action you specify, you […]
Read MoreHow to Enable Your Users to Access Office 365 with AWS Managed Microsoft AD
December 12, 2019: A customer reported that the architecture diagrams had a typo in it, and so we replaced the two diagrams to address the problem. You can now enable your users to access Microsoft Office 365 with credentials that you manage in AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Microsoft […]
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