Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) celebrated its one-year launch anniversary in November 2015, and organizations of all sizes are using it to effectively manage their encryption keys. KMS also successfully completed the PCI DSS 3.1 Level 1 assessment as well as the latest SOC assessment in August 2015. One question KMS customers frequently ask […]

Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) is a must-have whenever sensitive data is moved to and from a website. For example, sites that need to meet compliance requirements such as PCI-DSS, FedRAMP, and HIPAA make extensive use of SSL/TLS. Unfortunately, provisioning and managing SSL/TLS certificates can entail a lot of work that is usually manual […]

We’re happy to announce that customers now are enabled to bring the next generation of medical, health, and wellness solutions to their GxP systems by using AWS for their processing and storage needs. Compliance with healthcare and life sciences requirements is a key priority for us, and we are pleased to announce the availability of […]

AWS Config recently added the ability to record changes to the configuration of your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users, groups, and roles (collectively referred to as IAM entities) and the policies associated with them. Using this feature, you can record configuration details for these IAM entities, including details about which policies are associated […]

Deleting unused resources can help to improve the security of your AWS account and make your account easier to manage. However, if you have ever been unsure of whether an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user or role was being used actively, you probably erred on the side of caution and kept it. Starting […]

As another new year begins, we encourage you to review our recommended AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices. Following these best practices can help you maintain the security of your AWS resources. You can learn more by watching the IAM Best Practices to Live By presentation that Anders Samuelsson gave at AWS re:Invent […]

The following 20 posts are the most popular posts that were published in 2015 on the AWS Security Blog. You can use this list as a guide to do some catchup reading or even read a post again that you found particularly valuable. Introducing s2n, a New Open Source TLS Implementation Customer Update—AWS and EU Safe […]

AWS has just completed our annual audit of ISO 27001, a certification we achieved back in 2010. 10 new services are now in scope under ISO 27001: Amazon CloudFront Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) Amazon WorkDocs Amazon WorkMail Amazon WorkSpaces AWS Directory Service AWS Key […]

In my previous post, I introduced service last accessed data, a new feature of the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) console that helps you define policies that adhere better to the principle of least privilege. As part of that post, I walked through a sample use case demonstrating how you can use service last […]

Note from December 3, 2019: The features and services described in this post have changed since the post was published and the procedures described might be out of date and no longer accurate. If we update this post or create a replacement, we’ll add a notification about it here. Update on August 23, 2018: We […]