AWS Security Blog
Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance
New eBook: 5 Keys to Secure Enterprise Messaging
AWS is excited to announce a new eBook, 5 Keys to Secure Enterprise Messaging. The new eBook includes best practices for addressing the security and compliance risks associated with messaging apps. An estimated 3.09 billion mobile phone users access messaging apps to communicate, and this figure is projected to grow to 3.51 billion users in […]
Announcing the AWS Blueprint for Ransomware Defense
In this post, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduces the AWS Blueprint for Ransomware Defense, a new resource that both enterprise and public sector organizations can use to implement preventative measures to protect data from ransomware events. The AWS Blueprint for Ransomware Defense provides a mapping of AWS services and features as they align to aspects […]
Updated whitepaper available: Architecting for PCI DSS Segmentation and Scoping on AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has re-published the whitepaper Architecting for PCI DSS Scoping and Segmentation on AWS to provide guidance on how to properly define the scope of your Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) workloads that are running in the AWS Cloud. The whitepaper has been refreshed to include updated AWS best […]
AWS Security Profile: Ritesh Desai, GM, AWS Secrets Manager
In the AWS Security Profile series, we interview Amazon Web Services (AWS) thought leaders who help keep our customers safe and secure. This interview features Ritesh Desai, General Manager, AWS Secrets Manager, and re:Inforce 2023 session speaker, who shares thoughts on data protection, cloud security, secrets management, and more. What do you do in your […]
Amazon Security Lake is now generally available
Today we are thrilled to announce the general availability of Amazon Security Lake, first announced in a preview release at 2022 re:Invent. Security Lake centralizes security data from Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments, software as a service (SaaS) providers, on-premises, and cloud sources into a purpose-built data lake that is stored in your AWS account. […]
Exclude cipher suites at the API gateway using a Network Load Balancer security policy
In this blog post, we will show you how to use Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)—specifically a Network Load Balancer—to apply a more granular control on the cipher suites that are used between clients and servers when establishing an SSL/TLS connection with Amazon API Gateway. The solution uses virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoints (powered by […]
Faster AWS cloud connections with TLS 1.3
June 10, 2024: This blog post is updated to announce that TLS 1.3 is available on our AWS service API endpoints across each of our AWS Regions. January 12, 2024: Over 80% of AWS service API endpoints now support TLS 1.3, along with TLS 1.2. The remaining services are in progress on adding TLS 1.3 […]
Share and query encrypted data in AWS Clean Rooms
In this post, we’d like to introduce you to the cryptographic computing feature of AWS Clean Rooms. With AWS Clean Rooms, customers can run collaborative data-query sessions on sensitive data sets that live in different AWS accounts, and can do so without having to share, aggregate, or replicate the data. When customers also use the […]
A walk through AWS Verified Access policies
AWS Verified Access helps improve your organization’s security posture by using security trust providers to grant access to applications. This service grants access to applications only when the user’s identity and the user’s device meet configured security requirements. In this blog post, we will provide an overview of trust providers and policies, then walk through […]
Detect threats to your data stored in RDS databases by using GuardDuty
With Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), you can set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the AWS Cloud. Amazon RDS provides cost-efficient, resizable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks. If you use Amazon RDS for your workloads, you can now use Amazon GuardDuty RDS Protection to […]









