AWS Security Blog

Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

How to share encrypted AMIs across accounts to launch encrypted EC2 instances

May 18, 2023:We’ve updated the syntax in the JSON policy document in the Create the policy setting for the source account section. August 31, 2021:AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some […]

How to quickly launch encrypted EBS-backed EC2 instances from unencrypted AMIs

August 31, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) provides the information that you need to launch an instance […]

Improve availability and latency of applications by using AWS Secret Manager’s Python client-side caching library

November 1, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. Note from May 10, 2019: We’ve updated a code sample for accuracy. Today, AWS Secrets […]

How to BYOK (bring your own key) to AWS KMS for less than $15.00 a year using AWS CloudHSM

February 26, 2024: We’ve updated this post to replace the key_mgmt_util with cloudhsm-cli, which is part of the newer SDK 5. August 31, 2021:AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations […]

How to migrate your EC2 Oracle Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) database encryption wallet to CloudHSM

In this post, I’ll show you how to migrate an encryption wallet for an Oracle database installed on Amazon EC2 from using an outside HSM to using AWS CloudHSM. Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for Oracle is a common use case for Hardware Security Module (HSM) devices like AWS CloudHSM. Oracle TDE uses what is called […]

AWS Security Profiles: Paul Hawkins, Security Solutions Architect

Leading up to AWS Summit Sydney, we’re sharing our conversation with Paul Hawkins, who helped put together the summit’s “Secure” track, so you can learn more about him and some of the interesting work that he’s doing. What does a day in the life of an AWS Security Solutions Architect look like? That’s an interesting […]

AWS Organizations now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions for central governance and management of AWS accounts

AWS Organizations is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling you to centrally govern and manage your AWS GovCloud (US) accounts. AWS Organizations helps you to centrally manage billing; control access, compliance, and security; and share resources across your AWS accounts. Using AWS Organizations, you can: Define organization-wide permission guardrails to establish controls […]

Trimming AWS WAF logs with Amazon Kinesis Firehose transformations

In an earlier post, Enabling serverless security analytics using AWS WAF full logs, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight, published on March 28, 2019, the authors showed you how to stream WAF logs with Amazon Kinesis Firehose for visualization using QuickSight. This approach used no filtering of the logs so that you could visualize the full […]

AWS Security Profiles: CJ Moses, Deputy CISO and VP of Security Engineering

We recently sat down with CJ Moses, Deputy, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), to learn about his day-to-day as a cybersecurity executive. He also shared more about his passion for racecar driving and why AWS is partnering with the SRO GT World Challenge America series this year. How long have you been with AWS, and […]

AWS Security Profiles: Olivier Klein, Head of Emerging Technologies in the APAC region

Leading up to AWS Summit Singapore, we’re sharing our conversation with keynote speaker Olivier Klein about his work with emerging technology and about the overlap between “emerging technology” and “cloud security.” You’re the “Head of Emerging Technologies in the APAC region” on your team at AWS. What kind of work do you do? I continuously […]