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September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) is a fully managed service that you can use to deploy, secure, and run Elasticsearch cost-effectively at scale. The service provides support for open-source Elasticsearch APIs, managed Kibana, and integration with Logstash and other AWS […]

October 29, 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. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) now supports asymmetric keys. You can create, manage, and […]

You can use AWS Organizations to centrally govern and manage multiple accounts as you scale your AWS workloads. With AWS Organizations, central security administrators can use service control policies (SCPs) to establish permission guardrails that all IAM users and roles in the organization’s accounts adhere to. When teams and projects are just getting started, administrators […]

April 29, 2022: This post has been updated based on working backwards from a customer need to securely allow access and use of Amazon RDS database credentials from a AWS Lambda function. In this blog post, we will show you how to use AWS Secrets Manager to secure your database credentials and send them to […]

October 2, 2024: This post was republished to update the terminology for management 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 […]

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 […]

September 19, 2025: This post was updated to reflect that AWS Organizations now offers full IAM policy language support for service control policies (SCPs). Details of this new feature are outlined in this post. AWS Organizations provides central governance and management for multiple accounts. Central security administrators use service control policies (SCPs) with AWS Organizations […]

August 10, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. You can now more quickly view and update all your security credentials from one place using the “My Security Credentials” page in the AWS […]

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has awarded PROTECTED certification to AWS for 42 of our cloud services. This is the highest data security certification available in Australia for cloud service providers, and AWS offers the most PROTECTED services of any public cloud service provider. You will find AWS on the ACSC’s Certified Cloud Services […]

September 12, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. If you’re an IT administrator of a growing workforce, your users will require access to a growing number of business applications and AWS accounts. […]