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In May 2013, we announced support for federation using identities Amazon, Facebook, and Google (a.k.a. web identity federation), which allows your apps to authenticate users via Amazon, Facebook, or Google and then access AWS resources managed under your account. To help you understand how web identity federation works, today we’re releasing the Web Identity Federation […]

If you’re a frequent reader of this blog, you probably know that AWS recommends as a security best practice that you set up one or more AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users for interaction with AWS services, rather than use your root account. Why? The credentials for your AWS root account provide full access […]

Dear readers, We hope you’ve found our posts over the past couple of months both informative and useful. While we’ve posted a variety of topics to appeal to a broad audience, we’d like to hear directly from you about what we could do better. What additional topics would you like us to write about related […]

Log into Facebook or Google, then access AWS resources? Impossible (well, perhaps difficult…) you say – until now. On 5/28 the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team launched web identity federation. This new feature expands existing AWS identity federation capabilities to include support for public identity providers such as Facebook, Google, or the newly […]

Thinking about building a secure delegation solution to grant temporary access to your AWS account?  This week’s guest blogger Kai Zhao, Product Manager on our AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, will discuss some considerations when deciding on an approach: Introduction Using temporary security credentials (“sessions”) enables you to securely delegate access to your AWS environment […]

In this series of blog posts, we’ll walk through different ways to keep your AWS resources secure using AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). As a best practice, we strongly recommend that you secure access to your account with AWS MFA.  It’s a simple way to add an extra layer of protection on top of your username […]

This blog will feature information for customers interested in AWS security and compliance.  You’ll see content from many AWS team members covering a range of topics, including: Security best practices for AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, AWS IAM, and others How-to guides Compliance milestones Customer and partner stories And more! To get future […]