AWS Security Blog
How to get specific security information about AWS services
September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details.
December 10, 2019: This post was originally published July 2019. Since then, the number of services with a dedicated security chapter has grown from 40 to over 70. We’ve updated our post accordingly.
We’re excited to announce the launch of dedicated security chapters in the AWS documentation for over 70 services. Security is a key component of your decision to use the cloud. These chapters can help your organization get in-depth information about both the built-in and the configurable security of AWS services. This information goes beyond “how-to.” It can help developers—as well as Security, Risk Management, Compliance, and Product teams—assess a service prior to use, determine how to use a service securely, and get updated information as new features are released.
This initiative is a direct result of customer requests for easy-to-find, easy-to-consume security documentation. Our new chapters provide information about the security of the cloud and in the cloud, as outlined in the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, for each service. The chapters align with the Cloud Adoption Framework: Security Perspective and include information about the following topics, as applicable:
- Data protection
- Identity and access management
- Logging and monitoring
- Compliance validation
- Resilience
- Infrastructure security
- Configuration and vulnerability analysis
- Security best practices
You can find links to the security chapters on the AWS Security Documentation page, which will be updated as more security chapters become available. Here are links to the new Security chapters we’ve released so far:
- Amazon Athena
- Amazon Aurora
- Amazon Chime
- Amazon CloudFront
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon Comprehend
- Amazon DocumentDB
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
- Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)
- Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
- Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service
- Amazon EMR
- Amazon FreeRTOS
- Amazon Kendra
- Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Java Applications
- Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL Applications
- Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
- Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
- Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
- Amazon Lambda
- Amazon Lex
- Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
- Amazon Neptune
- Amazon QuickSight
- Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
- Amazon Rekognition
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
- Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier
- Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
- Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
- Amazon Transcribe
- Amazon Translate
- Amazon WorkDocs
- Amazon WorkMail
- Amazon WorkSpaces
- AWS App Mesh
- AWS Backup
- AWS Batch
- AWS Cloud Map
- AWS CloudTrail
- AWS CodeBuild
- AWS Control Tower
- AWS Data Exchange
- AWS DataSync
- AWS Direct Connect
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- AWS Elemental MediaConnect
- AWS Elemental MediaConvert
- AWS Elemental MediaLive
- AWS Elemental MediaPackage
- AWS Elemental MediaStore
- AWS Elemental MediaTailor
- AWS Glue
- AWS IoT Analytics
- AWS IoT Core
- AWS IoT Things Graph
- AWS Lambda
- AWS License Manager
- AWS Marketplace
- AWS Organizations
- AWS Security Hub
- AWS Service Catalog
- AWS Snowball
- AWS Snowball Edge
- AWS WAF
- AWS X-Ray
- Elastic Load Balancing
You can give us your feedback by selecting the Feedback button in the lower right corner of any documentation page. We look forward to learning how you use this information within your organization and how we can continue to provide useful resources to you.