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New SOC 2 Report Available: Confidentiality

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As with everything at Amazon, the success of our security and compliance program is primarily measured by one thing: our customers’ success. Our customers drive our portfolio of compliance reports, attestations, and certifications that support their efforts in running a secure and compliant cloud environment. As a result of our engagement with key customers across the globe, we are happy to announce the publication of our new SOC 2 Confidentiality report. This report is available now through AWS Artifact in the AWS Management Console.

We’ve been publishing SOC 2 Security and Availability Trust Principle reports for years now, and the Confidentiality criteria is complementary to the Security and Availability criteria. The SOC 2 Confidentiality Trust Principle, developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) Assurance Services Executive Committee (ASEC), outlines additional criteria focused on further safeguarding data, limiting and reducing access to authorized users, and addressing the effective and timely disposal of customer content after deletion by the customer.

The AWS SOC Report covers the data centers in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), AWS GovCloud (US), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and South America (São Paulo) Regions. See AWS Global Infrastructure for more information.

To request this report:

  1. Sign in to your AWS account.
  2. In the list of services under Security, Identity, and Compliance, choose Artifact, and on the next page choose the report you would like to review. Note that you might need to request approval from Amazon for some reports. Requests are reviewed and approved by Amazon within 24 hours.

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Author

Chad Woolf

Chad joined Amazon in 2010 and built the AWS compliance functions from the ground up, including audit and certifications, privacy, contract compliance, control automation engineering and security process monitoring. Chad’s work also includes enabling public sector and regulated industry adoption of the AWS cloud, compliance with complex privacy regulations such as GDPR and operating a trade and product compliance team in conjunction with global region expansion. Prior to joining AWS, Chad spent 12 years with Ernst & Young as a Senior Manager working directly with Fortune 100 companies consulting on IT process, security, risk, and vendor management advisory work, as well as designing and deploying global security and assurance software solutions. Chad holds a Masters of Information Systems Management and a Bachelors of Accounting from Brigham Young University, Utah. Follow Chad on Twitter.