AWS Security Blog

Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers need enhanced insight into IP network flow. Traditionally, cost, the complexity of collection, and the time required for analysis has led to incomplete investigations of network flows. Having good telemetry is paramount, and VPC Flow Logs are a very important part of a robust centralized logging architecture. The information […]

January 30, 2024: The API in this blog post has been changed in newer version of the AWS CRT Client. See this page for more info. January 25, 2023: AWS KMS, ACM, Secrets Manager TLS endpoints have been updated to only support NIST’s Round 3 picked KEM, Kyber. s2n-tls and s2n-quic have also been updated […]

At AWS, we’re committed to providing our customers with continued assurance over the security, availability and confidentiality of the AWS control environment. We’re proud to deliver the System and Organizational (SOC) 1, 2 and 3 reports to enable our AWS customers to maintain confidence in AWS services. For the Fall 2020 SOC reports, covering 04/01/2020 […]

Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed service that lets you stream applications and desktops to your users. In this post, I’ll show you how to record a video of AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions by using FFmpeg, a popular media framework. There are many use cases for session recording, such as auditing administrative access, troubleshooting […]

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. In this post, I discuss how to use AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to combine […]

In response to the current shift towards a remote workforce, companies are providing greater access to corporate applications from a range of different devices. Amazon WorkSpaces is a desktop-as-a-service solution that can be used to quickly deploy cloud-based desktops to your external users, including employees, third-party vendors, and consultants. Amazon WorkSpaces desktops are accessible from […]

October 3, 2021: In the section “Step 3: Create the role for the sysadmin persona,” we’ve corrected step 1 to indicate that sign in occurs through the administrator account, rather than the member account. AWS Security Hub provides you with a comprehensive view of your security posture across your accounts in Amazon Web Services (AWS) […]

January 28, 2025: The following blog post highlights how to implement passwordless authentication with Amazon Cognito and WebAuthn. Amazon Cognito added support for passwordless authentication, including passkeys, email one-time passwords (OTPs), and SMS OTPs, for secure and seamless sign-ins. However, this blog post may still be of interest to you if you want to learn […]

October 23: This post has been updated to utilize Duo Web v4 SDK and OIDC approach for integration with Duo two-factor authentication. Adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) reduces the risk of user account take-over, phishing, and password theft. Adding MFA while providing a frictionless sign-in experience requires you to offer a variety of MFA options that […]

Whether your web applications provide static or dynamic content, you can improve their performance, availability, and security by using Amazon CloudFront as your content delivery network (CDN). CloudFront is a web service that speeds up distribution of your web content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations. CloudFront ensures that end-user requests […]