AWS Security Blog

  The updated AWS Service Organization Control (SOC) 1 and SOC 2 Security, Availability, and Confidentiality Reports covering the period of October 1, 2016, through March 31, 2017, are now available. Because we are always looking for ways to improve the customer experience, the current AWS SOC 2 Confidentiality Report has been combined with the […]

Today, we released the Aligning to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework in the AWS Cloud whitepaper. Both public and commercial sector organizations can use this whitepaper to assess the AWS environment against the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and improve the security measures they implement and operate (also known as security […]

AWS is excited to announce that the AWS EU (London) Region has achieved Public Services Network (PSN) assurance. This means that the EU (London) Region can now be connected to the PSN (or PSN customers) by PSN-certified AWS Direct Connect partners. PSN assurance demonstrates to our UK Public Sector customers that the EU (London) Region […]

September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. August 31, 2020: The directions in this blog post for how to create an Amazon ES cluster have been updated. February 28, 2019: The features and services described in this post have changed since the post was published and the […]

You can now use Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) to exchange sensitive data between applications using server-side encryption (SSE). SQS is a fully managed message queuing service for reliably communicating between distributed software components and microservices at any scale. You can use SQS to take advantage of the scale, cost, and operational benefits of a […]

We are pleased to announce that the following four AWS services have been added in recent weeks to the AWS Business Associate Agreement (BAA): Amazon API Gateway (excluding the use of Amazon API Gateway caching) Amazon SQS AWS Database Migration Service AWS Direct Connect As with all HIPAA Eligible Services covered under the BAA, Protected Health […]

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Microsoft AD, now supports Microsoft Remote Desktop Licensing Manager (RD Licensing). By using AWS Microsoft AD as the directory for your Remote Desktop Services solution, you reduce the time it takes to deploy remote desktop solutions on Amazon EC2 for Windows Server instances, and […]

Amazon QuickSight democratizes business intelligence, making it easier and cheaper for you to provide advanced business analytics capabilities to everyone in your organization. Amazon QuickSight also enables you to understand your business better and helps you make data-driven decisions more quickly. However, determining who has access to which data in your organization can still be […]

Hardware multi-factor authentication (MFA) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region to help strengthen data security while giving you control over token keys that have access to your data. MFA is a best practice that adds an extra layer of protection on top of users’ user names and passwords. These token keys that […]

Today, I am pleased to announce that the AWS GovCloud (US) Region has received Defense Information Systems Agency Impact Level 4 (IL4) Provisional Authorization (PA) for more than one dozen new services. The IL4 PA enables Department of Defense (DoD) customers to operate their mission-critical and regulated workloads in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, with data […]