AWS Security Blog
Tag: Amazon API Gateway
Exclude cipher suites at the API gateway using a Network Load Balancer security policy
In this blog post, we will show you how to use Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)—specifically a Network Load Balancer—to apply a more granular control on the cipher suites that are used between clients and servers when establishing an SSL/TLS connection with Amazon API Gateway. The solution uses virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoints (powered by […]
Building fine-grained authorization using Amazon Cognito, API Gateway, and IAM
June 5, 2021: We’ve updated Figure 1: User request flow. Authorizing functionality of an application based on group membership is a best practice. If you’re building APIs with Amazon API Gateway and you need fine-grained access control for your users, you can use Amazon Cognito. Amazon Cognito allows you to use groups to create a […]
Use ACM Private CA for Amazon API Gateway Mutual TLS
October 5, 2021: In the section “Retrieving your ACM Private CA root CA certificate public key,” in step 4, we’ve updated the formatting of the commands to indicate placeholder text. May 14, 2021: In the section “Retrieving your ACM Private CA root CA certificate public key,” in step 1, we updated the command to include […]
Use AWS Lambda authorizers with a third-party identity provider to secure Amazon API Gateway REST APIs
February 24, 2021: We updated this post to fix a typo in the IAM policy in the “Building a Lambda authorizer” section. Note: This post focuses on Amazon API Gateway REST APIs used with OAuth 2.0 and custom AWS Lambda authorizers. API Gateway also offers HTTP APIs, which provide native OAuth 2.0 features. For more […]
AWS Adds 12 More Services to Its PCI DSS Compliance Program
Twelve more AWS services have obtained Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance, giving you more options, flexibility, and functionality to process and store sensitive payment card data in the AWS Cloud. The services were audited by Coalfire to ensure that they meet strict PCI DSS standards. The newly compliant AWS services are: […]
Four HIPAA Eligible Services Recently Added to the AWS Business Associate Agreement
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 […]
How to Reduce Security Threats and Operating Costs Using AWS WAF and Amazon CloudFront
Note from July 3, 2017: The solution in this post has been integrated into AWS WAF Security Automations, and AWS maintains up-to-date solution code in the companion GitHub repository. Some Internet operations trust that clients are “well behaved.” As an operator of a publicly accessible web application, for example, you have to trust that the clients […]