Tag: Announcements

In May 2013, we announced support for federation using identities Amazon, Facebook, and Google (a.k.a. web identity federation), which allows your apps to authenticate users via Amazon, Facebook, or Google and then access AWS resources managed under your account. To help you understand how web identity federation works, today we’re releasing the Web Identity Federation […]

Note: As of March 28, 2017,  Amazon EC2 supports tagging on creation, enforced tag usage, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resource-level permissions, and enforced volume encryption. See New – Tag EC2 Instances & EBS Volumes on Creation on the AWS Blog for more information. We are happy to announce that we launched resource-level permissions […]

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Log into Facebook or Google, then access AWS resources? Impossible (well, perhaps difficult…) you say – until now. On 5/28 the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team launched web identity federation. This new feature expands existing AWS identity federation capabilities to include support for public identity providers such as Facebook, Google, or the newly […]

I’m very excited to share that AWS is now a FedRAMP-compliant cloud service provider. See the Amazon press release. This is game-changing news for our U.S. government customers and systems integrators and other companies that provide products and services to the U.S. government because: It provides agencies a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and […]

AWS is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the AWS Service Organization Control (SOC) 3 report, which you can freely distribute. This report on AWS security practices enables you and your stakeholders to validate that AWS has obtained independent auditor assurance, which attests to our alignment with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants […]

This blog will feature information for customers interested in AWS security and compliance.  You’ll see content from many AWS team members covering a range of topics, including: Security best practices for AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, AWS IAM, and others How-to guides Compliance milestones Customer and partner stories And more! To get future […]