AWS Security Blog

Tag: European Economic Area

EU Compliance Update

AWS made many launch announcements at AWS re:Invent 2016, including the announcement of a new compliance service, AWS Artifact. After so much recent activity, I want to highlight some EU-related news that you might have missed. AWS has completed its assessment against the Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalogue (C5) information security and compliance program. Bundesamt für […]

Customer Update: Amazon Web Services and the EU-US Privacy Shield

Recently, the European Commission and the US Government agreed on a new framework called the EU-US Privacy Shield, and on July 12, the European Commission formally adopted it. Amazon Web Services (AWS) welcomes this new framework for transatlantic data flow. As the EU-US Privacy Shield replaces Safe Harbor, we understand many of our customers have […]