AWS Security Blog

Tag: RDS

Three Data-at-Rest Encryption Announcements

We’re excited to make three announcements around encryption of data at rest in AWS: We’ve published a new whitepaper: Securing Data at Rest with Encryption, which describes the various options for encrypting data at rest in AWS. It describes these options in terms of where encryption keys are stored and how access to those keys […]

A Primer on RDS Resource-Level Permissions

Previously, we blogged about how to use resource-level permissions for Amazon EC2 to control access to specific EC2 instances.  Resource-level permissions can now also be applied to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).  This week’s guest blogger, Chris Checkwitch, Software Development Manager on the RDS team, will explain how to tackle the commonly requested use case of controlling access to […]