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Figure 1: Automation to build forensic kernel modules for an Amazon Linux EC2 instance

How to automatically build forensic kernel modules for Amazon Linux EC2 instances

In this blog post, we will walk you through the EC2 forensic module factory solution to deploy automation to build forensic kernel modules that are required for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) incident response automation. When an EC2 instance is suspected to have been compromised, it’s strongly recommended to investigate what happened to the […]

Announcing an update to IAM role trust policy behavior

February 9, 2023: The enforcement date has changed from February 15, 2023, to June 30, 2023. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is changing an aspect of how role trust policy evaluation behaves when a role assumes itself. Previously, roles implicitly trusted themselves from a role trust policy perspective if they had identity-based permissions to […]

AWS achieves its second ISMAP authorization in Japan

Earning and maintaining customer trust is an ongoing commitment at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our customers’ security requirements drive the scope and portfolio of the compliance reports, attestations, and certifications we pursue. We’re excited to announce that AWS has achieved authorization under the Information System Security Management and Assessment Program (ISMAP) program, effective from April […]

Sign Amazon SNS messages with SHA256 hashing for HTTP subscriptions

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports message signatures based on Secure Hash Algorithm 256 (SHA256) hashing. Amazon SNS signs the messages that are delivered from your Amazon SNS topic so that subscribed HTTP endpoints can verify the authenticity of the messages. In this blog post, we will show you how to enable message […]

Top reasons to import a certificate into AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

October 18, 2022: This blog post was updated and the title was changed to reflect the updated info. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is a service that lets you efficiently provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources. Public certificates that you request through ACM […]

154 AWS services achieve HITRUST certification

The AWS HITRUST Compliance Team is excited to announce that 154 Amazon Web Services (AWS) services are certified for the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) Common Security Framework (CSF) v9.6 for the 2022 cycle. These 154 AWS services were audited by a third-party assessor and certified under the HITRUST CSF. The full list is now […]

Amazon introduces dynamic intermediate certificate authorities

February 27, 2023: We’ve updated question and answer #3 on this blog post. October 7, 2022: This blog post has been updated to include a Frequently Asked Questions section at the end. September 30, 2022: This blog post has been updated to include the addition of the CN=Starfield Services Root Certificate Authority – G2,O=Starfield Technologies\, […]

Use AWS Network Firewall to filter outbound HTTPS traffic from applications hosted on Amazon EKS and collect hostnames provided by SNI

October 13, 2022: This post had been updated with diagram of Figure 1: Outbound internet access through Network Firewall from Amazon EKS worker nodes modified. This blog post shows how to set up an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster such that the applications hosted on the cluster can have their outbound internet access […]

Using AWS Shield Advanced protection groups to improve DDoS detection and mitigation

Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can use AWS Shield Advanced to detect and mitigate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that target their applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Elastic Local Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53. By using protection groups for Shield Advanced, you can logically […]

Figure 1: Step-up authentication high-level reference architecture

Implement step-up authentication with Amazon Cognito, Part 1: Solution overview

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to protect privileged business transactions that are exposed as APIs by using multi-factor authentication (MFA) or security challenges. These challenges have two components: what you know (such as passwords), and what you have (such as a one-time password token). By using these multi-factor security controls, you can implement […]