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The Top 10 Most Downloaded AWS Security and Compliance Documents in 2017
July 24, 2020: The number 9 item in this list, the Auditing Security Checklist, has been replaced by a Cloud Audit Academy course. The following list includes the ten most downloaded AWS security and compliance documents in 2017. Using this list, you can learn about what other AWS customers found most interesting about security and […]
The Most Viewed AWS Security Blog Posts in 2017
September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The following 10 posts were the most viewed AWS Security Blog posts that we published during 2017. You can use this list as a guide to catch up on your AWS Security Blog reading or read a post again that […]
How to Encrypt Amazon S3 Objects with the AWS SDK for Ruby
August 31, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. Recently, Amazon announced some new Amazon S3 encryption and security features. The AWS Blog post […]
AWS Updated Its ISO Certifications and Now Has 67 Services Under ISO Compliance
AWS has updated its certifications against ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 27018 standards, bringing the total to 67 services now under ISO compliance. We added the following 29 services this cycle: • Amazon Aurora • Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration • AWS Lambda@Edge • Amazon Cloud Directory • Amazon SageMaker • AWS Managed […]
How to Set Up Continuous Golden AMI Vulnerability Assessments with Amazon Inspector
As companies mature in their cloud journey, they implement layered security capabilities and practices in their cloud architectures. One such practice is to continually assess golden Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for security vulnerabilities. AMIs provide the information required to launch an Amazon EC2 instance, which is a virtual server in the AWS Cloud. A golden […]
AWS Organizations Now Supports Self-Service Removal of Accounts from an Organization
August 24, 2020: We’ve updated this post to reflect changes to the requirements for removing an account from an organization. Today, AWS Organizations made it easier for you to remove AWS accounts from an organization. You can remove accounts from an organization without requiring assistance from AWS Support, and the accounts you remove can operate […]
Videos and Slide Decks from the AWS re:Invent 2017 Security, Compliance, & Identity Track
Whether you want to review a Security, Compliance, & Identity track session you attended at AWS re:Invent 2017, or you want to experience a session for the first time, videos and slide decks from the Security, Compliance, & Identity track are now available. Introductory SID201: IAM for Enterprises: How Vanguard Strikes the Balance Between Agility, Governance, […]
How to Enhance the Security of Sensitive Customer Data by Using Amazon CloudFront Field-Level Encryption
Amazon CloudFront is a web service that speeds up distribution of your static and dynamic web content to end users through a worldwide network of edge locations. CloudFront provides a number of benefits and capabilities that can help you secure your applications and content while meeting compliance requirements. For example, you can configure CloudFront to […]
Now Available: New Digital Training to Help You Learn About AWS Cloud Security
Cloud security with scalability and innovation: at AWS, this is our top priority. To help you securely architect cloud solutions, AWS Training and Certification recently added new free digital training about security, including a new course about Amazon GuardDuty, a new managed threat-detection service. These introductory courses, built by AWS experts, are suitable for users and decision makers […]
A New AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Blog Post: “AWS Achieves Full Empanelment for the Delivery of Cloud Services by India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology”
AWS recently announced that Amazon Internet Services Private Limited (AISPL), an Indian subsidiary of the Amazon Group that undertakes the resale and marketing of AWS Cloud services in India, has achieved full Cloud Service Provider (CSP) empanelment and successfully completed the Standardization Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) audit from the Indian Ministry of Electronics and […]