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How to use Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Web Application Firewall to automatically block suspicious hosts

April 25, 2023: We’ve updated this blog post to include more security learning resources. When you’re implementing security measures across your AWS resources, you should use a holistic approach that incorporates controls across multiple areas. In the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) Security perspective whitepaper, we define these controls across four categories. Directive controls. Establish the […]

Using AWS CloudHSM-backed certificates with Microsoft Internet Information Server

Feb 17, 2025: This blog post references AWS CloudHSM Client SDK 3, which is no longer the recommended version. AWS recommends that you use the latest version, AWS CloudHSM Client SDK 5, which provides updated functionality and commands. We are currently working on an updated blog post for CloudHSM Client SDK 5. See the AWS […]

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now PCI DSS compliant, allowing you to process sensitive payment card data in-memory for faster performance

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis has achieved the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). This means that you can now use ElastiCache for Redis for low-latency and high-throughput in-memory processing of sensitive payment card data, such as Customer Cardholder Data (CHD). ElastiCache for Redis is a Redis-compatible, fully-managed, in-memory data store and caching service […]

U.K. National Health Services IGToolkit Assessment report now available

We know that customers often seek out third-party tools to allow for the baselining and benchmarking of their environment. Additionally, healthcare and life sciences customers (HCLS) have specific needs, which is why we continually strive to meet relevant global standards validating our security and compliance. Today, we’d like to take a look at a new […]

Accept a BAA with AWS for all accounts in your organization

I’m excited to announce to our healthcare customers and partners that you can now accept a single AWS Business Associate Addendum (BAA) for all accounts within your organization. Once accepted, all current and future accounts created or added to your organization will immediately be covered by the BAA. Our team is always thinking about how […]

Delegate permission management to developers by using IAM permissions boundaries

Today, AWS released a new IAM feature that makes it easier for you to delegate permissions management to trusted employees. As your organization grows, you might want to allow trusted employees to configure and manage IAM permissions to help your organization scale permission management and move workloads to AWS faster. For example, you might want […]

How to connect to AWS Secrets Manager service within a Virtual Private Cloud

You can now use AWS Secrets Manager with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints powered by AWS Privatelink and keep traffic between your VPC and Secrets Manager within the AWS network. AWS Secrets Manager is a secrets management service that helps you protect access to your applications, services, and IT resources. This service enables […]

Recovering from a rough Monday morning: An Amazon GuardDuty threat detection and remediation scenario

Amazon GuardDuty is a managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior to help you protect your AWS accounts and workloads. Given the many log types that Amazon GuardDuty analyzes (Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs, AWS CloudTrail, and DNS logs), you never know what it might discover in your […]

New PCI DSS report now available, eight services added in scope

We continue to expand the scope of our assurance programs to support your most important workloads. I’m pleased to tell you that eight services have been added to the scope of our Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification. With these additions, you can now select from a total of 62 PCI-compliant services. […]

Podcast: We developed Amazon GuardDuty to meet scaling demands, now it could assist with compliance considerations such as GDPR

It isn’t simple to meet the scaling requirements of AWS when creating a threat detection monitoring service. Our service teams have to maintain the ability to deliver at a rapid pace. That led to the question what can be done to make a security service as frictionless as possible to business demands? Core parts of […]