Tag: Security Blog

Update: The on-demand recording and slides from this webinar are now available. As part of the AWS Webinar Series, AWS will present Troubleshoot Operational & Security Incidents with CloudTrail on Wednesday, July 29. This webinar will start at 12:00 P.M. (noon) and end at 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time (UTC-7). AWS Senior Product Manager Sivakanth Mundru will help you understand the […]

Amazon Glacier, which enables long-term storage of mission-critical data, has added Vault Lock. This new feature allows you to lock your vault with a variety of compliance controls that are designed to support such long-term records retention. You can now create a Vault Lock policy on a vault, and after it is locked, the policy […]

February 22, 2022: s2n has been renamed to s2n-tls. See details. At Amazon Web Services, strong encryption is one of our standard features, and an integral aspect of that is the TLS (previously called SSL) encryption protocol. TLS is used with every AWS API and is also available directly to customers of many AWS services […]

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices recommend using IAM users or roles to access your AWS resources, instead of using your root credentials. If you follow this best practice, though, how can you monitor for root activity and take action if such activity occurs? AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch provide the solution. In […]

PCI compliance in the cloud is an important topic for many of our customers. Our PCI FAQ page has received more than 45,000 views, and we have issued our PCI compliance package directly to customers in all major regions and industry verticals. To build on our growing demand of PCI enablers, today we’re happy to […]

Amazon knows customers care deeply about privacy and data security, and we optimize our work to get these issues right for customers. With this post I’d like to provide a number of observations on our policies and positions: Amazon does not disclose customer information unless we’re required to do so to comply with a legally […]

Update: The on-demand recording and slides from this webinar are now available.   As part of the AWS Webinar Series, AWS will present Deep Dive: Protecting Your Data with AWS Encryption on Tuesday, June 16. This webinar will start at 9:00 A.M. and end at 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time (UTC-7). AWS Principal Product Manager Ken Beer […]

July 24, 2020: The whitepaper Auditing Security Checklist in the list of additional resources has been replaced by a Cloud Audit Academy course.   The security of personally identifiable information (PII) continues to be an important topic among all sectors, and education is no exception. Covered entities subject to FERPA are turning to cloud computing […]

Note from September 20, 2017: Based on customer feedback, we have moved the process outlined in this post to the official AWS documentation. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) has a list of best practices that you are encouraged to use. One of those best practices is to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for your AWS root […]

Feb 21 2023: This post is out of date. AWS now recommends using IAM Identity Center for federated identities accessing AWS by the CLI. Please see this post for more info: AWS CLI v2 Preview Now Supports AWS Single Sign-On Important note from July 18, 2019: The original version of this blog uses Python2.x scripts. […]