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See yourself in cyber: Highlights from Cybersecurity Awareness Month

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close, we want to share some of the work we’ve done and made available to you throughout October. Over the last four weeks, we have shared insights and resources aligned with this year’s theme—”See Yourself in Cyber”—to help advance awareness training, and inspire people to join the rapidly […]

AWS successfully renews GSMA security certification for US East (Ohio) and Europe (Paris) Regions

Amazon Web Services is pleased to announce that our US East (Ohio) and Europe (Paris) Regions have been re-certified through October 2023 by the GSM Association (GSMA) under its Security Accreditation Scheme Subscription Management (SAS-SM) with scope Data Centre Operations and Management (DCOM). The US East (Ohio) and Europe (Paris) Regions first obtained GSMA certification […]

New AWS whitepaper: Using AWS in the Context of Canada’s Controlled Goods Program (CGP)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new whitepaper to help Canadian defense and security customers accelerate their use of the AWS Cloud. The new guide, Using AWS in the Context of Canada’s Controlled Goods Program (CGP), continues our efforts to help AWS customers navigate the regulatory expectations of the Government of Canada’s Controlled Goods […]

Use IAM Access Analyzer policy generation to grant fine-grained permissions for your AWS CloudFormation service roles

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer provides tools to simplify permissions management by making it simpler for you to set, verify, and refine permissions. One such tool is IAM Access Analyzer policy generation, which creates fine-grained policies based on your AWS CloudTrail access activity—for example, the actions you use with Amazon Elastic Compute […]

IAM Access Analyzer makes it simpler to author and validate role trust policies

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer provides many tools to help you set, verify, and refine permissions. One part of IAM Access Analyzer—policy validation—helps you author secure and functional policies that grant the intended permissions. Now, I’m excited to announce that AWS has updated the IAM console experience for role trust policies to […]

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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 […]

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How to automate updates for your domain list in Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall

Note: This post includes links to third-party websites. AWS is not responsible for the content on those websites. Following the release of Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall, Amazon Web Services (AWS) published several blog posts to help you protect your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) DNS resolution, including How to Get Started with […]

How to let builders create IAM resources while improving security and agility for your organization

September 7, 2022: The post was updated to rephrase the brief of creating builder role with the builder policy attached as the permissions policy. Many organizations restrict permissions to create and manage AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resources to a group of privileged users or a central team. This post explains how you can […]

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How to subscribe to the new Security Hub Announcements topic for Amazon SNS

With AWS Security Hub you are able to manage your security posture in AWS, perform security best practice checks, aggregate alerts, and automate remediation. Now you are able to use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to subscribe to the new Security Hub Announcements topic to receive updates about new Security Hub services and features, […]

How to centralize findings and automate deletion for unused IAM roles

Maintaining AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resources is similar to keeping your garden healthy over time. Having visibility into your IAM resources, especially the resources that are no longer used, is important to keep your AWS environment secure. Proactively detecting and responding to unused IAM roles helps you prevent unauthorized entities from gaining access […]