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How to build a Security Guardians program to distribute security ownership

Welcome to the second post in our series on Security Guardians, a mechanism to distribute security ownership at Amazon Web Services (AWS) that trains, develops, and empowers builder teams to make security decisions about the software that they create. In the previous post, you learned the importance of building a culture of security ownership to […]

How AWS uses active defense to help protect customers from security threats

AWS is deeply committed to earning and maintaining the trust of customers who rely on us to run their workloads. Security has always been our top priority, which includes designing our own services with security in mind at the outset, and taking proactive measures to mitigate potential threats so that customers can focus on their […]

AI AuthZ

Enhancing data privacy with layered authorization for Amazon Bedrock Agents

April 3, 2025: We’ve updated this post to reflect the new 2025 OWASP top 10 for LLM entries. Customers are finding several advantages to using generative AI within their applications. However, using generative AI adds new considerations when reviewing the threat model of an application, whether you’re using it to improve the customer experience for […]

2024 H1 IRAP report is now available on AWS Artifact for Australian customers

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce that a new Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) report (2024 H1) is now available through AWS Artifact. An independent Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) certified IRAP assessor completed the IRAP assessment of AWS in August 2024. The new IRAP report includes an additional seven AWS services that are now assessed at the […]

Automate detection and response to website defacement with Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics

Website defacement occurs when threat actors gain unauthorized access to a website, most commonly a public website, and replace content on the site with their own messages. In this blog post, we show you how to detect website defacement, and then automate both defacement verification and your defacement response by using Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics visual […]

Solution architecture

Create security observability using generative AI with Security Lake and Amazon Q in QuickSight

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is now a household topic and popular across various public applications. Users enter prompts to get answers to questions, write code, create images, improve their writing, and synthesize information. As people become familiar with generative AI, businesses are looking for ways to apply these concepts to their enterprise use cases in […]

New whitepaper available: Building security from the ground up with Secure by Design

Developing secure products and services is imperative for organizations that are looking to strengthen operational resilience and build customer trust. However, system design often prioritizes performance, functionality, and user experience over security. This approach can lead to vulnerabilities across the supply chain. As security threats continue to evolve, the concept of Secure by Design (SbD) […]

French Flag

AWS achieves HDS certification in four additional AWS Regions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that four additional AWS Regions—Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Israel (Tel Aviv)—have been granted the Health Data Hosting (Hébergeur de Données de Santé, HDS) certification, increasing the scope to 24 global AWS Regions. The Agence du Numérique en Santé (ANS), the French […]

Using Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection to scan uploads to Amazon S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a widely used object storage service known for its scalability, availability, durability, security, and performance. When sharing data between organizations, customers need to treat incoming data as untrusted and assess it for malicious files before ingesting it into their downstream processes. This traditionally requires setting up secure staging […]

SaaS authentication: Identity management with Amazon Cognito user pools

Amazon Cognito is a customer identity and access management (CIAM) service that can scale to millions of users. Although the Cognito documentation details which multi-tenancy models are available, determining when to use each model can sometimes be challenging. In this blog post, we’ll provide guidance on when to use each model and review their pros […]