AWS Security Blog
Ease of use and secure defaults in the new AWS experience
Starting on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now more straightforward and more secure by default than it’s ever been. Over the past several months, we rolled out a new AWS experience that changes how you start building. It brings together a set of sensible, secure defaults, and taken one at a time, it’s easy to […]
Part 4 – Cybersecurity journeys: What I’d tell my younger self
Over the past few weeks, I’ve introduced you to people who fell into security from the most unexpected places, who work in domains you’ve probably never heard of, and who were honest about what the job is like after the excitement fades and the real work begins. This is the final post in a four-part […]
Reduce alert fatigue by customizing threat detection features in Amazon GuardDuty
The teams responsible for security today don’t have a problem with the number of alerts they receive; they have a problem turning those alerts into something truly actionable. When an analyst concludes an investigation with “this was caused by our vulnerability scanner” or “this account is configured to share Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) publicly on […]
AWS refreshes ProcessUnity Global Risk Exchange assessment to enhance customer’s third-party due diligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce renewal of the AWS ProcessUnity Global Risk Exchange assessment. This validated assessment report helps customers perform effective cloud supplier due diligence on AWS and enhances their third-party risk management process. What is the AWS ProcessUnity Global Risk Exchange assessment Many customers use third-party cyber risk management (TPCRM) […]
Digital sovereignty at re:Invent 2026: Sessions you won’t want to miss
AWS re:Invent returns to Las Vegas for cloud and AI’s biggest week from November 30–December 4, 2026. This year we have over 2,200 sessions, 70 percent of which are interactive, led by experts from Amazon Web Services (AWS), our customers, and our partners. With that much to choose from, we’ve pulled together the sessions built […]
Help defend against memory poisoning in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with multi-layer write validation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory helps AI agents maintain context across sessions through persistent short-term and long-term memory. Because memory content is automatically retrieved and injected into future conversations, the integrity of what gets written to memory directly shapes future agent behavior, which makes the write path a valuable control point to strengthen. AgentCore already provides […]
Simplify cross-partition access with AWS IAM outbound identity federation
You can now use tokens from AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) outbound federation to assume roles in other Amazon Web Services (AWS) partitions. When your workloads run across AWS partitions such as Commercial, China, GovCloud (US), and European Sovereign Cloud, a workload in one partition might need to access resources or communicate with AWS […]
Addressing protocol security gaps in multi-tenant Kubernetes
Protocols like Android Debug Bridge (ADB) and Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC), by default, use unencrypted channels for network communications and don’t support enterprise authentication mechanisms like JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). In a multi-tenant Kubernetes cluster—including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)—pods can reach other tenants’ open ports by default unless you configure network policies to […]
Introducing AWS account access manager: IAM role flexibility with centralized workforce access
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is introducing account access manager, a flexible new way to manage workforce access to your Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. This combines the IAM role flexibility your teams already rely on, delivered through the centralized federation of AWS IAM Identity Center, with user-level visibility built-in. Account access manager streamlines […]
Beyond DKIM key rotation: understanding email replay attacks
As the email administrator for your organization’s domain, you receive a Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) aggregate report showing email passing DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) verification as though it came from your domain, sent from IP addresses you don’t recognize to recipients you didn’t contact. To clear the issue, you rotate your DKIM […]








