AWS Security Blog

Today, you can use AWS Network Firewall to protect traffic flowing to and from containerized applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) clusters. If you run AI and machine learning (ML) workloads on Amazon EKS—such as model inference, RAG pipelines, or JupyterHub—your containerized workloads require the same […]

If you manage secrets across multiple AWS accounts or need faster secret access for latency-sensitive applications, this post shows you how to meet those requirements using two new features of the AWS Workload Credentials Provider (provider). You will learn how to configure role chaining for cross-account secret retrieval and prefetching of secrets to reduce cold-start […]

The AWS Customer Incident Response Team (AWS CIRT) encounters patterns that repeat across engagements when helping customers respond to security incidents. We’re passionate about making sure that information is accessible so that everyone can improve their security posture and their organization’s resilience to disruption. The primary method we use to share this information is the […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced support for resource-based policies and resource control policies (RCPs) for AWS Sign-In. By using resource-based policies and RCPs, you can restrict access to the AWS Management Console sign-in and aws login CLI sessions to requests from your expected networks, your on-premises data center networks, and your Amazon Virtual Private […]

When securing an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment, teams naturally prioritize inbound controls, firewalls, WAFs, and access policies, because that’s where the most visible threats originate. Outbound traffic, on the other hand, tends to get less attention. It’s often left open by default to avoid breaking application dependencies and because the risk feels less immediate. […]

When a security event occurs in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment, rapid response is critical. However security teams often struggle with time-consuming, manual processes that slow down investigations. Analysts must recall complex AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) syntax for multiple services, manually correlate findings across Amazon GuardDuty, AWS CloudTrail, and other security tools, […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to release the Spring 2026 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1 and 2 reports in machine-readable OSCAL format alongside the PDF version of the reports. The reports cover 188 services over the 12-month period from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026, giving customers a full year of assurance. […]

What we believe We’ve been thinking deeply about enterprise security. The operating model that served us for the past decade (collect telemetry, store it, query it, build dashboards to watch it) is no longer keeping pace. We need to shift to the new world: telemetry, context, reasoning, and actions. An approach that produces outcomes. The […]

In this blog post you’ll learn how to detect and prevent subdomain takeover – a tactic where threat actors exploit dangling DNS records to redirect traffic to attacker-controlled resources. We’ll explain the issue, how the situation arises, and how you can use various AWS features and services to help mitigate the impact of this tactic. […]

Read all about the latest AWS security features, compliance updates, and hands-on resources in our new, monthly digest posts. You’ll find expert blog posts, new service capabilities, code samples, and workshops. AWS Security Blog posts This month’s AWS Security Blog posts covered AI security, network protection, identity management, compliance frameworks, and supply chain security. Read […]