AWS Security Blog

Ten years ago, we launched AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, a fully managed Microsoft Active Directory in the AWS Cloud. In that original announcement, Jeff Barr described a straightforward promise: “You will spend less time administering and more time working on your applications and your business.” A decade later, AWS Managed Microsoft AD […]

Misconfigured Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets can expose your data to unauthorized access. Without proactive review, S3 bucket policies or Access Control Lists (ACLs) configured with broad access may go unnoticed in your environment. In this post, you learn how to identify and fix over-permissioned S3 buckets across your AWS environment, along with […]

Customers tell us that managing TLS certificates at scale is one of their biggest operational concerns. The Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum) has mandated a phased reduction in maximum certificate validity for public certificates. By March 2027, the maximum validity drops to 100 days. By March 2029, it lasts for 47 days. For an […]

Security teams investigating AI-related incidents need guardrail intervention data alongside their existing security telemetry. Routing Amazon Bedrock Guardrails violations to Amazon Security Lake makes this possible. With this integration, you can query guardrail events alongside identity, network, and application security data in a single layer. When a guardrail blocks a prompt injection attempt or redacts […]

This post assumes familiarity with envelope encryption and the AWS Encryption SDK. When your encryption system generates millions of duplicate API calls per hour, costs spiral and performance degrades. That’s exactly the challenge NICE Actimize faced while operating their global-scale, event-driven financial crime detection platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS). NICE Actimize, a leading provider […]

Customers have access to models that are continuously getting better with each new generation bringing larger context windows, stronger reasoning, and lower token costs. Getting the strongest AI-powered security will come from tools that combine the most relevant models with deep knowledge of a customer’s specific environment. AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities (Preview) is built […]

Imagine preparing for your biggest sales event of the year, and you want to ensure your customer identity management service can handle the elevated traffic for carrying out application activities. For security teams, business leaders, and technologists managing identity infrastructure at scale, this scenario has been all too familiar. Whether you’re a CISO evaluating security […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the successful completion of our Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) and Three Domain Secure (3DS) certifications. As part of this renewal, we have expanded the scope to include three additional AWS services and one additional AWS Region: Newly added AWS services: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore […]

Today, we’re releasing the HIPAA Security Rule on AWS: Technical Safeguards Implementation and Readiness Guidance. This helps covered entities and business associates configure, implement, and evidence compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule Technical Safeguard requirements (45 CFR §164.312) when building healthcare workloads on AWS. The HIPAA Security Rule’s Technical Safeguards (§164.312) define five standards and […]

AI coding agents are part of the developer toolchain. Tools like Kiro and Claude Code generate features, tests, and code refactors from natural-language prompts. A single agent can open dozens of pull requests (PRs) across your repositories in an afternoon. That productivity comes with a trade-off: agents optimize for task completion at machine speed with […]