AWS Security Blog

January 17, 2025: We updated this post to highlight the importance of using short-term credentials to mitigate the risk of unauthorized techniques such as the one detailed in this blog. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), the security of our customers’ data is our top priority, and it always will be. Recently, the AWS Customer Incident […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce a successful completion of the Health Data Hosting (Hébergeur de Données de Santé, HDS) certification audit, and renewal of the HDS certification for 24 AWS Regions. The Agence du Numérique en Santé (ANS), the French governmental agency for health, introduced the HDS certification to strengthen the security and protection of […]

In a previous blog post, we introduced the IAM Access Analyzer custom policy check feature, which allows you to validate your policies against custom rules. Now we’re taking a step further and bringing these policy checks directly into your development environment with the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code (VS Code). In this blog post, […]

AWS re:Invent 2024 was held in Las Vegas December 2–6, with over 54,000 attendees participating in more than 2,300 sessions and hands-on labs. The conference was a hub of innovation and learning hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. In this blog post, we cover on-demand sessions and major security, identity, and compliance announcements that […]

Amazon Cognito is a developer-centric and security-focused customer identity and access management (CIAM) service that simplifies the process of adding user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your mobile and web applications. Cognito is a highly available service that supports a range of use cases, from managing user authentication and authorization to enabling secure access […]

Securing an event of the magnitude of AWS re:Invent—the Amazon Web Services annual conference in Las Vegas—is no small feat. The most recent event, in December, operated on the scale of a small city, spanning seven venues over twelve miles and nearly seven million square feet across the bustling Las Vegas Strip. Keeping all 60,000 […]

To support our customers in securing their generative AI workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are excited to announce the launch of a new AWS Skill Builder course: Securing Generative AI on AWS. This comprehensive course is designed to help security professionals, architects, and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) engineers understand and implement […]

AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer simplifies inspecting unused access to guide you towards least privilege. You can use unused access findings to identify over-permissive access granted to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and users in your accounts or organization. From a delegated administrator account for IAM Access Analyzer, you can use the dashboard […]

Amazon Macie is a managed service that uses machine learning (ML) and deterministic pattern matching to help discover sensitive data that’s stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. Macie can detect sensitive data in many different formats, including commonly used compression and archive formats. However, Macie doesn’t support the discovery of sensitive data […]

We continue to expand the scope of our assurance programs at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and are pleased to announce the successful completion of our first ever Protected B High Value Assets (PBHVA) assessment with 149 assessed services and features. Completion of this assessment effective October 4, 2024, makes AWS the first cloud service provider […]