Many teams now deploy AI agents that pull from Amazon DynamoDB tables, document repositories, software as a service (SaaS) platforms, and internal knowledge bases to answer questions and automate workflows. A key risk in these deployments is that the agent has no awareness of who’s asking, so it …

Understanding what AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies can control helps you build better security controls and avoid spending time on approaches that won’t work. You’ve likely encountered questions like: Can I use AWS Organizations service control policies (SCPs) to prevent the creation of security groups …

As your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment grows, you might develop a need to grant cross-account access to resources. This could be for various reasons, such as enabling centralized operations across multiple AWS accounts, sharing resources across teams or projects within your organization, or integrating with third-party services. However …

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 …