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 …
Enabling security tooling is the starting point. Making it operational—where findings drive decisions, response times are measurable, and your security posture improves week over week—is where most organizations struggle. This blog post provides a phased maturity roadmap for organizations that have already enabled AWS Security Hub and …
Modern web applications require robust security controls to protect user data and application resources. Authentication and authorization are two fundamental pillars of application security that answer critical questions: Who are you? and What are you allowed to do? Implementing these controls correctly can be challenging for developers, especially when …
Amazon Cognito recently introduced high-throughput performance for demanding workloads, customer-managed keys for full control over data encryption at rest, and multi- Region replication for business continuity improvement. These capabilities were made possible through a next-generation storage infrastructure designed for extensibility and scale. To deliver this, we migrated hundreds of …
Reconstructing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack traffic used to mean combining data from multiple sources after the fact. AWS Shield Advanced attack flow logs change that—they capture traffic metadata during attacks so you can pinpoint sources, verify mitigations, and feed your existing analysis pipelines. Shield publishes logs …
You can use Amazon Cognito user pools to add sign-up and sign-in functionality to your web and mobile applications. You can authenticate users directly with Amazon Cognito managed accounts using passwords, passwordless flows, or custom authentication flows, or let users federate in through external identity providers (IdP) using SAML …
As you scale your use of Amazon Web Services (AWS), managing KMS keys becomes increasingly important. Whether you manage a handful of keys or thousands across multiple AWS accounts and AWS Regions, there’s often a need to audit key usage to help you meet compliance requirements, evaluate your …
Software as a service (SaaS) providers building AI-powered applications on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore often need to serve multiple tenants with distinct security requirements from a shared infrastructure. Some tenants require cross-account access from their own Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts, while others mandate that traffic stay within a private …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Spring 2026 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available. The reports cover 188 services over the 12-month period from April 1, 2025–March 31, 2026, giving customers a full year of assurance. These …
AWS Network Firewall now supports native attachment to AWS Transit Gateway. Customers commonly use Transit Gateway to route traffic from Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) networks to a centralized inspection VPC (a VPC dedicated to hosting firewall endpoints for traffic inspection) where their network firewall endpoints are deployed …
Network administrators face a persistent challenge: maintaining domain blocklists and allowlists that keep pace with the internet. New websites and services emerge daily, and keeping these lists current requires constant manual updates that leave gaps in coverage. This challenge intensifies when managing access to rapidly evolving categories like AI …
May 26, 2026: This post was originally published in July 2022. It has been updated to reflect current engagement options, new threat intelligence resources such as the Threat Technique Catalog for AWS (TTC), additional open-source tools, and the distinction between AWS CIRT support and the AWS Security Incident Response …
There have been multiple notable supply chain attacks using the npm Registry since September: Shai-Hulud, Chalk/Debug, one abusing tea.xyz tokens, and recently axios. Thanks to community efforts involving the Amazon Inspector team, the Open Source Security Foundation, and others, the affected packages were quickly flagged, which reduced …
We’re excited to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has completed the S&P Global Know Your Third Party (KY3P) assessment of its security posture. This assessment demonstrates our continued commitment to meet the heightened expectations of cloud service providers. Customers can now use the AWS KY3P assessment …
Managing identities and access across complex environments has become more critical than ever. AWS Directory Service for Managed Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, has added new capabilities to manage users and groups. Now, you can perform create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on …
Agents have agency: they adapt and find multiple ways to solve problems. This autonomy creates a fundamental security challenge: the large language model (LLM) at the heart of the agent is non-deterministic, and its decisions can’t be predicted or guaranteed in advance. It can hallucinate harmful actions with …
Our largest security services customers started the same way every customer does – with a click. They enabled Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, AWS WAF, and AWS Security Hub, experienced the benefits in real time, and evaluated with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing. No RFP. No six-month evaluation. No multi-year commitment up front …
The AWS Customer Incident Response Team works with customers to help them recover from active security incidents. As part of this work, the team often uncovers new or trending tactics used by various threat actors that take advantage of specific customer configurations and designs. Understanding these tactics can help …
Organizations often struggle to enforce security and compliance requirements consistently across their cloud infrastructure. In one environment, a workload might be deployed in an AWS Region that was never approved for that class of data. In another, a security group might allow broader access than intended. Required tags might …
TL;DR for busy executives The AWS AI Security Framework helps security leaders move fast and stay secure with AI. Security compounds from day 1 as workloads evolve from prototype to production to scale. Assess first. Request a no-cost SHIP engagement to baseline your posture and build a prioritized …
AWS IAM Identity Center provides a web-based access portal that gives your workforce a single place to view their AWS accounts and applications. With the recent launch of IAM Identity Center multi-Region replication, customers can replicate their IAM Identity Center instance across multiple AWS Regions to improve resilience and …
Migrating your TLS endpoints to Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) starts with understanding your current TLS endpoint inventory and posture. This post introduces the PQC Readiness Scanner — an automated tool that inventories your Application Load Balancer (ALB), Network Load Balancer (NLB), and Amazon API Gateway endpoints and continuously monitors their TLS …
This article guides you on how to use Amazon GuardDuty to identify and mitigate cryptocurrency mining threats in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. You’ll learn about the specialized detection capabilities of GuardDuty and best practices to build a multi-layered defense strategy that protects your infrastructure costs and …
The financial services industry (FSI) is using AI to transform how financial institutions serve their customers. AI solutions can help proactively manage portfolios, automatically refinance mortgages when rates decrease, and negotiate insurance premiums for customers. However, this adoption brings new governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) considerations that organizations need …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the successful completion of Payment Card Industry Personal Identification Number (PCI PIN) and PCI Point-to-Point Encryption (PCI P2PE) assessments for the AWS Payment Cryptography service. This assessment expands the AWS Payment Cryptography compliance portfolio, with AWS now validated as a component …