We’re pleased to announce the availability of the latest sample security baseline from Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA)—the Universal Configuration. Developed from years of field experience with highly regulated customers including governments across the world, and in consultation with AWS Partners and industry experts, the Universal …

Transfer across AWS Cloud partitions. Different identity planes. Long-lived IAM user credentials. As an enterprise customer, you might need to bring together security, operational, and compliance data from multiple AWS partitions. Creating a holistic view of these types of data is critical to support operations and applications but understanding …

Certificates and the hierarchy of trust they create are the backbone of a secure infrastructure. AWS Private Certificate Authority is a highly available certificate authority (CA) that you can use to create private CA hierarchies, secure your applications and devices with private certificates, and manage certificate lifecycles. A certificate …

Getting credentials for local development with AWS is now simpler and more secure. A new AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) command, aws login, lets you start building immediately after signing up for AWS without creating and managing long-term access keys. You use the same sign-in method you already …

Amazon Web Services has been designated as a critical third-party provider (CTPP) by the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) under the European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). This designation is a key milestone in the EU’s implementation of DORA, which took effect in January 2025 and aims …

AWS Network Firewall now supports managed rules curated by AWS Partners—giving you pre-built threat intelligence and security controls that reduce the need to create and maintain your own rule sets. This new capability helps organizations strengthen their network security posture with continuously updated AWS partner managed protection. What …

The new threat landscape The line between cyber warfare and traditional kinetic operations is rapidly blurring. Recent investigations by Amazon threat intelligence teams have uncovered a new trend that they’re calling cyber-enabled kinetic targeting in which nation-state threat actors systematically use cyber operations to enable and enhance physical …

Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service have launched a new dashboard that simplifies the analysis of AWS Network Firewall logs. Previously, in our blog post How to analyze AWS Network Firewall logs using Amazon OpenSearch Service we demonstrated the required services and steps to create an OpenSearch dashboard. The …

AWS Systems Manager Session Manager is a fully managed service that provides secure, interactive, one-click access to your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, edge devices, and virtual machines (VMs) through a browser-based shell or AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), without requiring open inbound ports, bastion hosts …

Following our recent announcement of ML-DSA support in AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), we just introduced post-quantum ML-DSA signature support in AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA). Customers can use AWS Private CA to create and manage their own private public key infrastructure (PKI) hierarchies. Through this …

AWS re:Invent 2025, the premier cloud computing conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), returns to Las Vegas, Nevada, December 1–5, 2025. At AWS, security is our top priority, and re:Invent 2025 reflects this commitment with our most comprehensive security track to date. With more than …

Amazon Inspector security researchers have identified and reported over 150,000 packages linked to a coordinated tea.xyz token farming campaign in the npm registry. This is one of the largest package flooding incidents in open source registry history, and represents a defining moment in supply chain security, far …

Today, we’re excited to announce the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) zero operator access posture. Because security is our top priority at Amazon Web Services (AWS), we designed an operational architecture to meet the data privacy posture our regulated and most stringent customers want in a managed …

The Amazon threat intelligence team has identified an advanced threat actor exploiting previously undisclosed zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) and Citrix systems. The campaign used custom malware and demonstrated access to multiple undisclosed vulnerabilities. This discovery highlights the trend of threat actors focusing on critical identity …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce that the latest version of Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) report (2025 H1) is now available through AWS Artifact. An independent Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) certified IRAP assessor completed the IRAP assessment of AWS in September 2025. The new IRAP …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently released a new whitepaper, Overview of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, available in English, German, and French, detailing the planned design and goals of this new infrastructure. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a new, independent cloud for Europe, designed to help public sector …

Application authorization is a critical component of modern software systems, determining what actions users can perform on specific resources. Many organizations have adopted Open Policy Agent (OPA) with its Rego policy language to implement fine-grained authorization controls across their applications and infrastructure. While OPA has proven effective for policy-as-code …

The emergence of AI as a transformative force is changing the way organizations approach security. While AI technologies can augment human expertise and increase the efficiency of security operations, they also introduce risks ranging from lower technical barriers for threat actors to inaccurate outputs. As AI adoption accelerates alongside …

When building applications on AWS, you often need to manage various types of configuration data, including sensitive values such as API tokens or database credentials. From environment variables and API keys to passwords and endpoints, this configuration data helps determine application behavior. AWS offers managed services that you can …

AWS Secrets Manager is a service that you can use to manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, application credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycles. You can also use Secrets Manager to replace hard-coded credentials in application source code with runtime calls to retrieve credentials dynamically when …

AWS re:Invent 2025, the premier cloud computing conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), returns to Las Vegas, Nevada, from December 1–5, 2025. This flagship event brings together the global cloud community for an immersive week of learning, collaboration, and innovation across multiple venues. Whether you’re …

Recently, AWS released Amazon Bedrock API keys to make calls to the Amazon Bedrock API. In this post, we provide practical security guidance on effectively implementing, monitoring, and managing this new option for accessing Amazon Bedrock to help you build a comprehensive strategy for securing these keys. We also …

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails provides configurable safeguards to help you safely build generative AI applications at scale. It offers integrated safety and privacy protections that work across multiple foundation models (FMs), including models available in Amazon Bedrock and models hosted outside Amazon Bedrock from other providers. Bedrock Guardrails currently offers …

Amazon Bedrock has simplified how you access foundation models, streamlining the integration of AI capabilities into your applications. Here’s what’s changed and how to maintain control over model access in your organization. What’s new: Simplified model access Amazon Bedrock now provides automatic access to the serverless …

By using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, developers can build agentic workloads using a comprehensive set of enterprise-grade services that help quickly and securely deploy and operate AI agents at scale using any framework and model, hosted on Amazon Bedrock or elsewhere. AgentCore services are modular and composable, allowing them to …