In this post, we show how to configure customer trust stores to work with public certificates issued through AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). Organizations can encounter challenges when configuring trust stores for ACM certificates and incorrect trust store configuration can lead to SSL/TLS errors and application downtime. While most …

October 8, 2025: This blog post has been updated to include the Amazon Cognito managed login experience. The managed login experience has an updated look, additional features, and enhanced customization options. September 8, 2023: It’s important to know that if you activate user sign-up in your user pool …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new whitepaper: Security Overview of Amazon EKS Auto Mode, providing customers with an in-depth look at the architecture, built-in security features, and capabilities of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode. The whitepaper covers the core security principles of Amazon EKS …

Building on top of open source packages can help accelerate development. By using common libraries and modules from npm, PyPI, Maven Central, NuGet, and others, teams can focus on writing code that is unique to their situation. These open source package registries host millions of packages that are integrated …

When interacting with AI applications, even seemingly innocent elements—such as Unicode characters—can have significant implications for security and data integrity. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we continuously evaluate and address emerging threats across aspects of AI systems. In this blog post, we explore Unicode tag blocks, a …

As generative AI becomes foundational across industries—powering everything from conversational agents to real-time media synthesis—it simultaneously creates new opportunities for bad actors to exploit. The complex architectures behind generative AI applications expose a large surface area including public-facing APIs, inference services, custom web applications, and integrations with …

The enhanced AWS Security Hub (currently in public preview) prioritizes your critical security issues and helps you respond at scale to protect your environment. It detects critical issues by correlating and enriching signals into actionable insights, enabling streamlined response. You can use these capabilities to gain visibility across your …

In Part 1 of this series, we explored the fundamental risks and governance considerations. In this part, we examine practical strategies for adapting your enterprise risk management framework (ERMF) to harness generative AI’s power while maintaining robust controls. This part covers: Adapting your ERMF for the cloud Adapting …

According to BCG research, 84% of executives view responsible AI as a top management responsibility, yet only 25% of them have programs that fully address it. Responsible AI can be achieved through effective governance, and with the rapid adoption of generative AI, this governance has become a business imperative …

Security threats demand swift action, which is why AWS Security Incident Response delivers AWS-native protection that can immediately strengthen your security posture. This comprehensive solution combines automated triage and evaluation logic with your security perimeter metadata to identify critical issues, seamlessly bringing in human expertise when needed. When Security …

Security and governance teams across all environments face a common challenge: translating abstract security and governance requirements into a concrete, integrated control framework. AWS services provide capabilities that organizations can use to implement controls across multiple layers of their architecture—from infrastructure provisioning to runtime monitoring. Many organizations deploy …

Security teams must efficiently validate and document exceptions to AWS Security Hub findings, while maintaining proper governance. Enterprise security teams need to make sure that exceptions to security best practices are properly validated and documented, while development teams need a streamlined process for implementing and verifying compensating controls. In …

October 1, 2025: This post was updated to reflect the new name of Security Hub, which is AWS Security Hub CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management). Security teams must efficiently validate and document exceptions to AWS Security Hub (Cloud Security Posture Management, previously known as Security Hub) findings, while maintaining …

Amazon Web Service (AWS) recently announced that AWS Organizations now offers full AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy language support for service control policies (SCPs). With this feature, you can use conditions, individual resource Amazon Resource Names (ARNs), and the NotAction element with Allow statements. Additionally, you can …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Summer 2025 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1 report is now available. The report covers 183 services over the 12-month period from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, giving customers a full year of assurance. The reports demonstrate …

Organizations are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) to provide new types of customer interactions through generative AI-powered chatbots, virtual assistants, and intelligent search capabilities. To enhance these interactions, organizations are using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to incorporate proprietary data, industry-specific knowledge, and internal documentation to provide more accurate, contextual …

AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that filters and controls network traffic in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Unlike traditional network controls such as security groups or network access control lists (NACLs), Network Firewall can inspect and make decisions based on information from higher layers of …

I joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a principal security engineer 3 years ago and my first project was leading security for PL/Rust on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). This is an extension that lets you write custom functions for PostgreSQL in Rust, which are then compiled …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) successfully completed an onboarding audit with no findings for ISO 9001:2015, 27001:2022, 27017:2015, 27018:2019, 27701:2019, 20000-1:2018, and 22301:2019, and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) STAR Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0. EY CertifyPoint auditors conducted the audit and reissued …

Elastic Load Balancing simplifies authentication by offloading it to OpenID Connect (OIDC) compatible identity providers (IdPs). This lets builders focus on application logic while using robust identity management. OIDC client secrets are confidential credentials used in OAuth 2.0 and OIDC protocols for authenticating clients (applications). However, manual management …

In our previous blog post (Part 1 of our key replication series), Automatically replicate your card payment keys across AWS Regions, we explored an event-driven, serverless architecture using AWS PrivateLink to securely replicate card payment keys across AWS Regions. That solution demonstrated how to build a custom replication framework …

We’re pleased to announce the completion of our annual AWS Outsourced Service Provider’s Audit Report (OSPAR) audit cycle on August 7, 2025, based on the newly enhanced version 2.0 guidelines (OSPAR v2.0). AWS is the first global cloud service provider in Singapore to obtain the …

Organizations are innovating and growing their cloud presence to deliver better customer experiences and drive business value. To support and protect this growth, organizations can use Amazon GuardDuty, a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior across your AWS environment. GuardDuty uses artificial intelligence …

When modernizing applications, customers in regulated industries like government, financial, and research face a critical challenge: how to transform their systems while meeting strict digital sovereignty and security compliance requirements. A common misconception tied to this is that data must be moved to an AWS Region to fully use …

Amazon’s threat intelligence team has identified and disrupted a watering hole campaign conducted by APT29 (also known as Midnight Blizzard), a threat actor associated with Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Our investigation uncovered an opportunistic watering hole campaign using compromised websites to redirect visitors to malicious infrastructure …