Every day, millions of applications seamlessly connect users to the digital services they need through DNS queries. These queries act as an interface to the internet’s address book, translating familiar domain names like amazon.com into the IP addresses that computers use to appropriately route traffic. The DNS …

In the cloud security landscape, organizations benefit from aligning their controls and practices with industry standard frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK®, MITRE EngageTM, and MITRE D3FENDTM. MITRE frameworks are structured, openly accessible models that document threat actor behaviors to help organizations improve threat detection and response. Figure 1 …

On August 20, 2024, we announced the general availability of the new AWS CloudHSM instance type hsm2m.medium (hsm2). This new type comes with additional features compared to the previous AWS CloudHSM instance type, hsm1.medium (hsm1), such as support for Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 Level 3 …

In part 2 of this series, we showed you how to use Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks with natural language input to assist with threat hunting. This is done by using SageMaker Studio to automatically generate and run SQL queries on Amazon Athena with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Security Lake …

Organizations often need to securely share files with external parties over the internet. Allowing public access to a file transfer server exposes the organization to potential threats, such as malware-infected files uploaded by threat actors or inadvertently by genuine users. To mitigate this risk, companies can take steps to …

Note: This post was first published April 21, 2016. The updated version aligns with the latest version of AWS WAF (AWS WAF v2) and includes screenshots that reflect the changes in the AWS console experience. AWS WAF Classic has been deprecated and will be end-of-life (EOL) in September 2025 …

OpenID Foundation’s AuthZEN Working Group is currently drafting a new specification (version 1.0, draft 03 at the time of publication) and associated standard mechanisms, protocols, and formats to communicate authorization-related information between components involved in access control and authorization. Today, we’re publishing an open-source reference implementation …

AWS Network Firewall is a managed, stateful network firewall and intrusion detection and prevention service. It allows you to implement security rules for fine-grained control of your VPC network traffic. In this blog post, we discuss flow capture and flow flush, new features of AWS Network Firewall that enhance …

Today’s organizations rely heavily on secure and reliable communication channels and digital certificates play a crucial role in securing internal and external-facing infrastructure by establishing trust and enabling encrypted communication. While public certificates are commonly used to secure internet applications, many organizations prefer private certificates for internal resources …

IAM Roles Anywhere is a feature of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) that enables you to use X.509 certificates from your public key infrastructure (PKI) to request temporary Amazon Web Services (AWS) security credentials. By using IAM Roles Anywhere, your workloads, applications, containers, or devices that run …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides service reference information in JSON format to help you automate policy management workflows. With the service reference information, you can access available actions across AWS services from machine-readable files. The service reference information helps to address a key customer need: keeping up with the …

Containerization offers organizations significant benefits such as portability, scalability, and efficient resource utilization. However, managing access control and authorization for containerized workloads across diverse environments—from on-premises to multi-cloud setups—can be challenging. This blog post explores four architectural patterns that use Amazon Verified Permissions for application authorization in …

Many customers want to seamlessly integrate their on-premises Kubernetes workloads with AWS services, implement hybrid workloads, or migrate to AWS. Previously, a common approach involved creating long-term access keys, which posed security risks and is no longer recommended. While solutions such as Kubernetes secrets vault and third-party options exist …

In 2021, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced the AWS Secrets and Configuration Provider (ASCP) for the Kubernetes Secrets Store Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver, offering a reliable way to manage secrets in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Today, we’re excited to announce the integration of ASCP with …

AWS Network Firewall is a managed, stateful network firewall and intrusion protection service that you can use to implement firewall rules for fine grained control over your network traffic. With Network Firewall, you can filter traffic at the perimeter of your virtual private cloud (VPC); including filtering traffic going …

In part 1 of this blog series, we walked through the risks associated with using sensitive data as part of your generative AI application. This overview provided a baseline of the challenges of using sensitive data with a non-deterministic large language model (LLM) and how to mitigate these challenges …

January 30, 2025: This post was republished to make the instructions clearer and compatible with OCSF 1.1. Customers often require multiple log sources across their AWS environment to empower their teams to respond and investigate security events. In part one of this two-part blog post, I show you …

AWS Firewall Manager is a powerful tool that organizations can use to define common AWS WAF rules with centralized security policies. These policies specify which accounts and resources are in scope. Firewall Manager creates a web access control list (web ACL) that adheres to the organization’s policy requirements …

Generative AI applications have become powerful tools for creating human-like content, but they also introduce new security challenges, including prompt injections, excessive agency, and others. See the OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications to learn more about the unique security risks associated with generative AI applications. When …

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 Response Team (CIRT) and our automated security monitoring systems identified an increase in unusual encryption activity associated with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3 …

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 …