Amazon Web Services (AWS) recommends using AWS IAM Identity Center to provide your workforce access to AWS managed applications—such as Amazon Q Developer—and AWS accounts. Today, we announced IAM Identity Center support for IPv6. To learn more about the advantages of IPv6, visit the IPv6 product page …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the successful completion of Payment Card Industry Personal Identification Number (PCI PIN) audit for the AWS CloudHSM service. With CloudHSM, you can manage and access your keys on FIPS 140-3 Level 3 validated hardware, protected with customer-owned, single-tenant hardware security module …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the successful completion of Payment Card Industry Personal Identification Number (PCI PIN) audit for the AWS Payment Cryptography service. With AWS Payment Cryptography, your payment processing applications can use payment hardware security modules (HSMs) that are PCI PIN Transaction Security (PTS …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce a successful completion of the 2025 Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (C5) attestation cycle with 183 services in scope. This alignment with C5 requirements demonstrates our ongoing commitment to adhere to the heightened expectations for cloud service providers. AWS customers in …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the expansion of GSMA Security Accreditation Scheme for Subscription Management (SAS-SM) certification to four new AWS Regions: US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Additionally, the AWS US East (Ohio) and Europe (Paris) Regions have been …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Fall 2025 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available. The reports cover 185 services over the 12-month period from October 1, 2024–September 30, 2025, giving customers a full year of assurance. These …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that two additional AWS services and one additional AWS Region have been added to the scope of our Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification: Newly added services: AWS Security Incident Response AWS Transform Newly added AWS Region: Asia …
For the third year in a row, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is named as a Leader in the Information Services Group (ISG) Provider LensTM Quadrant report for Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure Services (EU), published on January 9, 2026. ISG is a leading global technology research, analyst, and advisory firm that …
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we continue to invest in and deliver digital sovereignty solutions to help customers meet their most sensitive workload requirements. To address the regulatory and digital sovereignty needs of public sector and regulated industry customers, we launched AWS Dedicated Local Zones in 2023, with the …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is introducing guidelines for network scanning of customer workloads. By following these guidelines, conforming scanners will collect more accurate data, minimize abuse reports, and help improve the security of the internet for everyone. Network scanning is a practice in modern IT environments that can be …
If you’ve ever spent hours manually digging through AWS CloudTrail logs, checking AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions, and piecing together the timeline of a security event, you understand the time investment required for incident investigation. Today, we’re excited to announce the addition of AI-powered investigation …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …