Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is essential for securing and establishing trust in digital communications. As you scale your digital operations, you’ll issue and revoke certificates. Revoking certificates is useful especially when employees leave, migrate to a new certificate authority hierarchy, meet compliance, and respond to security incidents. Use …

Although AWS Secrets Manager excels at managing the lifecycle of Amazon Web Services (AWS) secrets, managing credentials from third-party software providers presents unique challenges for organizations as they scale usage of their cloud applications. Organizations using multiple third-party services frequently develop different security approaches for each provider’s credentials …

Exposed long-term credentials continue to be the top entry point used by threat actors in security incidents observed by the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT). The exposure and subsequent use of long-term credentials or access keys by threat actors poses security risks in cloud environments. Additionally, poor key …

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 …

As generative AI became mainstream, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the Generative AI Security Scoping Matrix to help organizations understand and address the unique security challenges of foundation model (FM)-based applications. This framework has been adopted not only by AWS customers across the globe, but also widely referenced …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

As your organization grows, the amount of data you own and the number of data sources to store and process your data across multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts increases. Enforcing consistent access controls that restrict access to known networks might become a key part in protecting your organization …

Security teams often need to analyze potentially malicious files, binaries, or behaviors in a tightly controlled environment. While this has traditionally been done in on-premises sandboxes, the flexibility and scalability of AWS make it an attractive alternative for running such workloads. However, conducting malware analysis in the cloud brings …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released substantial updates to its AWS User Guide to Financial Services Regulations and Guidelines in Australia to help financial services customers in Australia accelerate their use of AWS. The updates reflect the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s (APRA) publication of the Prudential Standard CPS …

Organizations face mounting challenges in building and maintaining effective security incident response programs. Studies from IBM and Morning Consult show security teams face two major challenges: over 50 percent of security alerts go unaddressed because of resource constraints and alert fatigue, while false positives consume 30 percent of investigation …

We’re excited to announce the release of our latest whitepaper, AICPA SOC 2 Compliance Guide on AWS, which provides in-depth guidance on implementing and maintaining SOC 2-aligned controls using AWS services. Building and operating cloud-native services in alignment with the AICPA’s Trust Services Criteria requires thoughtful planning …

When it comes to AWS authentication, relying on long-term credentials, such as AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) access keys, introduces unnecessary risks; including potential credential exposure, unauthorized sharing, or theft. In this post, I present five common use cases where AWS customers traditionally use IAM access keys and …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can enable secure remote access to their cloud resources, supporting business operations with both speed and agility. As organizations embrace flexible work environments, employees can safely connect to AWS resources from various locations using different devices. AWS provides comprehensive security solutions that help organizations …

Protecting publicly facing web applications can be challenging due to the constantly evolving threat landscape. You must defend against sophisticated threats, including zero-day vulnerabilities, automated events, and changing compliance requirements. Navigating through consoles and selecting the protections best suited to your use case can be complicated, requiring not only …