As AI and machine learning (AI/ML) become increasingly accessible through cloud service providers (CSPs) such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), new security issues can arise that customers need to address. AWS provides a variety of services for AI/ML use cases, and developers often interact with these services …

Every organization strives to empower teams to drive innovation while safeguarding their data and systems from unintended access. For organizations that have thousands of Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources spread across multiple accounts, organization-wide permissions guardrails can help maintain secure and compliant configurations. For example, some AWS services support …

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is pleased to launch key-level filtering for AWS KMS API usage in Amazon CloudWatch metrics, providing enhanced visibility to help customers improve their operational efficiency and aid in security and compliance risk management. AWS KMS currently publishes account-level AWS KMS API usage metrics …

As your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment grows, you might develop a need to grant cross-account access to resources. This could be for various reasons, such as enabling centralized operations across multiple AWS accounts, sharing resources across teams or projects within your organization, or integrating with third-party services. However …

AWS Network Firewall's automated domain lists feature enhances network security by analyzing HTTP and HTTPS traffic patterns, providing visibility into domain usage, and simplifying the creation and management of outbound traffic controls through domain-based allowlisting. [...]

If you’d like to skip directly to the detailed mapping between the CISA guidance and AWS security controls and best practices, visit our Github page. Implementing CISA’s enhanced visibility and hardening guidance for communications infrastructure In response to recent cybersecurity incidents attributed to actors from the People …

Today, I’m thrilled to announce that Amazon Redshift, a widely used, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse, is taking a significant step forward in strengthening the default security posture of our customers’ data warehouses. Some default security settings for newly created provisioned clusters, Amazon Redshift Serverless workgroups, and clusters …

Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors, analyzes, and processes Amazon Web Services (AWS) data sources and logs in your AWS environment. GuardDuty uses threat intelligence feeds, such as lists of malicious IP addresses and domains, file hashes, and machine learning (ML) models to identify suspicious …

AWS launched AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) in August 2011 with a single global endpoint (https://sts.amazonaws.com), hosted in the US East (N. Virginia) AWS Region. To reduce dependency on a single Region, STS launched AWS STS Regional endpoints (https://sts.{Region_identifier}.{partition_domain}) in February 2015 …

In a previous blog post, we introduced the IAM Access Analyzer custom policy check feature, which allows you to validate your policies against custom rules. Now we’re taking a step further and bringing these policy checks directly into your development environment with the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio …

Securing an event of the magnitude of AWS re:Invent—the Amazon Web Services annual conference in Las Vegas—is no small feat. The most recent event, in December, operated on the scale of a small city, spanning seven venues over twelve miles and nearly seven million square feet …

To support our customers in securing their generative AI workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are excited to announce the launch of a new AWS Skill Builder course: Securing Generative AI on AWS. This comprehensive course is designed to help security professionals, architects, and artificial intelligence and machine …

AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer simplifies inspecting unused access to guide you towards least privilege. You can use unused access findings to identify over-permissive access granted to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and users in your accounts or organization. From a delegated administrator account for …

Amazon Macie is a managed service that uses machine learning (ML) and deterministic pattern matching to help discover sensitive data that’s stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. Macie can detect sensitive data in many different formats, including commonly used compression and archive formats. However, Macie …

As organizations increasingly use generative AI to streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and gain a competitive edge in today’s fast-paced business environment, they seek mechanisms for measuring and monitoring their use of AI services. To help you navigate the process of adopting generative AI technologies and proactively measure your …

Amazon CloudWatch dashboards are customizable pages in the CloudWatch console that you can use to monitor your resources in a single view. This post focuses on deploying a CloudWatch dashboard that you can use to create a customizable monitoring solution for your AWS Network Firewall firewall. It’s designed …

We’re pleased to announce an enhanced version of the AWS Secrets Manager transform: AWS::SecretsManager-2024-09-16. This update is designed to simplify infrastructure management by reducing the need for manual security updates, bug fixes, and runtime upgrades. AWS Secrets Manager helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, API …

AWS Network Firewall is a managed service that provides a convenient way to deploy essential network protections for your virtual private clouds (VPCs). In this blog post, we discuss Geographic IP Filtering, a new feature of Network Firewall that you can use to filter traffic based on geographic location …

Managing Amazon Athena through identity federation allows you to manage authentication and authorization procedures centrally. Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service that provides a simplified and flexible way to analyze petabytes of data. In this blog post, we show you how you can use the Athena JDBC driver …

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports centralized management of root access for member accounts in AWS Organizations. With this capability, you can remove unnecessary root user credentials for your member accounts and automate some routine tasks that previously required root user credentials, such as restoring access to …

As generative AI models become increasingly integrated into business applications, it’s crucial to evaluate the potential security risks they introduce. At AWS re:Invent 2023, we presented on this topic, helping hundreds of customers maintain high-velocity decision-making for adopting new technologies securely. Customers who attended this session were …

Our mission at AWS Security Assurance Services is to assist with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. We work closely with AWS customers to answer their questions about compliance on the AWS Cloud, finding and implementing solutions, and optimizing their …

If you are new to AWS WAF and are interested in learning how to mitigate bot traffic by implementing Challenge actions in your AWS WAF custom rules, here is a basic, cost-effective way of using this action to help you reduce the impact of bot traffic in your applications …

October 28, 2024: We updated the text and figure for security objective 1 to show Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints—powered by AWS PrivateLink—enable customers to establish private connectivity to supported AWS services, enterprise services, and third-party services by using …

Welcome to the second post in our series on Security Guardians, a mechanism to distribute security ownership at Amazon Web Services (AWS) that trains, develops, and empowers builder teams to make security decisions about the software that they create. In the previous post, you learned the importance of building …