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 …

In Part 1, we explored the foundational strategy, including data classification frameworks and tagging approaches. In this post, we examine the technical implementation approach and key architectural patterns for building a governance framework. We explore governance controls across four implementation areas, building from foundational monitoring to advanced automation. Each …

Generative AI and machine learning workloads create massive amounts of data. Organizations need data governance to manage this growth and stay compliant. While data governance isn’t a new concept, recent studies highlight a concerning gap: a Gartner study of 300 IT executives revealed that only 60% of organizations …

A new version of AWS Security Hub, is now generally available, introducing new ways for organizations to manage and respond to security findings. The enhanced Security Hub helps you improve your organization’s security posture and simplify cloud security operations by centralizing security management across your Amazon Web Services …

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 …

Cyber threats are evolving faster than traditional security defense can respond; workloads with potential security issues are discovered by threat actors within 90 seconds, with exploitation attempts beginning within 3 minutes. Threat actors are quickly evolving their attack methodologies, resulting in new malware variants, exploit techniques, and evasion tactics …

Amazon GuardDuty and our automated security monitoring systems identified an ongoing cryptocurrency (crypto) mining campaign beginning on November 2, 2025. The operation uses compromised AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials to target Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). GuardDuty Extended Threat …

As we conclude 2025, Amazon Threat Intelligence is sharing insights about a years-long Russian state-sponsored campaign that represents a significant evolution in critical infrastructure targeting: a tactical pivot where what appear to be misconfigured customer network edge devices became the primary initial access vector, while vulnerability exploitation activity declined …

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 …

At Amazon Web Services, we’re committed to deeply understanding the evolving needs of both our customers and regulators, and rapidly adapting and innovating to meet them. The upcoming AWS European Sovereign Cloud will be a new independent cloud for Europe, designed to give public sector organizations and customers …

August 31, 2023: The date this blog post was first published. Over the past few decades, digital technologies have brought tremendous benefits to our societies, governments, businesses, and everyday lives. The increasing reliance on digital technologies comes with a broad responsibility for society, companies, and governments to ensure that …

Over the first half of this year, AWS WAF introduced new application-layer protections to address the growing trend of short-lived, high-throughput Layer 7 (L7) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. These protections are provided through the AWS WAF Anti-DDoS AWS Managed Rules (Anti-DDoS AMR) rule group. While the default …

Within hours of the public disclosure of CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell) on December 3, 2025, Amazon threat intelligence teams observed active exploitation attempts by multiple China state-nexus threat groups, including Earth Lamia and Jackpot Panda. This critical vulnerability in React Server Components has a maximum Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score …

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 …

In this post, we introduce the AWS provider for the Secrets Store CSI Driver, a new AWS Secrets Manager add-on for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that you can use to fetch secrets from Secrets Manager and parameters from AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store and mount them as …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Getting credentials for local development with AWS is now simpler and more secure. A new AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) command, aws login, lets you start building immediately after signing up for AWS without creating and managing long-term access keys. You use the same sign-in method you already …

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 Network Firewall now supports managed rules curated by AWS Partners—giving you pre-built threat intelligence and security controls that reduce the need to create and maintain your own rule sets. This new capability helps organizations strengthen their network security posture with continuously updated AWS partner managed protection. What …

The new threat landscape The line between cyber warfare and traditional kinetic operations is rapidly blurring. Recent investigations by Amazon threat intelligence teams have uncovered a new trend that they’re calling cyber-enabled kinetic targeting in which nation-state threat actors systematically use cyber operations to enable and enhance physical …

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 …