You can use third-party identity providers (IdPs) such as Okta, Ping, or OneLogin to federate with the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service using SAML 2.0, allowing your workforce to configure services by providing authorization access to the AWS Management Console or Command Line Interface (CLI). When …

In the AWS Security Profile series, I interview some of the humans who work in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security and help keep our customers safe and secure. This interview is with Philip Winstanley, a security engineer and AWS Guardian. The Guardians program identifies and develops security experts within …

Location data is subjected to heavy scrutiny by security experts. Knowing the current position of a person, vehicle, or asset can provide industries with many benefits, whether to understand where a current delivery is, how many people are inside a venue, or to optimize routing for a fleet of …

French version Spanish version We continue to listen to our customers, regulators, and stakeholders to understand their needs regarding audit, assurance, certification, and attestation programs at Amazon Web Services (AWS). We are pleased to announce that ISO/IEC 27001 certificates for AWS are now available in French and Spanish …

AWS Security Hub provides you with a consolidated view of your security posture in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and helps you check your environment against security standards and current AWS security recommendations. Although Security Hub has some similarities to security information and event management (SIEM) tools, it is not …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has published whitepapers, blog articles, and videos with prescriptive guidance to assist you in developing an enterprise strategy to mitigate risks associated with ransomware and other destructive events. We also announced a strategic partnership with CrowdStrike and Presidio where together we developed a Ransomware Risk …

Organizations who want to federate their external identity provider (IdP) to AWS will typically do it through AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO), AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), or use both. With AWS SSO, you configure federation once and manage access to all of your AWS accounts centrally. With …

March 16, 2022: The title and the opening section of this blog post has been updated. Federating your external identity provider (IdP) to AWS is a best practice. The simplest way to federate into AWS is with AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO). With AWS SSO, you configure federation once …

Gaining and maintaining customer trust is an ongoing commitment at Amazon Web Services (AWS). We are continuously expanding our compliance programs to provide customers with more tools and resources to be able to perform effective due diligence on AWS. We are excited to announce the availability of the AWS …

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we continue to listen to our customers, regulators, and stakeholders to understand their needs regarding audit, assurance, certification, and attestation programs. We are pleased to announce that Fall 2021 AWS SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3 reports are now available in Spanish. These …

In this post, we will show you how to deploy a solution into your Amazon Web Services (AWS) account that enables you to simply attach manual evidence to controls using AWS Audit Manager. Making evidence-collection as seamless as possible minimizes audit fatigue and helps you maintain a strong compliance …

This blog post shows you how to share encrypted Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets across accounts on a multi-tenant data lake. Our objective is to show scalability over a larger volume of accounts that can access the data lake, in a scenario where there is one central …

Joan Feigenbaum Amazon Scholar, AWS Cryptography Bill Horne Principal Product Manager, AWS Cryptography AWS Cryptography tools and services use a wide range of encryption and storage technologies that can help customers protect their data both at rest and in transit. In some instances, customers also require protection of their …

AWS is pleased to announce that 15 additional AWS services have achieved Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Joint Authorization Board (JAB). AWS is continually expanding the scope of our compliance programs to help customers use authorized services for sensitive and …

Introduction A few years ago at Sydney Summit, I had an excellent question from one of our attendees. She asked me to help her design a cost-effective, reliable, and not overcomplicated solution for protection against simple bots for her web-facing resources on Amazon Web Services (AWS). I remember the …

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), security, high performance, and strong encryption for everyone are top priorities for all our services. With these priorities in mind, less than a year after QUIC ratification in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), we are introducing support for the QUIC protocol which can …

As an AWS customer, if you use multiple Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) services/tasks to achieve better isolation, you often have the challenge of how to manage access to these containers. In such cases, using tags can enable you to categorize these services in different ways, such …

AWS is pleased to announce the publication of the AWS User Guide to Financial Services Regulations and Guidelines in Switzerland whitepaper and workbooks. This guide refers to certain rules applicable to financial institutions in Switzerland, including banks, insurance companies, stock exchanges, securities dealers, portfolio managers, trustees and other financial …

Given the speed of Amazon Web Services (AWS) innovation, it can sometimes be challenging to keep up with AWS Security service and feature launches. To help you stay current, here’s an overview of some of the most important 2021 AWS Security launches that security professionals should be aware …

This blog post demonstrates how you can secure Amazon API Gateway HTTP endpoints with JSON web token (JWT) authorizers. Amazon API Gateway helps developers create, publish, and maintain secure APIs at any scale, helping manage thousands of API calls. There are no minimum fees, and you only pay for …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the issuance of the new Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalogue (C5) Type 2 attestation report. We added 18 additional services and service features to the scope of the 2021 report. Germany’s national cybersecurity authority, Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik …

AWS Security Hub is a service that gives you aggregated visibility into your security and compliance posture across multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. By joining Security Hub with Amazon QuickSight—a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud—your senior leaders and …

AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to specify a rotation window for each secret stored. With this launch, you can continue to follow best practice of regularly rotating your secrets, while using the defined time window of your choice. With Secrets Manager, you can manage, retrieve, and rotate database …

Securing software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications is a top priority for all application architects and developers. Doing so in an environment shared by multiple tenants can be even more challenging. Identity frameworks and concepts can take time to understand, and forming tenant isolation in these environments requires deep understanding of different …

Background AWS Control Tower offers a straightforward way to set up and govern an Amazon Web Services (AWS) multi-account environment, following prescriptive best practices. AWS Control Tower orchestrates the capabilities of several other AWS services, including AWS Organizations, AWS Service Catalog, and AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO), to build …