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 designed to trick users into authorizing attacker-controlled devices […]| AWS Security Blog
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’s sensitive data. Previously, AWS customers could […]| AWS Security Blog
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce its successful completion of the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (NHS DSPT) assessment audit and achieving a status of Standards Exceeded. The NHS DSPT is an assessment that allows organizations to measure their performance against the National Data Guardian’s 10 data security standards. All organizations that […]| Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the successful completion of our annual audit to renew our Payment Card Industry Three Domain Secure (PCI 3DS) certification. As part of this renewal, we have expanded the scope to include three additional AWS services and three additional AWS Regions: Newly added AWS services: Amazon Verified Permissions […]| AWS Security Blog
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 a unique set of challenges—not only […]| AWS Security Blog
August 1, 2025: This post was updated to clarify the security boundaries between containers and instances. July 9, 2025: This post was updated to clarify security boundaries in Amazon ECS. January 11, 2024: We’ve updated this post to include information about Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring for Amazon ECS clusters. If you’re looking to further enhance […]| Amazon Web Services
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), our APIs and service functionality are a promise to our customers, so we very rarely make breaking changes or remove functionality from production services. Customers use the AWS Cloud to build solutions for their customers, and when disruptive changes are made or functionality is removed, the downstream impacts can be […]| Amazon Web Services
July 30, 2025: This post has been republished to migrate the Amazon EC2 Oracle Transparent Data Encryption database encryption keystore to AWS CloudHSM using AWS CloudHSM Client SDK 5. Encrypting databases is crucial for protecting sensitive data, helping you to be aligned with security regulations and safeguarding against data loss. Oracle Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) […]| AWS Security Blog
Organizations are facing an increasing number of security threats, especially in the form of compromised user accounts. Manually monitoring and acting on suspicious activities is not only time-consuming but also prone to human error. The lack of automated responses to security incidents can lead to disastrous consequences, such as data breaches and financial loss. In […]| AWS Security Blog
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 230 Operational Risk Management (CPS 230), which […]| AWS Security Blog
July 29, 2025: This post was updated to correct command descriptions in the section Confirm PQ TLS negotiation. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), security is a top priority. Maintaining data confidentiality is a substantial component of operating environment security for AWS and our customers. Though not yet available, a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) could […]| AWS Security Blog
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 time, delaying responses to true positive threats […]| AWS Security Blog
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 and robust implementation. This new whitepaper helps cloud architects, […]| AWS Security Blog
The AWS Security Reference Architecture (AWS SRA) provides prescriptive guidance for deploying AWS security services in a multi-account environment. However, validating that your implementation aligns with these best practices can be challenging and time-consuming. Today, we’re announcing the open source release of SRA Verify, a security assessment tool that helps you assess your organization’s alignment […]| AWS Security Blog
French | German At Amazon Web Services (AWS), customer privacy and security are our top priority. We provide our customers with industry-leading privacy and security when they use the AWS Cloud anywhere in the world. In recent months, we’ve noticed an increase in inquiries about how we manage government requests for data. While many of […]| AWS Security Blog
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has completed its annual Collaborative Cloud Audit Group (CCAG) audit engagement with leading European financial institutions. At AWS, security remains our highest priority. As customers continue to embrace the scalability and flexibility of the cloud, we support them in evolving security, identity, and compliance into core business enablers. The AWS Compliance […]| Amazon Web Services
Customers around the globe—from governments and highly regulated industries to small businesses and start-ups—trust Amazon Web Services (AWS) with their most sensitive data and applications. At AWS, keeping our customers’ workloads secure and confidential, while helping them meet their privacy and data sovereignty requirements, is our highest priority. Our investments in security technologies and rigorous […]| Amazon Web Services
We’re excited to announce that AWS has completed the CyberVadis assessment of its security posture with the highest score (Mature) in all assessed areas. This demonstrates our continued commitment to meet the heightened expectations for cloud service providers. Customers can now use the 2025 AWS CyberVadis report and scorecard to reduce their supplier due-diligence burden. With […]| Amazon Web Services
At re:Inforce 2025, AWS unveiled an enhanced AWS Security Hub that transforms how organizations prioritize their most critical security issues and respond at scale to protect their cloud environments. In this blog post, we discuss how you can use Security Hub to prioritize these issues with exposure findings. The enhanced Security Hub now uses advanced […]| Amazon Web Services
At AWS, security is the top priority, and today we’re excited to share work we’ve been doing towards our goal to make AWS the safest place to run any workload. In earlier posts on this blog, we shared details of our internal active defense systems, like MadPot (global honeypots), Mithra (domain graph neural network), and Sonaris […]| Amazon Web Services
June 13, 2025: This post was updated to fix an incorrect link. Greetings from the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (AWS CIRT). AWS CIRT is a 24/7, specialized global Amazon Web Services (AWS) team that provides support to customers during active security events on the customer side of the AWS Shared Responsibility Model. We’re excited […]| Amazon Web Services
February 27, 2024: AWS has completed our global updates to deprecate support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 versions on our AWS service API endpoints across each of our AWS Regions and Availability Zones. January 17, 2024: Over 96% of AWS service API endpoints have ended support for TLS versions 1.0 and 1.1. Over the […]| Amazon Web Services
July 27, 2021: We’ve updated the link to the 2019 re:Invent session on this topic. Since it first launched over 10 years ago, the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) has helped customers build secure and scalable applications. The IMDS solved a big security headache for cloud users by providing access to temporary, frequently rotated […]| Amazon Web Services
June 20 2023: The wording in this post has been updated to avoid confusion around the use of wildcards in the principal element of an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) trust policy statement. November 3, 2022: We updated this post to fix some syntax errors in the policy statements and to add additional use […]| Amazon Web Services