AWS Security Blog

A big thank you to the attendees of the inaugural AWS re:Inforce conference for two successful days of cloud security learning. As you head home and look toward next steps for your organization (or if you weren’t able to attend and want to know what all the fuss was about), check out some of the […]

Controlling outbound communication from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to the internet is an important part of your overall preventive security controls. By limiting outbound traffic to certain trusted domains (called “whitelisting”) you help prevent instances from downloading malware, communicating with bot networks, or attacking internet hosts. It’s not practical to prevent all […]

AWS recently released the AWS Security Incident Response whitepaper, to help you understand the fundamentals of responding to security incidents within your cloud environment. The whitepaper reviews how to prepare your organization for detecting and responding to security incidents, explores the controls and capabilities at your disposal, provides topical examples, and outlines remediation methods that […]

In the weeks leading up to re:Inforce, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. How long have you been at AWS and what’s your current role? I’ve been at AWS […]

You can use AWS Organizations to centrally govern and manage multiple accounts as you scale your AWS workloads. With AWS Organizations, central security administrators can use service control policies (SCPs) to establish permission guardrails that all IAM users and roles in the organization’s accounts adhere to. When teams and projects are just getting started, administrators […]

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now offers the option for managing online root CAs and a full online PKI hierarchy. You can now host and manage your organization’s entire private certificate infrastructure in AWS. Supporting a full hierarchy expands AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority capabilities. CA administrators can use ACM […]

If you’re an AWS Directory Service administrator, you can reset your directory users’ passwords from the AWS console or the CLI when their passwords expire. However, you can improve your efficiency by reducing the number of requests for password resets. You can also help improve the security of your organization by having your users proactively […]

The first annual re:Inforce conference is one week away and with two full days of security, identity, and compliance learning ahead, I’m looking forward to the community building opportunities (such as Capture the Flag) and the hundreds of sessions that dive deep into how AWS services can help keep businesses secure in the cloud. The […]

When organizations first adopt AWS, they have to make many decisions that will lay the foundation for their future footprint in the cloud. Part of this includes making decisions about the number of AWS accounts you choose to operate, but another fundamental task is constructing practical access control policies so that your application teams can’t […]

In the weeks leading up to re:Inforce, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. You don’t work at AWS, but you do have deep experience with AWS Services. Can you talk about […]