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AWS Security Blog This post shows you how to configure an AI model to perform structured, evidence-based vulnerability triage with the consistency of a seasoned security analyst. You’ll learn the design decisions behind five configuration sections that enforce structural verification…
AWS Security Blog Vulnerability scanners produce findings faster than manual triage can process them. Your developers ship more code with more dependencies, and the volume of candidate findings grows with it. Many findings a scanner produces are unlikely to be exploited. The ones that matter need…
AWS Security Blog If you’ve ever wondered whether your background qualifies you for a career in cybersecurity, you’re not alone — and you’re probably more prepared than you think. My name is Shannon Brazil, and I work in security communications at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I have been in the…
AWS Security Blog In cloud-centered environments, establishing trust between workloads is fundamental to securing machine-to-machine communication. Traditional approaches such as API keys, shared secrets, and static service account credentials weren’t designed for the scale and ephemeral nature of…
AWS Security Blog You’re building a data agent that lets business users ask questions about lakehouse data in natural language. You’ve already built governance policies that control who can access which datasets. The challenge is making the agent respect those rules without rebuilding them in your…
AWS Security Blog As AI models become more capable, they uncover more security vulnerabilities and identify increasingly sophisticated paths to exploit them, raising the bar for how quickly defenders must respond. Security teams now face more potential vulnerabilities than their existing processes…
AWS Security Blog On Saturday, October 24, 2026, we will conduct an exercise demonstrating that the AWS European Sovereign Cloud can operate without depending on any infrastructure outside of the European Union (EU). For several hours, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud will operate without a…
AWS Security Blog Read all about the latest AWS security features, compliance updates, and hands-on resources in our monthly digest posts. You’ll find expert blog posts, new service capabilities, code samples, and workshops. AWS Security Blog posts August brought 20 AWS Security Blog posts…
AWS Security Blog The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has this month issued a clear call to action through its Multi-factor authentication: Switch it on campaign, urging businesses, organisations, and individuals to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) across their online accounts. At…
AWS Security Blog Security teams investigating possible AI-related security events need guardrail intervention data alongside their existing security telemetry. When a guardrail identifies or blocks a prompt injection attempt or redacts sensitive data, that intervention carries additional…
AWS Security Blog European organizations can run AI workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) while keeping data within the European Union (EU) and meeting regulatory requirements. You can now run generative AI workloads on open weight models on Amazon Bedrock in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.…
AWS Security Blog The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a new, independent cloud for Europe, physically and logically separate from existing AWS Regions and operated within the European Union (EU). It provides the same services, features, and APIs as AWS commercial Regions, but runs as a distinct…
AWS Security Blog AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) has simplified session token size limits, giving you more room for your session policies and session tags. STS has replaced the packed policy size and the overall session token size limits with a single token size limit of 4,096 bytes. STS now…
AWS Security Blog Your consumer identity and access management (CIAM) system is the foundation of your customer experience. It’s how users sign in, access services, and engage with your applications. As your business scales across geographies, ensuring authentication is always available becomes a…
AWS Security Blog The principle of least privilege is straightforward to articulate but challenging to maintain at scale. When teams first deploy applications to AWS, they often grant broader permissions than strictly necessary; it’s faster to get things working, and the plan is always to tighten…
AWS Security Blog Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the publication of the AWS Security Reference Architecture (AWS SRA) Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) Deep Dive. This new guide extends the core AWS SRA to provide prescriptive, architecture-level guidance…
AWS Security Blog Security teams are starting to actively use AI for security work, including vulnerability triage, penetration testing, threat modeling, incident response, and code review. The promise is speed, but a security tool that moves fast and raises too many false alarms doesn’t save…
AWS Security Blog We’re pleased to confirm the successful completion of our annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outsourced Service Provider’s Audit Report (OSPAR) assessment on July 29, 2026, in line with the OSPAR version 2.0 framework. The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) established the…
AWS Security Blog In Part 1 of this guide, we examined two common incident scenarios: cross-account Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data deletion with ransomware implications, and cryptocurrency mining deployed through AWS CloudFormation using exposed AWS Management Console credentials.…
AWS Security Blog AWS CloudTrail logs contain the evidence you need when investigating suspicious activity in your AWS environment, but knowing which fields matter and how to interpret them can mean the difference between surface-level analysis and uncovering the full scope of an incident. This…