AWS Security Blog

Category: Learning Levels

Securing Amazon Bedrock API keys: Best practices for implementation and management

Recently, AWS released Amazon Bedrock API keys to make calls to the Amazon Bedrock API. In this post, we provide practical security guidance on effectively implementing, monitoring, and managing this new option for accessing Amazon Bedrock to help you build a comprehensive strategy for securing these keys. We also provide guidance on the larger family […]

Protect your generative AI applications against encoding-based attacks with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails provides configurable safeguards to help you safely build generative AI applications at scale. It offers integrated safety and privacy protections that work across multiple foundation models (FMs), including models available in Amazon Bedrock and models hosted outside Amazon Bedrock from other providers. Bedrock Guardrails currently offers six key safeguards to help prevent […]

Securing AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity

By using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, developers can build agentic workloads using a comprehensive set of enterprise-grade services that help quickly and securely deploy and operate AI agents at scale using any framework and model, hosted on Amazon Bedrock or elsewhere. AgentCore services are modular and composable, allowing them to be used together or independently. To […]

Example default hosted UI with several login providers enabled

Should I use managed login or create a custom UI in Amazon Cognito?

October 8, 2025: This blog post has been updated to include the Amazon Cognito managed login experience. The managed login experience has an updated look, additional features, and enhanced customization options. September 8, 2023: It’s important to know that if you activate user sign-up in your user pool, anyone on the internet can sign up […]

New AWS whitepaper: Security Overview of Amazon EKS Auto Mode

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new whitepaper: Security Overview of Amazon EKS Auto Mode, providing customers with an in-depth look at the architecture, built-in security features, and capabilities of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode. The whitepaper covers the core security principles of Amazon EKS Auto Mode, highlighting its unique approach […]

Defending against supply chain attacks like Chalk/Debug and the Shai-Hulud worm

Building on top of open source packages can help accelerate development. By using common libraries and modules from npm, PyPI, Maven Central, NuGet, and others, teams can focus on writing code that is unique to their situation. These open source package registries host millions of packages that are integrated into thousands of programs daily. Unfortunately, […]

Defending LLM applications against Unicode character smuggling

When interacting with AI applications, even seemingly innocent elements—such as Unicode characters—can have significant implications for security and data integrity. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we continuously evaluate and address emerging threats across aspects of AI systems. In this blog post, we explore Unicode tag blocks, a specific range of characters spanning from U+E0000 to […]

Build secure network architectures for generative AI applications using AWS services

As generative AI becomes foundational across industries—powering everything from conversational agents to real-time media synthesis—it simultaneously creates new opportunities for bad actors to exploit. The complex architectures behind generative AI applications expose a large surface area including public-facing APIs, inference services, custom web applications, and integrations with cloud infrastructure. These systems are not immune to […]

How to develop an AWS Security Hub POC

The enhanced AWS Security Hub (currently in public preview) prioritizes your critical security issues and helps you respond at scale to protect your environment. It detects critical issues by correlating and enriching signals into actionable insights, enabling streamlined response. You can use these capabilities to gain visibility across your cloud environment through centralized management in […]

Enabling AI adoption at scale through enterprise risk management framework – Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, we explored the fundamental risks and governance considerations. In this part, we examine practical strategies for adapting your enterprise risk management framework (ERMF) to harness generative AI’s power while maintaining robust controls. This part covers: Adapting your ERMF for the cloud Adapting your ERMF for generative AI Sustainable Risk […]