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October 18, 2022: This blog post was updated and the title was changed to reflect the updated info. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is a service that lets you efficiently provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources. Public certificates that you request through ACM […]

February 27, 2023: We’ve updated question and answer #3 on this blog post. October 7, 2022: This blog post has been updated to include a Frequently Asked Questions section at the end. September 30, 2022: This blog post has been updated to include the addition of the CN=Starfield Services Root Certificate Authority – G2,O=Starfield Technologies\, […]

October 13, 2022: This post had been updated with diagram of Figure 1: Outbound internet access through Network Firewall from Amazon EKS worker nodes modified. This blog post shows how to set up an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster such that the applications hosted on the cluster can have their outbound internet access […]

Note: This post includes links to third-party websites. AWS is not responsible for the content on those websites. Following the release of Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall, Amazon Web Services (AWS) published several blog posts to help you protect your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) DNS resolution, including How to Get Started with […]

If you use AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) as your identity source, you create and manage your users and groups manually in the IAM Identity Center console. However, you may prefer to automate this process to save time, spend less administrative effort, and to scale effectively as your organization grows. If […]

September 7, 2022: The post was updated to rephrase the brief of creating builder role with the builder policy attached as the permissions policy. Many organizations restrict permissions to create and manage AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resources to a group of privileged users or a central team. This post explains how you can […]

With AWS Security Hub you are able to manage your security posture in AWS, perform security best practice checks, aggregate alerts, and automate remediation. Now you are able to use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to subscribe to the new Security Hub Announcements topic to receive updates about new Security Hub services and features, […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to begin migration plans for National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 Revision 5. The NIST 800-53 framework is a regulatory standard that defines the minimum baseline of security controls for U.S. federal information systems. In 2020, NIST released Revision 5 of the framework to improve security standards […]

AWS Network Firewall helps make it easier for you to secure virtual networks at scale inside Amazon Web Services (AWS). Without having to worry about availability, scalability, or network performance, you can now deploy Network Firewall with the AWS Firewall Manager service. Firewall Manager allows administrators in your organization to apply network firewalls across accounts. […]

December 22, 2022: We are working on an update to address issues related to cloudformation stack deployment in regions other than us-east-1, and Lambda timeouts for customers with more than 100,000 findings. AWS Security Hub is a central dashboard for security, risk management, and compliance findings from AWS Audit Manager, AWS Firewall Manager, Amazon GuardDuty, […]