Not only is security built into every layer of the AWS infrastructure, but also into each of the services available on that infrastructure. AWS services are architected to work efficiently and securely with all AWS networks and platforms. Each service provides extensive security features to enable you to protect sensitive data and applications.

Amazon Web Services offers a variety of managed services to use with your applications, including services that provide application streaming, queueing, push notification, email delivery, search, and transcoding. [gra

Amazon Web Services provides cloud-based analytics services to help you process and analyze any volume of data, whether your need is for managed Hadoop clusters, real-time streaming data, petabyte scale data warehousing, or orchestration.

The AWS network has been architected to permit you to select the level of security and resiliency appropriate for your workload. To enable you to build geographically dispersed, fault-tolerant web architectures with cloud resources, AWS has implemented a world-class network infrastructure that is carefully monitored and managed.

Organizational policies, or industry or government regulations, might require the use of encryption at rest to protect your data. The flexible nature of Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows you to choose from a variety of different options that meet your needs. This whitepaper provides an overview of different methods for encrypting your data at rest available today.

AWS and its customers share control over the IT environment, both parties have responsibility for managing the IT environment. AWS’ part in this shared responsibility includes providing its services on a highly secure and controlled platform and providing a wide array of security features customers can use. The customers’ responsibility includes configuring their IT environments in a secure and controlled […]

This paper briefly outlines how companies can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)-compliant applications. We will focus on the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules for protecting Protected Health Information (PHI), how to use AWS to encrypt data in transit and at rest, and how AWS features can be used to meet HIPAA […]

The logging and monitoring of API calls are key components in security and operational best practices, as well as requirements for industry and regulatory compliance. AWS CloudTrail is a web service that records API calls to supported AWS services in your AWS account and delivers a log file to your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. AWS CloudTrail alleviates […]