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Tag: Whitepapers

New Twitter Handle Now Live: @AWSSecurityInfo

Today, we launched a new Twitter handle: @AWSSecurityInfo. The purpose of this new handle is to share security bulletins, security whitepapers, compliance news and information, and other AWS security-related and compliance-related information. The scope of this handle is broader than that of @AWSIdentity, which focuses primarily on Security Blog posts. However, feel free to follow both handles! […]

FERPA Compliance in the AWS Cloud

July 24, 2020: The whitepaper Auditing Security Checklist in the list of additional resources has been replaced by a Cloud Audit Academy course.   The security of personally identifiable information (PII) continues to be an important topic among all sectors, and education is no exception. Covered entities subject to FERPA are turning to cloud computing […]

AWS Architecture and Security Recommendations for FedRAMP Compliance

Some of the most common compliance-related requests we receive from our customers are for reference architecture, a template for how to build your infrastructure in the cloud. These requests indicate how some people learn new concepts: reference architecture visualizations can help to clarify subject matter. In order to clarify how you can use AWS functionality […]

AWS Frankfurt Region Opens—AWS Highlights European Data Protection

With the AWS Frankfurt Region officially launched, we’d like to share European and data protection–specific information we’ve published to assist AWS customers who want to store content containing personal data. This information can be found in the newly released Whitepaper on EU Data Protection, a key resource available to customers who want to use AWS […]