What the March 2026 Threat Technique Catalog update means for your AWS environment
The AWS Customer Incident Response Team (AWS CIRT) regularly encounters patterns that repeat across their engagements when helping customers respond to secur...
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Access control with IAM Identity Center session tags
As organizations expand their Amazon Web Services (AWS) footprint, managing secure, scalable, and cost-efficient access across multiple accounts becomes incr...
Optimize security operations through an AWS Security Hub POC
April 27, 2026: This post was first published in September 2025 when the enhanced AWS Security Hub was in public preview. It has since been updated to reflec...
Can I do that with policy? Understanding the AWS Service Authorization Reference
Understanding what AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies can control helps you build better security controls and avoid spending time on approach...
Protecting your secrets from tomorrow’s quantum risks
As outlined in the AWS post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration plan, addressing the risk of harvest now, decrypt later (HNDL) attack is an important part o...
A technical walkthrough of multicloud full-stack security using AWS Security Hub Extended
Building on our recent announcement of AWS Security Hub Extended —our full-stack enterprise security offering — we want to show you how we’re simplifying sec...
Winter 2025 SOC 1 report is now available with 184 services in scope
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Winter 2025 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1 report is now available. The report covers 184...
ZDI-26-245: (0Day) aws-mcp-server AWS CLI Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of aws-mcp-server. Authentication is not required to exploit t...
Project Glasswing and the Next Challenge for Defenders: Turning Faster Discovery into Faster Action
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing has sparked plenty of discussion about what AI might soon do for vulnerability discovery, but the more useful question for most...
How to clone an AWS CloudHSM cluster across Regions
Important: As of January 1, 2025, Client SDK 3 tools (CMU and KMU) are no longer supported. This guide has been updated to use Client SDK 5 commands exclusiv...
NIST Drops NVD Enrichment for Pre-March 2026 Vulnerabilities
NIST’s National Vulnerability Database will now prioritize enriching new and exploited flaws to address the record growth of reported CVEs
Secure AI agent access patterns to AWS resources using Model Context Protocol
AI agents and coding assistants interact with AWS resources through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Unlike traditional applications with deterministic code...
Cracks in the Bedrock: Agent God Mode
Unit 42 reveals "Agent God Mode" in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Broad IAM permissions lead to privilege escalation and data exfiltration risks.
A framework for securely collecting forensic artifacts into S3 buckets
When customers experience a security incident, they need to acquire forensic artifacts to identify root cause, extract indicators of compromise (IoCs), and v...
Cracks in the Bedrock: Escaping the AWS AgentCore Sandbox
Unit 42 uncovers critical vulnerabilities in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's sandbox, demonstrating DNS tunneling and credential exposure. The post Cracks in the ...
Building AI defenses at scale: Before the threats emerge
At AWS, we’ve spent decades developing processes and tools that enable us to defend millions of customers simultaneously, wherever they operate around the wo...
GrafanaGhost Exploit Bypasses AI Guardrails for Silent Data Exfiltration
GrafanaGhost chains AI prompt injection and URL flaws to exfiltrate sensitive Grafana data
Introducing the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS Universal Configuration and LZA Compliance Workbook
November 20, 2025: Original publication date of this post. This post has been updated to reference the most recent version of the LZA Compliance Workbook pub...
Maryland Man Charged Over $53m Uranium Finance Crypto Hack
Maryland man accused of $53m Uranium Finance hack, exploited smart contract flaws, laundered funds
European Commission Confirms Cloud Data Breach
The European Commission has revealed details of a data breach impacting its AWS infrastructure