Articles By: AWS

Overview of AWS Security – Storage Services

Amazon Web Services provides low-cost data storage with high durability and availability. AWS offers storage choices for backup, archiving, and disaster recovery, as well as block and object storage.

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Overview of AWS Security – Database Services

Amazon Web Services provides a number of database solutions for developers and businesses— from managed relational and NoSQL database services, to in-memory caching as a service and petabyte-scale data-warehouse service.

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Overview of AWS Security – Compute Services

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.

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Overview of AWS Security – Application Services

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

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Overview of AWS Security – Analytics, Mobile and Application Services

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.

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Overview of AWS Security – Network Security

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.

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Encrypting Data at Rest

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.

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Architecting for HIPAA Security and Compliance on Amazon Web Services

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 […]

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