Tag: SOC

Today, I’m pleased to announce that we have completed our semiannual AWS Service Organization Control (SOC) assessments and the reports are available to NDA customers now. The AWS SOC program is an intense, period-in-time audit performed every six months. We have been releasing AWS services SOC Reports (or their SAS 70 predecessors) regularly since 2009, […]

May 22, 2019 update: We’ve removed a reference to the IT-Grundschutz Certification Workbook. AWS now recommends that customers refer to the Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalog (C5) instead. Learn more about C5 here: https://thinkwithwp.com/compliance/bsi-c5/ Every month, AWS Compliance fields thousands of questions about how to achieve and maintain compliance in the cloud. Among other things, […]

August 31, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) celebrated its one-year launch anniversary in November 2015, and […]

Today, I’m happy to announce the completion of another successful Service Organization Controls (SOC) assessment. The AWS SOC program is an intense, period-in-time audit performed every six months. We have been releasing SOC Reports (or their SAS 70 predecessors) regularly since 2009, and we have, over the years, gradually built in more controls and added […]

We are now in our sixth year of regularly publishing comprehensive independent audit reports attesting to our alignment with globally accepted security best practices. We have just completed our thorough and extensive semiannual audit and are happy to announce that Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and our newest region in Europe (Frankfurt) are now in-scope […]