AWS category
Security, Identity, & Compliance
Generated July 9, 2026
Identity, detection, protection, audit, encryption, and compliance services.
Security, Identity, & Compliance services
27 entries| Service | Category | Production use | Before production | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
On-demand access to AWS compliance reports | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Provision, manage, and deploy SSL/TLS certificates | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Find the AWS security, identity, and governance services and tools that fit your needs | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Identity management for your apps | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Set up and run Microsoft Active Directory with AWS services | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Managed threat detection service | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Securely manage access to services and resources with IAM | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Define users, roles, service permissions, and least-privilege access boundaries. | Use roles over users, MFA, permission boundaries, access analyzer, credential rotation, and no long-lived secrets in apps. | Docs |
Audit your AWS usage to simplify how you assess risk and compliance | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Store hundreds of millions of application-specific objects | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Investigate potential security issues | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Deploy network security across your VPCs with just a few clicks | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Move sensitive workloads into the cloud | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Manage single sign-on access to AWS accounts and apps | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Automated and continual vulnerability management at scale | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Discover and protect your sensitive data at scale | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Deploy network security across your Amazon VPCs with just a few clicks | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Fully managed payment cryptography service | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Simple, secure service to share AWS resources | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Rotate, manage, and retrieve secrets | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Store and rotate database credentials, API keys, and app secrets. | Use automatic rotation where possible, tight IAM, KMS encryption, no plaintext env files, and alert on access anomalies. | Docs |
Create private certificates to identify resources and protect data | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Security documentation by category | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Unified security and compliance center | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Helps you respond to and receive CIRT assistance for security events | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Automatically centralize your security data with a few clicks | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
DDoS protection | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Permissions management and authorization for custom applications | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Use before and during deployment to protect identities, applications, data, networks, and compliance posture. | Enable MFA/SSO, least privilege, threat detection, encryption, vulnerability management, WAF, audit logs, incident response, and compliance evidence. | Docs |
Filter malicious web traffic | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Protect public web apps and APIs from common web attacks and abusive traffic. | Attach to CloudFront/ALB/API Gateway, use managed rules, rate limits, logging, test mode, and tuning for false positives. | Docs |
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