As data breaches become more sophisticated and widespread, organizations must secure business systems and customer data. Businesses want to ensure maximum data protection, and there are various regulatory requirements that organizations have to comply with. These requirements include HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), SOC2 (Service Organization Control 2), NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) 800-171 (, ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 27001, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), and more.

Security and Compliance is essential for all organizations that handle crucial data and information. Organizations building and deploying their workloads in AWS (Amazon Web Services) have the upper hand when it comes to achieving compliance. 

This article explores AWS compliance and how to stay in line with the latest in compliance. 

What are the Best AWS Compliance Tools?

AWS has a suite of tools to help users achieve regulatory compliance quickly. Here is a rundown of the tools you need to familiarize yourself with.

Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon GuardDuty allows continuous monitoring and intelligent threat detection to help you protect your AWS accounts and workloads. You can use Amazon GuardDuty to monitor for threats and malicious activities. With this threat detection and monitoring service, you can protect your data and workloads.

Alongside detecting threats, this service automates threat response and remediation. You can use Amazon GuardDuty across various accounts in an organization.

Amazon Artifact

Amazon Artifact provides all compliance-related information about AWS services on demand. Amazon Artifact delivers the visibility you need into your security control environment. You can rely on the various reports to evaluate services and monitor your organization’s compliance environment.

How Does AWS Help Achieve Compliance?

AWS is a highly secure platform to build and deploy workloads in the cloud. Besides providing AWS-native tools to monitor compliance, AWS helps its users achieve compliance using the following:

Build with the Highest Standards for Privacy and Data Security

As part of the shared responsibility model, designers built AWS with high data security and privacy standards. Unlike other cloud platforms, AWS minimizes data breaches and other security threats. Users can utilize the various security capabilities to secure workloads. Data encrypted in AWS is highly secure, which helps organizations stay within data protection requirements.

Third-party Validation of Global Compliance Requirements

AWS monitors numerous global regulatory requirements so you can quickly meet compliance standards. Third-party auditors audit the different AWS services for compliance requirements such as PCI, HIPAA, SOC, and more. You can rely on the reports from auditors to choose services that stay in line with your required compliance program. The reports allow your organization to quickly meet compliance across many industries such as finance, retail, healthcare, and more.

Compliance Resources

AWS provides customers with information about which security controls they should incorporate in their organizations. This information is available in workbooks and guides that document how to architect for various regulatory requirements. AWS information helps users architect their cloud resources in line with the requirements.

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