Securing Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing Platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a highly scalable cloud computing platform with
high availability and dependability, and the flexibility to enable customers to build a wide
range of applications. The issues of end-to-end security and end-to-end privacy within
the cloud computing world are more sophisticated than within a single data center not
facing the Internet. Ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of customer’s
systems and data is of the utmost importance to AWS, as is maintaining trust and
confidence. This document is intended to answer customer questions such as “How does
AWS help me ensure my data is secure?” Specifically, AWS physical and operational
security processes are described for network and infrastructure under AWS’
management, as well as service-specific security implementations.

This document provides an overview of security as it pertains to the following areas
relevant to AWS:
• Certifications and Accreditations
• Physical Security
• Backups
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Security
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Security
• Amazon SimpleDB Security