Security Best Practices for Kinesis Data Analytics

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics provides a number of security features to consider as you develop and implement your own security policies. The following best practices are general guidelines and don’t represent a complete security solution. Because these best practices might not be appropriate or sufficient for your environment, treat them as helpful considerations rather than prescriptions.

Use IAM roles to access other Amazon services

Your Kinesis Data Analytics application must have valid credentials to access resources in other services, such as Kinesis data streams, Firehose delivery streams, or Amazon S3 buckets. You should not store AWS credentials directly in the application or in an Amazon S3 bucket. These are long-term credentials that are not automatically rotated and could have a significant business impact if they are compromised.

Instead, you should use an IAM role to manage temporary credentials for your application to access other resources. When you use a role, you don't have to use long-term credentials to access other resources.

For more information, see the following topics in the IAM User Guide:

• IAM Roles

• Common Scenarios for Roles: Users, Applications, and Services

Implement Server-Side Encryption in Dependent Resources

Data at rest and data in transit is encrypted in Kinesis Data Analytics, and this encryption cannot be disabled. You should implement server-side encryption in your dependent resources, such as Kinesis data streams, Firehose delivery streams, and Amazon S3 buckets. For more information on implementing server-side encryption in dependent resources, see Data Protection.

Use CloudTrail to Monitor API Calls

Kinesis Data Analytics is integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an Amazon service in Kinesis Data Analytics.

Using the information collected by CloudTrail, you can determine the request that was made to Kinesis Data Analytics, the IP address from which the request was made, who made the request, when it was made, and additional details.

For more information, see Logging API Calls with AWS CloudTrail.