Data protection in Amazon QLDB
Important
End of support notice: Existing customers will be able to use Amazon QLDB until end of support on 07/31/2025. For more details, see
Migrate an Amazon QLDB Ledger to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
The AWS shared responsibility model
For data protection purposes, we recommend that you protect AWS account credentials and set up individual users with AWS IAM Identity Center or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). That way, each user is given only the permissions necessary to fulfill their job duties. We also recommend that you secure your data in the following ways:
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Use multi-factor authentication (MFA) with each account.
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Use SSL/TLS to communicate with AWS resources. We require TLS 1.2 and recommend TLS 1.3.
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Set up API and user activity logging with AWS CloudTrail.
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Use AWS encryption solutions, along with all default security controls within AWS services.
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Use advanced managed security services such as Amazon Macie, which assists in discovering and securing sensitive data that is stored in Amazon S3.
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If you require FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules when accessing AWS through a command line interface or an API, use a FIPS endpoint. For more information about the available FIPS endpoints, see Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3
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We strongly recommend that you never put confidential or sensitive information, such as your customers' email addresses, into tags or free-form text fields such as a Name field. This includes when you work with QLDB or other AWS services using the console, API, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs. Any data that you enter into tags or free-form text fields used for names may be used for billing or diagnostic logs. If you provide a URL to an external server, we strongly recommend that you do not include credentials information in the URL to validate your request to that server.
Note
This guidance about avoiding tags or free-form fields for sensitive information refers to the metadata of a QLDB ledger resource, rather than data stored within the ledger. Your data stored within a QLDB ledger resource is not used for billing or diagnostic logs.