Data Protection in Amazon Textract

The AWS shared responsibility model applies to data protection in Amazon Textract. As described in this model, AWS is responsible for protecting the global infrastructure that runs all of the AWS Cloud. You are responsible for maintaining control over your content that is hosted on this infrastructure. This content includes the security configuration and management tasks for the AWS services that you use. For more information about data privacy, see the Data Privacy FAQ. For information about data protection in Europe, see the AWS Shared Responsibility Model and GDPR blog post on the AWS Security Blog.

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:

• Use multi-factor authentication (MFA) with each account.

• Use SSL/TLS to communicate with AWS resources. We recommend TLS 1.2 or later.

• Set up API and user activity logging with AWS CloudTrail.

• Use AWS encryption solutions, along with all default security controls within AWS services.

• Use advanced managed security services such as Amazon Macie, which assists in discovering and securing sensitive data that is stored in Amazon S3.

• If you require FIPS 140-2 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) 140-2.

We strongly recommend that you never put confidential or sensitive information, such as your customers' email addresses, into free-form text fields such as a Name field. This includes when you work with Amazon Textract or other AWS services using the console, API, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs. Any data that you enter into free-form text fields may be picked up for inclusion in 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.

For more information about data protection, see the AWS Shared Responsibility Model and GDPR blog post on the AWS Security Blog.

Internetwork Traffic Privacy

Amazon Textract communicates exclusively through HTTPS endpoints, which are supported in all Regions supported by Amazon Textract

Custom Queries

Any content used for generating adapters is processed internally within Amazon Textract for the duration of the training. The content is encrypted at rest and in transit. The content is stored and processed in the AWS Region where you are training the adapter, and is deleted once training completes. By default, the content is encrypted using AWS owned AWS KMS keys. If a KMSKeyId is provided when creating an adapter version, the content is encrypted using the Customer managed CMK provided. Customer content (training images, prelabeling results, annotations) is not logged or retained even for debugging purposes.