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Updated best practice guidance | Best practices were updated with new guidance in the following areas: SEC 2, SEC 3, SEC 4, SEC 6, SEC 7, SEC 8, SEC 9, SEC 10, and SEC 11. Guidance has been updated and refined across the pillar. | November 6, 2024 |
Updated best practice guidance | Large-scale best practice updates were made throughout the pillar. Multiple best practices reordered and consolidated. Significant changes in SEC 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. | June 27, 2024 |
Updated best practice guidance | Best practices were updated with new guidance in the following areas: Operating your workloads securely and Protecting data in transit. | December 6, 2023 |
Updated best practice guidance | Major updates to the guidance and best practices in Incident response. Multiple best practices updated in Preparation. Two new areas added to Incident response: Operations and Post-incident activity. New best practice SEC10-BP08 Establish a framework for learning from incidents added. | October 3, 2023 |
Updated best practice guidance | Best practices were updated with new guidance in the following areas: Prepare and Simulate. | July 13, 2023 |
Updates for new Framework. | Best practices updated with prescriptive guidance and new best practices added. New best practice area of Application Security (AppSec) added. | April 10, 2023 |
Whitepaper updated | Best practices updated with new implementation guidance. | December 15, 2022 |
Whitepaper updated | Best practices expanded and improvement plans added. | October 20, 2022 |
Minor update | IAM information updated to reflect current best practices. | June 28, 2022 |
Minor update | Additional AWS PrivateLink information added and corrected broken links. | May 19, 2022 |
Added AWS PrivateLink. | May 6, 2022 | |
Minor update | Removed non-inclusive language. | April 22, 2022 |
Minor update | Added information about VPC Network Access Analyzer. | February 2, 2022 |
Minor update | Fixed broken link. | May 27, 2021 |
Minor update | Editorial changes throughout. | May 17, 2021 |
Major update | Added section on governance, added detail to various sections, added new features and services throughout. | May 7, 2021 |
Minor update | Updated links. | March 10, 2021 |
Minor update | Fixed broken link. | July 15, 2020 |
Updates for new Framework | Updated guidance on account, identity, and permissions management. | July 8, 2020 |
Updates for new Framework | Updated to expand advice in every area, new best practices, services and features. | April 30, 2020 |
Whitepaper updated | Updates to reflect new AWS services and features, and updated references. | July 1, 2018 |
Whitepaper updated | Updated System Security Configuration and Maintenance section to reflect new AWS services and features. | May 1, 2017 |
Initial publication | Security Pillar - AWS Well-Architected Framework published. | November 1, 2016 |
