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Happy New Year! AWS Weekly Roundup: 10,000 AIdeas Competition, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS Managed Instances and more (January 5, 2026)

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2 months ago

Happy New Year! AWS Weekly Roundup: 10,000 AIdeas Competition, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS Managed Instances and more (January 5, 2026)

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3 months ago

Announcing 176 new AWS Security Hub controls in AWS Control Tower

Today, AWS announces that AWS Control Tower supports an additional 176 Security Hub controls in Control Catalog for use cases such as security, cost, durability, and operati...

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3 months ago

Announcing 176 new AWS Security Hub controls in AWS Control Tower Today, AWS announces that AWS Control Tower supports an additional 176 Security Hub controls in Control Catalog for use cases such as security, cost, durability, and operations. With this launch, you can now search, discover, enable and manage these additional controls directly from AWS Control Tower and govern more use cases for your multi-account environment. To get started, in AWS Control Tower go to the Control Catalog and search for controls with the Control owner filter set to AWS Security Hub , you will then see all the AWS Security Hub controls present in the Catalog. If you find controls that are relevant for you, you can then directly enable them from the AWS Control Tower console. You can also use ListControls, GetControl and EnableControl APIs. You can search the new AWS Config rules in all AWS Regions where AWS Control Tower is available, including AWS GovCloud (US). When you want to deploy a rule, reference the list of supported regions for that rule to see where it can be enabled. To learn more, visit the AWS Control Tower User Guide.

🆕 AWS Control Tower adds 176 new Security Hub controls for better security, cost, and governance. Enable them via the Control Catalog. For more, check the AWS Control Tower User Guide.

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4 months ago

AWS Control Tower introduces a controls-dedicated experience

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4 months ago

AWS Control Tower now supports seven new compliance frameworks and 279 additional AWS Config rules

Today, AWS Control Tower announces support for an additional 279 managed Config rules in Control Catalog for various use cases such as security, cost, durability, and opera...

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4 months ago

AWS Control Tower introduces a controls-dedicated experience AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to manage and govern your environment with AWS managed controls. Starting today, customers can have direct access to these AWS managed controls without requiring a full Control Tower deployment. This new experience offers over 750 managed controls that customers can deploy within minutes while maintaining their existing account structure. AWS Control Tower v4.0 introduces direct access to Control Catalog, allowing customers to review available managed controls and deploy them into their existing AWS Organization. With this release, customers now have more flexibility and autonomy over their organizational structure, as Control Tower will no longer enforce a mandatory structure. Additionally, customers will have improved operations such as cleaner resource and permissions management and cost attribution due to the separation of S3 buckets and SNS notifications for the AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail integrations. This controls-focused experience is now available in all AWS Regions where AWS Control Tower is supported. For more information about this new capability see the AWS Control Tower User Guide or contact your AWS account team. For a full list of Regions where AWS Control Tower is available, see the AWS Region Table.

🆕 AWS Control Tower now offers direct access to over 750 managed controls for easier governance without full deployment, enhanced flexibility, and improved resource management. Available in all supported regions.

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4 months ago

AWS Control Tower now supports seven new compliance frameworks and 279 additional AWS Config rules Today, AWS Control Tower announces support for an additional 279 managed Config rules in Control Catalog for various use cases such as security, cost, durability, and operations. With this launch, you can now search, discover, enable and manage these additional rules directly from AWS Control Tower and govern more use cases for your multi-account environment. AWS Control Tower also supports seven new compliance frameworks in Control Catalog. In addition to existing frameworks, most controls are now mapped to ACSC-Essential-Eight-Nov-2022, ACSC-ISM-02-Mar-2023, AWS-WAF-v10, CCCS-Medium-Cloud-Control-May-2019, CIS-AWS-Benchmark-v1.2, CIS-AWS-Benchmark-v1.3, CIS-v7.1 To get started, go to the Control Catalog and search for controls with the implementation filter AWS Config to view all AWS Config rules in the Catalog. You can enable relevant rules directly using the AWS Control Tower console or the ListControls, GetControl and EnableControl APIs. We've also enhanced control relationship mapping, helping you understand how different controls work together. The updated ListControlMappings API now reveals important relationships between controls - showing which ones complement each other, are alternatives, or are mutually exclusive. For instance, you can now easily identify when a Config Rule (detection) and a Service Control Policy (prevention) can work together for comprehensive security coverage. These new features are available in AWS Regions where AWS Control Tower is available, including AWS GovCloud (US). Reference the list of supported regions for each Config rule to see where it can be enabled. To learn more, visit the AWS Control Tower User Guide.

🆕 AWS Control Tower adds 279 new Config rules and seven compliance frameworks to boost security and governance in multi-account setups. Access and manage these via the Control Catalog in supported regions.

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4 months ago

AWS Control Tower introduces a Controls Dedicated experience | Amazon Web Services AWS Control Tower now offers Control Only Experience, enabling faster governance setup for established multi-account environments by providing access to AWS managed controls without requiring a full landing...

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4 months ago

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5 months ago

AWS Control Tower is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 34 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regi...

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5 months ago

AWS Control Tower is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 34 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization. You can set up a multi-account AWS environment within 30 minutes or less, govern new or existing account configurations, gain visibility into compliance status, and enforce controls at scale. If you are new to AWS Control Tower, you can launch it today in any of the supported regions and you can use AWS Control Tower to govern your multi-account environment in all supported Regions. If you are already using AWS Control Tower and you want to extend its governance features to the newly supported regions in your accounts, you can go to the settings page in your AWS Control Tower dashboard, select your regions, and update your landing zone. Once you update all your governed accounts, your landing zone, managed accounts, and registered OUs will be under governance in the new region(s). For a full list of Regions where AWS Control Tower is available, see the AWS Region Table. To learn more, visit the AWS Control Tower homepage or see the AWS Control Tower User Guide.

🆕 AWS Control Tower is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, expanding to 34 regions. It simplifies multi-account setup, governance, and compliance, enabling secure, scalable environments within 30 minutes.

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8 months ago

AWS Control Tower adds support for AWS PrivateLink

AWS Control Tower and Control Catalog APIs now come with https://aws.amazon.com/privatelink/ support, allowing you to invoke AWS Control Tower and Control Catalog APIs from within your Amazon Virtual Priva...

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8 months ago

AWS Control Tower adds support for AWS PrivateLink AWS Control Tower and Control Catalog APIs now come with AWS PrivateLink support, allowing you to invoke AWS Control Tower and Control Catalog APIs from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between virtual private clouds (VPCs), supported services and resources, and your on-premises networks, without exposing your traffic to the public internet. AWS Control Tower simplifies managing a secure, compliant multi-account environment within an AWS Organization. Customers enable AWS services like Config, CloudTrail, and Identity Center with AWS-recommended configurations through Control Tower, ensuring that all accounts in each Organization Unit (OU) adhere to the same baseline defined by the IT administrator. Applications running inside these accounts are governed via managed controls deployed through the Control Catalog in Control Tower, ensuring compliance with business requirements and regulatory policies on an ongoing basis. AWS PrivateLink support for AWS Control Tower is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Control Tower is available. For a full list of AWS regions where AWS Control Tower is available, see AWS Region Table. You can start deploying AWS Control Tower from the console or using AWS Control Tower APIs.

🆕 AWS Control Tower now supports AWS PrivateLink, enabling secure API access within VPCs without public internet exposure, enhancing compliance and security for multi-account environments. Available in all regions where AWS Control Tower operates.

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8 months ago

AWS Config rules add classifications from AWS Control Tower Control Catalog Today, AWS Config rules adds classification information from AWS Control Tower Control Catalog to make it easier for you to identify how Config rules map to different compliance frameworks such as CIS-v8.0, FedRAMP-r4, and NIST-CSF-v1.1. AWS Config rules help you automatically evaluate your AWS resource configurations for desired settings, enabling you to assess, audit, and evaluate configurations of your AWS resources. Control Catalog is a feature of AWS Control Tower that enables you to search AWS managed controls and their associated compliance frameworks. Control Catalog has classifications including Domain (such as "Data Protection"), Objective (such as "Data Encryption"), and common control (such as "Encrypt data at rest") to help you better understand the purpose of a control. Today’s launch maps AWS Config rules to the specific compliance frameworks available in AWS Control Tower Control Catalog (CIS-v8.0, FedRAMP-r4, ISO-IEC-27001:2013-Annex-A, NIST-CSF-v1.1, NIST-SP-800-171-r2, PCI-DSS-v4.0, SSAE-18-SOC-2-Oct-2023), adding classification information (Domain, Objective, common control) to each AWS Config rule. If you're using AWS Config, you'll now see the same classification information in the AWS Config Console and in the AWS Control Tower Control Catalog, ensuring a unified experience across your AWS environment. This alignment between AWS Control Tower and AWS Config allows for seamless integration and more efficient management of your compliance and security posture. AWS Config rules with classifications from AWS Control Tower Control Catalog are available in all AWS Commercial regions where AWS Config and AWS Control Tower are available. To learn more about AWS Config rules and compliance frameworks, visit the AWS Config documentation.

🆕 AWS Config now links rules to CIS, FedRAMP, and NIST frameworks, leveraging AWS Control Tower's Control Catalog for streamlined compliance across AWS Config and Control Tower, available in all commercial regions.

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8 months ago

AWS Config rules add classifications from AWS Control Tower Control Catalog

Today, AWS Config rules adds classification information from AWS Control Tower Control Catalog to make it easier for you to identify how Config rules map to different compliance framew...

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9 months ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS re:Inforce 2025, AWS WAF, AWS Control Tower, and more (June 16, 2025)

Today marks the start of AWS re:Inforce 2025, where security professionals are gathering for three days of technica...

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9 months ago

AWS Control Tower now supports service-linked AWS Config managed Config rules

Today, we are excited to announce support for service-linked AWS Config rules in AWS Control Towers detective controls. A service-linked AWS Config rule is managed entirely by AW...

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9 months ago

AWS Control Tower now supports service-linked AWS Config managed Config rules Today, we are excited to announce support for service-linked AWS Config rules in AWS Control Towers detective controls. A service-linked AWS Config rule is managed entirely by AWS services and cannot be edited or deleted by users. To maintain consistency, prevent configuration drift, and simplify user experience, you can only update these rules through AWS Control Tower. With this release, AWS Control Tower now deploys service-linked Config rules directly in managed accounts, replacing the previous AWS CloudFormation StackSets deployment method. This change delivers substantial improvements to deployment speed, significantly reducing the time required to enable service-linked Config rules across multiple AWS Control Tower managed accounts and regions. Additionally, these service-linked Config rules are designed to ensure consistent governance of your resources through detective controls by preventing unintentional configuration drift. AWS Control Towers Config rules detect resource noncompliance within your accounts, such as policy violations, and provide alerts through the dashboard. You can deploy AWS Control Tower controls via the console or using AWS Control Tower control APIs. For a complete list of supported AWS Regions, please refer to the AWS Region Table.

🆕 AWS Control Tower now supports service-linked AWS Config managed rules, improving deployment speed and governance, replacing CloudFormation StackSets, and preventing configuration drift for consistent compliance across managed accounts.

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10 months ago

Setting up AWS Control Tower with security and compliance in mind A prescriptive guide to help administrators enhance their Control Tower setup with easy steps

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10 months ago

AWS Control Tower releases Enabled controls view for centralized visibility

Today, AWS Control Tower introduces a new ‘Enabled controls’ page, helping customers track, filter, and manage their enabled controls across their AWS Control Tower organizatio...

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10 months ago

AWS Control Tower releases Enabled controls view for centralized visibility Today, AWS Control Tower introduces a new ‘Enabled controls’ page, helping customers track, filter, and manage their enabled controls across their AWS Control Tower organization. This enhancement significantly improves visibility and streamlines the management of your AWS Control Tower controls, saving valuable time and reducing the complexity of managing enabled controls. For organizations managing hundreds or thousands of AWS accounts, this feature provides a centralized view of control coverage, making it easier to maintain consistent governance at scale. Previously, to assess the enabled controls coverage, you had to navigate to the organizational unit (OU) or account details page in the console to track the controls deployed per target. With this release, the Enabled controls view centralizes all the enabled controls across your AWS Control Tower environment, giving you a single, unified location to track, filter, and manage enabled controls. With this new feature, you can now more easily identify gaps in your control coverage. For instance, you can quickly search and filter for all enabled preventive controls and verify if they're applied consistently across critical OUs. You can drill down by organizational units, behavior, severity and implementation to see exactly which controls are enabled, giving you a targeted visibility into your governance posture across your environment. Lastly, you can also get a pre-filtered list of enabled controls by behavior from the AWS Control Tower dashboard’s Controls summary page. To benefit from the new Enabled controls view page, navigate to the Controls section in your AWS Control Tower console. To learn more, visit the AWS Control Tower homepage or see the AWS Control Tower User Guide. For a full list of AWS Regions where AWS Control Tower is available, see the AWS Region Table.

🆕 AWS Control Tower now features an 'Enabled controls' page for centralized visibility, helping manage and track controls across accounts, improving governance and reducing complexity.

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10 months ago

AWS Control Tower introduces account-level reporting for baseline APIs

AWS Control Tower customers can now programmatically view statuses for their governed accounts via baseline APIs. The AWS Control Tower baseline contains best practice configurations, c...

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10 months ago

AWS Control Tower introduces account-level reporting for baseline APIs AWS Control Tower customers can now programmatically view statuses for their governed accounts via baseline APIs. The AWS Control Tower baseline contains best practice configurations, controls, and resources required for governance. When you enable this baseline on an organizational unit (OU), member accounts within the OU will be enrolled under governance. With this new experience, you can use baseline status to view enrollment for your accounts and use drift status to identify when account and OU baseline configurations are out of sync. In addition to seeing statuses for your accounts and OUs in the AWS Control Tower console, you can the ListEnabledBaselines API to view statuses for your enabled baselines. To view statuses for individual accounts, use the “includeChildren” flag. You can filter by these statuses to view only the accounts and OUs which require your attention. These APIs include AWS CloudFormation support, allowing you to build automations to manage your OUs and accounts with infrastructure as code (IaC). To learn more about these APIs, review Baselines and API References in the AWS Control Tower User Guide. Baseline APIs and the newly launched reporting capabilities are available in all AWS Regions where AWS Control Tower is available. For a list of AWS Regions where AWS Control Tower is available, see the AWS Region Table.

🆕 AWS Control Tower now provides account-level reporting for baseline APIs, enabling programmatic views for governed accounts, drift detection, and IaC management of organizational units and accounts. Available in all regions.

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10 months ago

AWS Control Tower is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) Regions

Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) Regions. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in...

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10 months ago

AWS Control Tower is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) Regions Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) Regions. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 32 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization. You can set up a multi-account AWS environment within 30 minutes or less, govern new or existing account configurations, gain visibility into compliance status, and enforce controls at scale. If you are new to AWS Control Tower, you can launch it today in any of the supported regions, and you can use AWS Control Tower to build and govern your multi-account environment in all supported Regions. If you are already using AWS Control Tower and you want to extend its governance features to the newly supported regions in your accounts, you can go to the settings page in your AWS Control Tower dashboard, select your regions, and update your landing zone. Once you update all accounts that are governed by AWS Control Tower, your landing zone, managed accounts, and registered OUs will be under governance in the new regions. For a full list of Regions where AWS Control Tower is available, see the AWS Region Table. To learn more, visit the AWS Control Tower homepage or see the AWS Control Tower User Guide.

🆕 AWS Control Tower now in Thailand and Mexico, expanding to 32 global regions. It simplifies multi-account setup, governance, compliance, and visibility. Easily launch or update governance via the AWS Control Tower dashboard.

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11 months ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: Upcoming AWS Summits, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon CloudFront updates, and more (April 21, 2025)

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11 months ago

Announcing 223 new AWS Config rules in AWS Control Tower

Today, AWS announces that AWS Control Tower supports an additional 223 managed Config rules in Control Catalog for various use cases such as security, cost, durability, and operations. With this laun...

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11 months ago

Announcing 223 new AWS Config rules in AWS Control Tower Today, AWS announces that AWS Control Tower supports an additional 223 managed Config rules in Control Catalog for various use cases such as security, cost, durability, and operations. With this launch, you can now search, discover, enable and manage these additional rules directly from AWS Control Tower and govern more use cases for your multi-account environment. To get started, in AWS Control Tower go to the Control Catalog and search for controls with the implementation filter AWS Config, you will then see all the AWS Config rules present in the Catalog. If you find rules that are relevant for you, you can then directly enable them from the AWS Control Tower console. You can also use ListControls, GetControl and EnableControl APIs. With this launch we’ve updated ListControls and GetControl APIs to support three new fields: Create Time, Severity and Implementation, that you can use when searching for a control in Control Catalog. For example, you can now programmatically find high severity Config rules which were created after your previous evaluation. You can search the new AWS Config rules in all AWS Regions where AWS Control Tower is available, including AWS GovCloud (US). When you want to deploy a rule, reference the list of supported regions for that rule to see where it can be enabled. To learn more, visit the AWS Control Tower User Guide.

🆕 AWS Control Tower adds 223 new Config rules for security, cost, and operations. Enable them via the Control Catalog, with improved search APIs. Available globally. See User Guide for details.

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