ICYMI: August 2026 @AWS Security
Brief
Read all about the latest AWS security features, compliance updates, and hands-on resources in our monthly digest posts. You’ll find expert blog posts, new service capabilities, code samples, and workshops.
AWS Security Blog posts
August brought 20 AWS Security Blog posts organized across seven categories. Identity and access management led the month with five posts covering self-service rate limits for Amazon Cognito , a decade of AWS Managed Microsoft AD , a redesigned sign-in experience, console Private Access for isolated VPCs, and automated IAM Identity Center governance.
Data protection followed with four posts on AWS KMS data key caching, ACME protocol support in AWS Certificate Manager , Amazon S3 over-permissioned access remediation, and the upcoming deprecation of email-based domain validation.