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Compliance Services

Compliance Services

There are a couple of services that are related to compliance. Now we talked about AWS config in the previous section so I'm not going to cover it again here but config is a service that you can use for compliance, configuration compliance specifically. Another service which we'll cover now is AWS Artifact. Now Artifact provides on-demand access to AWS's security and compliance reports. Now it's important to stress the point that this is AWS's information. So what it means is you can see the security and compliance documents that relate to the AWS platform itself. These reports can include the service organization control or SOC reports, payment card industry reports, and also certifications from accreditation bodies, geographies, and compliance verticals. So it's really about the effectiveness of security controls and the build of the AWS platform. Artifact is useful information if you're thinking about building an application on AWS that has some very high security compliance…

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