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Compliance validation for Amazon EKS clusters

To learn whether an Amazon service is within the scope of specific compliance programs, see Amazon services in Scope by Compliance Program and choose the compliance program that you are interested in. For general information, see Amazon Compliance Programs.

You can download third-party audit reports using Amazon Artifact. For more information, see Downloading Reports in Amazon Artifact.

Your compliance responsibility when using Amazon services is determined by the sensitivity of your data, your company’s compliance objectives, and applicable laws and regulations. Amazon provides the following resources to help with compliance:

  • Security Compliance & Governance – These solution implementation guides discuss architectural considerations and provide steps for deploying security and compliance features.

  • HIPAA Eligible Services Reference – Lists HIPAA eligible services. Not all Amazon services are HIPAA eligible.

  • Amazon Compliance Resources – This collection of workbooks and guides might apply to your industry and location.

  • Amazon Customer Compliance Guides – Understand the shared responsibility model through the lens of compliance. The guides summarize the best practices for securing Amazon services and map the guidance to security controls across multiple frameworks (including National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI), and International Organization for Standardization (ISO)).

  • Evaluating Resources with Rules in the Amazon Config Developer Guide – The Amazon Config service assesses how well your resource configurations comply with internal practices, industry guidelines, and regulations.

  • Amazon Security Hub – This Amazon service provides a comprehensive view of your security state within Amazon. Security Hub uses security controls to evaluate your Amazon resources and to check your compliance against security industry standards and best practices. For a list of supported services and controls, see Security Hub controls reference.

  • Amazon GuardDuty – This Amazon service detects potential threats to your Amazon accounts, workloads, containers, and data by monitoring your environment for suspicious and malicious activities. GuardDuty can help you address various compliance requirements, like PCI DSS, by meeting intrusion detection requirements mandated by certain compliance frameworks.

  • Amazon Audit Manager – This Amazon service helps you continuously audit your Amazon usage to simplify how you manage risk and compliance with regulations and industry standards.