Infrastructure security in Amazon IoT SiteWise - Amazon IoT SiteWise
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Infrastructure security in Amazon IoT SiteWise

As a managed service, Amazon IoT SiteWise is protected by Amazon global network security. For information about Amazon security services and how Amazon protects infrastructure, see Amazon Cloud Security. To design your Amazon environment using the best practices for infrastructure security, see Infrastructure Protection in Security Pillar Amazon Well‐Architected Framework.

You use Amazon published API calls to access Amazon IoT SiteWise through the network. Clients must support the following:

  • Transport Layer Security (TLS). We require TLS 1.2 and recommend TLS 1.3.

  • Cipher suites with perfect forward secrecy (PFS) such as DHE (Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman) or ECDHE (Elliptic Curve Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman). Most modern systems such as Java 7 and later support these modes.

Additionally, requests must be signed by using an access key ID and a secret access key that is associated with an IAM principal. Or you can use the Amazon Security Token Service (Amazon STS) to generate temporary security credentials to sign requests.

SiteWise Edge gateways, which run on Amazon IoT Greengrass, use X.509 certificates and cryptographic keys to connect and authenticate to the Amazon Cloud. For more information, see Device authentication and authorization for Amazon IoT Greengrass in the Amazon IoT Greengrass Version 1 Developer Guide.