AWS Security Blog
Category: AWS Management Console
Extend your data perimeter to the AWS Management Console with Private Access
Organizations in regulated industries such as financial services, government, defense, and healthcare restrict their sensitive workloads to isolated network environments with no access to the public internet. Until now, customers could restrict AWS Management Console access to authorized AWS accounts and corporate networks, but the console itself required internet connectivity. This was creating tension between […]
Restrict AWS Management Console access to expected networks with sign-in resource-based policies and RCPs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced support for resource-based policies and resource control policies (RCPs) for AWS Sign-In. By using resource-based policies and RCPs, you can restrict access to the AWS Management Console sign-in and aws login CLI sessions to requests from your expected networks, your on-premises data center networks, and your Amazon Virtual Private […]
Implementing just-in-time privileged access to AWS with Microsoft Entra and AWS IAM Identity Center
June 19, 2025: We made a correction to the windows of access that a user could have when using this solution. Controlling access to your privileged and sensitive resources is critical for all AWS customers. Preventing direct human interaction with services and systems through automation is the primary means of accomplishing this. For those infrequent […]
Access accounts with AWS Management Console Private Access
December 7, 2023: This blog has been updated to include a paragraph about using aws:SourceVpc IAM condition context key in endpoint policies. AWS Management Console Private Access is an advanced security feature to help you control access to the AWS Management Console. In this post, I will show you how this feature works, share current […]