AWS Updates - 2025-11-25

AWS Security Blog

AWS Secrets Manager launches Managed External Secrets for Third-Party Credentials

• Link: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-secrets-manager-launches-managed-external-secrets-for-third-party-credentials/
• Published: 2025-11-25

Although AWS Secrets Manager excels at managing the lifecycle of Amazon Web Services (AWS) secrets, managing credentials from third-party software providers presents unique challenges for organizations as they scale usage of their cloud applications. Organizations using multiple third-party services frequently develop different security approaches for each provider’s credentials because there hasn’t been a standardized way […]

Introducing guidelines for network scanning

• Link: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/introducing-guidelines-for-network-scanning/
• Published: 2025-11-25

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is introducing guidelines for network scanning of customer workloads. By following these guidelines, conforming scanners will collect more accurate data, minimize abuse reports, and help improve the security of the internet for everyone. Network scanning is a practice in modern IT environments that can be used for either legitimate security needs […]