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How To Meet Compliance Requirements for Applications in AWS

Today’s compliance landscape is more complicated than it’s ever been—and it’s full of liabilities for any organization that retains user or customer data, whether workloads are hosted on-premises or in the cloud with providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS).


An organization’s compliance with regulatory standards for application usage and data storage must remain in accordance with industry guidelines and local, national, and international laws.
Failing to maintain compliance can result in several consequences, including steep fines, damage to a business’s reputation, and even the potential of downtime to its network infrastructure, causing severe disruptions to its processes and end users.

Let’s look at what compliance in AWS entails and some solutions organizations can leverage to ensure they remain compliant.

Réglementations en matière de conformité au sein d’AWS

Cloud environments like AWS have become increasingly popular as more organizations realize their scalability and cost efficiencies. However, as these organizations increase their cloud migrations, they must also understand the increased scope of compliance they are taking on—especially since cloud providers like AWS do not offer the necessary data protection and security requirements to meet full compliance on all ends.

Remember that compliance is not just about meeting requirements for real-time processes; securing enterprise data and its backups is an essential aspect that can often prove even more complicated. If your organization is currently using AWS for its workloads and data, you must be equipped to meet all the various compliance requirements, both now and as they change in the future.

Bien qu’AWS assure un certain niveau de conformité de son côté, la conformité totale de l’organisation relève de ce que l’on appelle le modèle de responsabilité partagée.

Qu’est-ce que le modèle de responsabilité partagée AWS ?

Under AWS’s shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for compliance with any regulations regarding the host layer and physical infrastructure, while the organizations using AWS are responsible for regulations relevant to how they use the cloud services, host applications, and store data.
These shared compliance responsibilities are referred to as “security of the cloud” and “security in the cloud.”

AWS is responsible for the security of the cloud itself—the infrastructure that runs its cloud services, such as hardware, software, networking, and facilities.

Les organisations qui utilisent AWS sont responsables du maintien de la sécurité dans le cloud. Ces responsabilités dépendent des services concrets utilisés par l’organisation et peuvent inclure toute application, tout logiciel ou tout utilitaire installé par le client sur les instances, l’accès aux points de terminaison utilisés pour stocker et récupérer des données, ainsi que la gestion des données, y compris les options de chiffrement mises en œuvre.

The organization’s responsibilities don’t end there; they must also classify their assets and use identity and access management (IAM) tools to apply the appropriate permissions. And this is all in addition to meeting service-level agreements (SLAs) with their customers.

Même si AWS propose aux entreprises ses propres outils de conformité natifs, cela n’enlève rien à la complexité et à la lourdeur que peut présenter ce processus lorsqu’il est effectué manuellement de manière continue.

Les défis liés à la mise en conformité sur AWS

Organizations have many hurdles to face when seeking to meet compliance requirements within AWS.

First, there is a wide range of governmental and industry-specific regulations, including HIPPA, PCI, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and Europe’s Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These requirements are in addition to the complexities surrounding protecting consumer personally identifiable information (PII).

Ces réglementations sont également susceptibles d’être modifiées à tout moment. Les incohérences entre les réglementations étatiques, fédérales et internationales compliquent encore davantage la situation. Par exemple, la durée minimale de conservation prévue par la réglementation fédérale pour les dossiers protégés par la loi HIPAA est de six ans, mais les exigences au niveau des États peuvent varier entre cinq et dix ans.

There’s also the issue of the hidden costs and sticker shock that can occur when achieving compliance within AWS. Organizations that use large volumes of snapshots to back up data and meet retention requirements can see their costs snowball over time as the snapshots add up.

Furthermore, organizations going the manual route with compliance must use multiple tools or manually-written scripts to piece together their policies—a process that’s very complex to implement and maintain. This is even more difficult when trying to keep up with shifting regulations or trying to stifle rising storage costs.

What’s the Best Way To Meet Compliance in AWS?

S’en remettre à une mise en conformité manuelle est complexe, fastidieux, coûteux et laisse une grande marge d’erreur. Ce contexte engendre un risque élevé de non-conformité, susceptible d’entraîner rapidement la faillite de l’entreprise.

Choosing an AWS compliance solution that meets the necessary data retention periods, security measures, cost efficiencies, and data recovery requirements is the most effective way to help you not only achieve but continue meeting requirements as they change.

Clumio simplifie la protection des données et la conformité sur AWS grâce à une solution clé en main

Clumio is a fully secure, backup-as-a-service that provides air-gap ransomware protection and compliance-driven data retention for AWS applications. it offers simple automation of even the most tedious compliance tasks, freeing up your IT and development staff to focus on other aspects of the organization’s operations.

With Clumio, your organization has a centralized backup solution that defines backup policies and monitors compliance in real-time across your entire AWS environment—and all of your SLAs. Clumio also enables predictable cloud backup and data storage costs, eliminating skyrocketing overhead and sticker shock associated with the constant creation of data snapshots.

Clumio y parvient grâce aux éléments suivants :

  • Elle offre une interface simple qui fournit une vue unique et cohérente de tous vos actifs AWS et simplifie les choses en détectant automatiquement les comptes AWS et en répertoriant toutes les ressources nécessitant une protection en matière de conformité, grâce à des politiques uniformes. De plus, les nouvelles ressources sont automatiquement détectées et se voient appliquer les mêmes politiques.
  • Il offre des fonctionnalités de chiffrement, de compression et de gestion des ressources, ainsi que des alertes instantanées en cas de risque de non-conformité.
  • Storing backups behind an air-gap and outside of production environments to help protect against account compromises such as ransomware attacks and bad actor behavior.
  • Clumio a mené à bien de nombreux processus de certification rigoureux, notamment les normes ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA et PCI DSS. Ces tests rigoureux font de Clumio l’une des plateformes les plus sécurisées sur AWS.
  • Eliminating the need to write work-around automation scripts thanks to Clumio’s policy-driven solution that helps organizations meet data and governance mandates by by enabling the application of uniform policies to all assets. Clumio allows policies to be built using AWS tags, so it integrates into existing workflows.

Clumio facilite la mise en conformité avec AWS

Intégralement développé sur la plateforme AWS, Clumio offre une évolutivité automatique ainsi qu’une surveillance et une assistance 24 h/24 et 7 j/7, le tout au sein d’une interface réactive et intuitive, avec un processus de mise en route rapide.

Planifiez une démonstrationdès aujourd’hui, ou cliquez ici pour tester Clumio au sein de votre entreprise.

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