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Amazon Verified Permissions is now HIPAA eligible

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The article announces that Amazon Verified Permissions (AVP) is now a HIPAA-eligible service, enabling healthcare and life sciences organizations subject to HIPAA to use it for permissions management.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • AVP is a permissions management and fine-grained authorization service for applications
  • It uses the Cedar policy language to define policy-based access controls using roles and attributes
  • Example use case: Determining if a doctor is permitted to access a patient's records
  • Organizations with a HIPAA Business Associate Addendum (BAA) in place with AWS can now use AVP for HIPAA-regulated workloads
  • It can be easily integrated with API Gateway for permissions management
  • Links to additional information on HIPAA-eligible AWS services and AVP


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