How AWS improves active defense to empower customers

AWS is enhancing its active defense capabilities to improve cloud security across multiple dimensions, focusing on proactive threat prevention and customer protection.

• Prevented over 4 million malware infection attempts across 315,000 EC2 instances
• Blocked hundreds of millions of CVE exploit attempts daily, reducing attacks by 55% in 12 months
• Prevented 167 million daily malicious scanning connections seeking exposed AWS access keys
• Stopped over 943 million attempts to encrypt customer S3 objects during ransomware threat activity
• Collaborated with customers to deactivate over 30,000 exposed credentials

AWS employs advanced techniques like honeypots, network analysis, and threat intelligence to protect customers and the broader internet from cyber threats, integrating these protections directly into AWS services.