AWS at Locked Shields 2026: Strengthening Allied Cyber Defence at Scale
Public Sector Blog
This article highlights AWS's third consecutive year supporting Locked Shields 2026, NATO's premier live-fire cyber defence exercise.
- Over 4,000 cyber defenders from 40+ nations tested defenses against 8,000+ real-time cyberattacks
- AWS provided cloud infrastructure for more than half of virtual machines in exercise environment
- 50+ AWS accounts vended to teams with multiple applications to defend
- Blue teams used AWS-native security tools: Inspector, GuardDuty, Security Hub CSPM
- AWS infrastructure reported zero downtime and zero incidents across two days
- Red team creatively used 100+ CloudFront deployments for Command and Control infrastructure
- AWS supports 143 security standards and compliance certifications globally
- Partnership demonstrates commercial cloud capabilities strengthen collective NATO security
AWS reinforces its position as trusted cloud platform for NATO cyber defence training and national security operations.
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