The State of AWS Security

Learn 5 facts about the implementation of security best practices in real-world AWS environments.

In the cloud, securing identities and workloads is both paramount and complex. Inventories of AWS customer security breaches help us learn from publicly disclosed incidents—but until now, not much concrete data has been shared around the usage of security mechanisms that could have helped prevent these incidents.

For this report, we examined real-world data from a sample of more than 600 organizations and thousands of AWS accounts that use Datadog’s Cloud Security Management to understand the current state of AWS security.