Regulatory Compliance (AWS Artifact)

Will the application you plan to run on AWS be processing credit card transactions? What about private health records, personal employment histories, or restricted military information? Are you sure the AWS security and reliability environment is good enough to meet the regulatory standards required by your industry and government?

Those are questions you’ll need to answer before you dive too deeply into your deployment planning. But where can you find authoritative answers? AWS Artifact.

At this point, you may be wondering, what’s with the name Artifact? Well, the service home page is a set of links to documents describing various regulatory standards and how AWS meets them. Each of those documents is referred to by Amazon as an artifact.

When you choose a link, you’re first asked to agree to the terms and conditions included in an AWS Artifact nondisclosure agreement. When you choose the agreement box, the actual artifact will...