Enhancing API security with Amazon API Gateway TLS security policies | Amazon Web Services

Enhancing API security with Amazon API Gateway TLS security policies | Amazon Web Services

As compliance frameworks evolve and cryptographic standards advance, organizations are looking for additional controls to improve their cloud security posture. One of the neccesary controls is a more granular TLS configuration, for example when regulatory requirements mandate disabling older ciphers like CBC or enforcing TLS 1.3 as a minimum version.

In this post, you will learn how the new Amazon API Gateway’s enhanced TLS security policies help you meet standards such as PCI DSS, Open Banking, and FIPS, while strengthening how your APIs handle TLS negotiation. This new capability increases your security posture without adding operational complexity, and provides you with a single, consistent way to standardize TLS configuration across your API Gateway infrastructure.

Previously, API Gateway offered limited control over TLS configuration, and only for custom domain names. Default endpoints used fixed security policies, which meant you often had…

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