Infrastructure security in Amazon Comprehend Medical

As a managed service, Amazon Comprehend Medical is protected by the AWS global network security procedures that are described in the Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Processes whitepaper.

To access Comprehend Medical through the network, you use AWS published API calls. Clients must support Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 or later. We recommend TLS 1.2 or later. Clients must also support cipher suites with perfect forward secrecy (PFS), such as Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (DHE) or Elliptic Curve Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (ECDHE). Most modern systems, such as Java 7 and later, support these modes.

Additionally, requests must be signed by using an access key ID and a secret access key that is associated with an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principal. Or you can use the AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) to generate temporary security credentials to sign requests.