Security pillar

The security pillar provides AWS recommendations that help you meet your business and regulatory requirements. The practices in this pillar inform architectures that protect health data, control access, and respond automatically to security events. 

Healthcare is a highly regulated industry in most geographies. This is in part because health data contains sensitive information about individuals’ medical history, health behaviors, socioeconomic status, and financial information. Healthcare entities have a responsibility to keep health data safe and highly available for appropriate use.  This responsibility of healthcare entities is formalized by governmental regulations across the globe that stipulate how health data must be protected. Therefore, it is important that a Well-Architected security and compliance program is used by healthcare entities when they move workloads to the cloud.  A Well-Architected security and compliance program helps organizations design and operate workloads while meeting the necessary regulations, aligning with the proper frameworks, and keeping health data safe.