End of support notice: On November 13, 2025, AWS will discontinue support
for AWS Elemental MediaStore. After November 13, 2025, you will no longer be able to access the MediaStore console
or MediaStore resources. For more information, visit this
blog post
Data protection in AWS Elemental MediaStore
The AWS shared responsibility model
For data protection purposes, we recommend that you protect AWS account credentials and set up individual users with AWS IAM Identity Center or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). That way, each user is given only the permissions necessary to fulfill their job duties. We also recommend that you secure your data in the following ways:
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Use multi-factor authentication (MFA) with each account.
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Use SSL/TLS to communicate with AWS resources. We require TLS 1.2 and recommend TLS 1.3.
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Set up API and user activity logging with AWS CloudTrail. For information about using CloudTrail trails to capture AWS activities, see Working with CloudTrail trails in the AWS CloudTrail User Guide.
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Use AWS encryption solutions, along with all default security controls within AWS services.
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Use advanced managed security services such as Amazon Macie, which assists in discovering and securing sensitive data that is stored in Amazon S3.
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If you require FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules when accessing AWS through a command line interface or an API, use a FIPS endpoint. For more information about the available FIPS endpoints, see Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3
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We strongly recommend that you never put confidential or sensitive information, such as your customers' email addresses, into tags or free-form text fields such as a Name field. This includes when you work with MediaStore or other AWS services using the console, API, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs. Any data that you enter into tags or free-form text fields used for names may be used for billing or diagnostic logs. If you provide a URL to an external server, we strongly recommend that you do not include credentials information in the URL to validate your request to that server.
Data encryption
MediaStore encrypts containers and objects at rest using the industry standard AES-256 algorithm. We recommend that you use MediaStore to secure your data in the following ways:
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Create a container policy to control access rights to all folders and objects in that container. For more information, see Container policies in AWS Elemental MediaStore.
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Create a cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) policy to allow cross-origin access selectively to your MediaStore resources. With CORS, you can allow client web applications that are loaded in one domain to interact with resources in a different domain. For more information, see Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) policies in AWS Elemental MediaStore.
