HIPAA Compliance
Meeting HIPAA Security Rule requirements for administrative, physical, and technical safeguards across your AWS environment.
AWS Security Consulting
AWS Cloud Security for Healthcare
We design HIPAA-compliant security architectures on AWS that protect patient health information while enabling the data sharing and interoperability that modern healthcare demands.
- A signal or assessment finding arrives.
- Detection stays on, not a one-off scan.
- Assess ranks the finding and its blast radius.
- Containment changes IAM, network, or workload scope.
- Production changes wait for a named owner and a change window.
- The posture that remains is the one you can show an auditor.
Key Challenges We Solve
PHI Protection
Protecting Protected Health Information at rest, in transit, and in use with encryption, access controls, and data loss prevention.
Interoperability Security
Securing FHIR APIs and health data exchanges while maintaining compliance with CMS interoperability requirements.
Third-Party Risk
Managing BAA requirements and security controls for third-party integrations, EHR connections, and partner data sharing.
Our Approach
HIPAA Reference Architecture
Pre-validated architecture patterns using HIPAA-eligible AWS services with encryption, logging, and access controls built in.
Automated Compliance Checks
AWS Config rules and Security Hub standards that continuously validate HIPAA controls and alert on deviations.
Incident Response Playbooks
Automated breach detection and response workflows using GuardDuty, Step Functions, and SNS — meeting HIPAA breach notification timelines.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does AWS sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA)?
Yes. AWS signs a BAA that covers HIPAA-eligible services. The BAA is available through AWS Artifact and covers over 100 services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and many more.
Which AWS services are HIPAA eligible?
Over 100 AWS services are HIPAA eligible, including compute (EC2, Lambda, ECS), storage (S3, EBS, EFS), database (RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora), and analytics (Athena, Glue, QuickSight). The full list is maintained in the AWS HIPAA Eligible Services Reference.
How do we encrypt PHI on AWS?
Use KMS-managed encryption keys for data at rest (S3 SSE-KMS, RDS encryption, EBS encryption) and TLS 1.2+ for data in transit. For the strongest protection, use customer-managed KMS keys with key policies that restrict access to authorized roles only.
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