

You should only terminate an account ANDB Addendum either when (a) you are sure that you have removed all personal information from the AWS account and you will no longer use the AWS account in connection with personal information or (b) you join that AWS account as a member account in an AWS organization that has an organizations ANDB Addendum. If you terminate an account ANDB Addendum under the Account agreements tab in AWS Artifact, the AWS account you used to sign into AWS Artifact will not be covered by an ANDB Addendum with AWS, unless it is also covered by an organizations ANDB Addendum (within the Organization agreements tab). You should only terminate a BAA for an organization if you are sure that you have removed all protected health information (PHI) from ALL accounts within such organization and will no longer use any of the accounts in connection with PHI. If you are a user of a management account and terminate an online BAA within the Organization agreements tab in AWS Artifact, all accounts within your organization will immediately be removed as HIPAA Accounts and, unless they are covered by individual account BAAs (within the Account agreements tab), they will no longer be covered by a BAA with AWS. You should only terminate a BAA if you are sure that you have removed all protected health information (PHI) from the account and will no longer use the account in connection with PHI. If you terminate an online BAA under the Account agreements tab in AWS Artifact, the account you used to sign into AWS will immediately cease to be a HIPAA Account and, unless it is also covered by an organization BAA (within the Organization agreements tab), it will no longer be covered by a BAA with AWS. Administrators have the flexibility to grant varying levels of permissions to IAM users based on the business needs of the users.įor a complete list of AWS Artifact permissions, refer to Controlling Access and Common Policies in the AWS Artifact User Guide.

If you’re not an administrator, you will need to be granted additional permissions to download, accept, and terminate agreements (usually, by your administrator). You can use IAM to grant access to your agreement stakeholders (such as members of your legal, privacy and/or compliance teams), so that those users can download, review, and accept agreements.

You should always review any agreement terms with your legal, privacy and/or compliance teams before accepting. If you are the administrator of the management account of an organization in AWS Organizations, you can accept and terminate agreements on behalf of the management account and all member accounts in your organization. If you’re an administrator of an AWS account, you automatically have permissions to download, accept, and terminate agreements for that account. This guidance helps determine the additional security controls you should put in place in order to support the specific use cases of your system. You can also use the responsibility guidance provided by some of the AWS audit artifacts to design your cloud architecture. You can provide the AWS audit artifacts to your auditors or regulators as evidence of AWS security controls. Often, the work of your team will either enable your enterprise to use AWS or ensure that your enterprise can continue to use AWS.

Required to or are interested in using audit artifacts to validate that your AWS implemented controls are operating effectively.In order to demonstrate the historical and current compliance of your AWS infrastructure (specific to the services that you use), auditors and regulators require you to provide evidence in the form of audit artifacts. Obligated to demonstrate the compliance of your cloud architectures during system design, development and audit life cycles.You should use AWS Artifact Reports if you are: AWS Artifact Reports can be used by all AWS customers to assess and validate the security and compliance of the AWS infrastructure and services that they use.
