AWS Audit Manager

AWS Audit Manager is a fully managed governance, risk, and compliance service engineered to continuously and automatically collect evidence to help organizations assess their adherence to industry standards, internal controls, and regulatory frameworks. By mapping AWS usage, resource configurations, and cloud security controls directly to standard compliance frameworks—such as SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and NIST CSF—the service eliminates labor-intensive manual audit preparation and evidence gathering across distributed cloud environments.

The service operates by continuously ingesting configuration data, API activity logs, and compliance evaluation results from foundational AWS sources, including AWS Config, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Security Hub, and Amazon EC2. AWS Audit Manager automatically categorizes this telemetry into audit-ready evidence folders aligned with specific control objectives. Compliance officers and security auditors can customize existing frameworks or build tailored assessment templates matching proprietary internal control requirements. The platform provides structured collaboration workflows, allowing cross-functional audit teams to delegate control reviews, validate evidence integrity via immutable audit trails, and generate comprehensive, auditor-ready assessment summary reports with attached documentation.

Key enterprise use cases include automated compliance evidence collection, ongoing audit readiness verification, internal risk posture assessment, and rapid response to third-party regulatory inquiries. By transforming evidence collection from a periodic, disruptive exercise into an automated, continuous process, AWS Audit Manager enables organizations to sustain continuous compliance and streamline external audit engagements efficiently.