AWS Introduces Compliance Controls to the Backup Service Amazon Web Services (AWS), has added a new feature to its managed back-up service that allows organizations to manage their backup compliance. The company announced this week that AWS Backup Audit manager is now available in the AWS Backup service. AWS developer advocate Steve Rogers described the new tool as a way to “monitor, evaluate the compliance status your backups to comply with business and regulatory requirements” and to “generate reports to help demonstrate compliance to regulators and auditors.” Although the AWS Backup service automates basic backup tasks for users, they are still responsible for ensuring that backup policies are being followed and preparing digestible reports to help auditors. AWS claims Audit Manager makes it easier to automate both of these tasks. Rogers stated that the feature allows users to “generate automatic daily reporting.” It also includes five pre-built controls that can be switched on by users to ensure that backups meet regulatory and compliance requirements. Audit Manager includes five control templates: