July 15, 2015 – AWS RDS is now HIPAA-eligible, along with a handful of other services that IT pros say have been on the watch list for healthcare organizations, though this is only the first of many steps for organizations seeking compliance.
The MySQL flavor of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Relational Database Service (RDS), DynamoDB and Elastic MapReduce were among services that became eligible for compliance with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) on July 8.
Attendees at an AWS Summit last week and other AWS customers waiting for HIPAA eligibility for RDS welcomed the news.