Introducing VPC encryption controls: Enforce encryption in transit within and across VPCs in a Region

Today, we’re announcing virtual private cloud (VPC) encryption controls, a new capability of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) that helps you audit and enforce encryption in transit for all traffic within and across VPCs in a Region.

Organizations across financial services, healthcare, government, and retail face significant operational complexity in maintaining encryption compliance across their cloud infrastructure. Traditional approaches require piecing together multiple solutions and managing complex public key infrastructure (PKI), while manually tracking encryption across different network paths using spreadsheets—a process prone to human error that becomes increasingly challenging as infrastructure scales.

Although AWS Nitro based instances automatically encrypt traffic at the hardware layer without affecting performance, organizations need simple mechanisms to extend these capabilities across their entire VPC infrastructure. This is particularly important for demonstrating compliance with regulatory frameworks such as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS ...