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The AWS Startup Guide to Continuous SOC 2

Stop treating AWS security as a point-in-time cleanup. Liance turns your AWS signals into live evidence that stays audit-ready every hour of every day.

Context

AWS Audit
Surface

For most modern startups, AWS is more than just hosting, it is the primary evidence source for over 70% of SOC 2 security controls.

Liance connects directly to your AWS accounts to monitor for drift across IAM, S3, RDS, and CloudTrail. Instead of manually taking screenshots of your console, Liance continuously pulls fresh signals and maps them to the right Trust Services Criteria.

AWS Infrastructure

Identity & Access Management

AWS IAM is the largest surface area for most audits. Liance monitors for MFA drift, root account usage, and over-privileged roles in real-time.

Required Evidence & Verification

  • MFA Enforcement on all IAM Users

    Verified via live CloudWatch and IAM signals.

  • No active AWS Root access keys

    Verified via live CloudWatch and IAM signals.

  • Strict least-privilege role mapping

    Verified via live CloudWatch and IAM signals.

AWS Infrastructure

Logging & Monitoring

CloudTrail and CloudWatch are your audit trail. We verify that logging is global, immutable, and actively feeding your evidence graph.

Required Evidence & Verification

  • Global CloudTrail logging enabled

    Verified via live CloudWatch and IAM signals.

  • S3 Bucket logging for sensitive data

    Verified via live CloudWatch and IAM signals.

  • VPC Flow Logs for network traffic

    Verified via live CloudWatch and IAM signals.

AWS Infrastructure

Data Protection

Encryption at rest and in transit is a mandatory criteria. Liance checks for unencrypted S3 buckets and EBS volumes automatically.

Required Evidence & Verification

  • Default AES-256 S3 Encryption

    Verified via live CloudWatch and IAM signals.

  • EBS Volume encryption enforcement

    Verified via live CloudWatch and IAM signals.

  • RDS instance encryption at rest

    Verified via live CloudWatch and IAM signals.

Build on
AWS

Liance identifies your biggest AWS-specific gaps in under 15 minutes.

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