AWS Cloud

AWS Cloud, offered by Amazon Web Services, is an enterprise cloud platform that provides on-demand infrastructure, storage, and application services. It enables organizations to build and scale systems without managing physical hardware, while offering capabilities for security, monitoring, and data management across distributed environments.

As organizations adopt AWS, data and workloads are spread across services, regions, and teams. This increases flexibility but also creates complexity in maintaining visibility and control over how data is stored, accessed, and processed. In the context of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, organizations remain accountable for ensuring that personal data hosted on AWS is handled securely, accessed only by authorized entities, and used within defined purposes.

In practice, gaps emerge when:

• Data is distributed across multiple services without unified visibility.
• Access policies are misconfigured or inconsistently applied.
• There is limited traceability of data movement across services.
• Responsibility for compliance is assumed to rest entirely with the cloud provider.

To address this, organizations implement governance layers that provide visibility into data flows, enforce access controls, and maintain traceability across cloud environments. This ensures that data usage remains controlled and aligned with compliance requirements. Within Privy, this is supported through capabilities such as data mapping, consent lifecycle management, and audit trails, enabling organizations to maintain control over personal data across AWS environments.