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I am pleased to share with our healthcare clients and partners that you can now accept a single AWS Business Associate Addendum (BAA) for all accounts within your organization. Once this agreement is accepted, all current and future accounts created or added to your organization will automatically be included under the BAA.
At Amazon, we are consistently exploring ways to streamline compliance processes. This is why I’m excited about the launch of AWS Artifact Organization Agreements, designed to make the BAA process more efficient and enhance your experience when designating AWS accounts for HIPAA compliance. Previously, if you wanted to designate multiple AWS accounts, you would have to log in to each account individually to accept the BAA or send us an email. Now, an authorized master account user can accept the BAA once, thus automatically designating all existing and future member accounts in the organization as HIPAA-compliant for handling protected health information (PHI). This new feature addresses a common customer request for a quicker way to designate multiple HIPAA accounts and to ensure those accounts are covered under the BAA terms.
If you already have a BAA in place and wish to utilize this new capability, a master account user can accept the AWS Organizations BAA in AWS Artifact today. To begin, your organization must utilize AWS Organizations to manage your accounts, and you need to have “all features” enabled. Discover how to create an organization in this helpful blog post.
Once you are using AWS Organizations with all features enabled and have the necessary permissions, accepting the AWS Organizations BAA will only take about two minutes. We’ve prepared a video that guides you through the step-by-step process.
For organizations that prefer to manage HIPAA accounts on an individual basis, you can still do so. We have optimized the process for accepting an individual account BAA as well, which takes less than two minutes to designate a single account as a HIPAA account in AWS Artifact. You can watch the new video here to learn more about it.
As with all features in AWS Artifact, there are no additional costs to review, accept, and manage individual account BAAs or the new organization BAA. For further information, please visit the FAQ page.
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