HIPAA Eligible AWS Services deployed in AWS Wavelength can now be used to process Protected Health Information

Posted on: Sep 15, 2020

HIPAA Eligible AWS Services deployed in AWS Wavelength can now be used to process Protected Health Information. If you have an executed Business Associate Addendum (BAA) with AWS, you can use HIPAA Eligible AWS Services deployed in AWS Wavelength to process encrypted Protected Health Information (PHI). For more information, please visit our page on HIPAA compliance. If you plan to process, store, or transmit PHI and do not have an executed BAA from AWS, please contact us for more information.

Wavelength embeds AWS compute and storage services at the edge of communications service providers’ 5G networks while providing seamless access to cloud services running in an AWS Region. AWS Wavelength minimizes the latency and network hops required to connect to an application hosted in AWS from 5G devices.