The BAA checklist: what to check before sending PHI to a vendor
Solomon Amos · 9 Sep 2026 · 11 min read
HIPAA evidence
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals
CertReports found no public HIPAA evidence for Amazon Web Services as of unknown date. This does not mean the vendor is non-compliant. It means CertReports found no public evidence at the last check.
No evidence records for HIPAA. CertReports re-checks registries daily to weekly and vendor pages every 30 to 90 days.
No HIPAA certification exists. HHS declined to create certification criteria in the Security Rule preamble (68 FR 8334, 20 February 2003). The artefact that matters is a signed business associate agreement (BAA); "HIPAA compliant" on a marketing page is a claim.
Read the HIPAA guide and browse all vendors with evidenceThere is no HIPAA certification, so no vendor can be "HIPAA certified". The artefact that matters is a business associate agreement (BAA). CertReports has no public evidence that Amazon Web Services offers a BAA as of unknown date.
CertReports has not found a public statement on BAA availability as of unknown date. Ask the vendor directly and check their trust centre.
Every state carries a capture date, a source and a snapshot link. Registry rows come from the official registry data; vendor statements come from the vendor’s own page or trust centre; nothing is inferred. Vendors can dispute any row and corrections ship within two business days.
Similar vendors (shared product tags or the Cloud and hosting category) whose HIPAA row is verified or vendor-stated, ranked by similarity.
No Cloud and hosting vendor has HIPAA evidence in the index yet.
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