Digital Media Disposed

Does your organisation ensure that all used digital media (that may have stored data) is disposed of securely and are certificates of destruction obtained?

Media storage devices used to store customer data are classified by AWS as critical and treated accordingly, as high impact, throughout their life-cycles. AWS has exacting standards on how to install, service, and eventually destroy the devices when they are no longer useful. When a storage device has reached the end of its useful life, AWS decommissions media using techniques detailed in NIST 800-88. Media that stored customer data is not removed from AWS control until it has been securely decommissioned.