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PDPA and Cloud Compliance: What Singapore SMEs Need to Know
How the Personal Data Protection Act applies to your AWS footprint, and how to stay audit-ready without the spreadsheet chaos.
The Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) in Singapore places clear obligations on organisations that collect, use, or disclose personal data. For SMEs running workloads in the cloud — especially on AWS — this means your infrastructure choices and access controls directly affect your compliance posture.
Why cloud matters for PDPA
PDPA’s Protection and Accountability obligations require you to secure personal data and be able to demonstrate that you’ve done so. In practice, that means:
- Knowing where personal data is stored (which buckets, which regions). - Limiting who can access it (IAM, security groups, encryption). - Being able to show auditors a clear picture of controls and gaps.
Many teams still rely on spreadsheets and manual checks. That’s error-prone and doesn’t scale. A structured view of your cloud resources, mapped to PDPA-relevant controls, makes it easier to close gaps and produce evidence when needed.
Where BobSentry fits
BobSentry scans your AWS environment (read-only), builds a risk and relationship model, and maps findings to PDPA-relevant areas: access control, encryption, logging, and data residency. You get a compliance score, gap analysis, and remediation steps — so you can prioritise what matters for PDPA and avoid last-minute scrambles before an audit.
If you’re in Singapore and want to see how your current cloud setup stacks up against PDPA expectations, start with a free cloud risk audit.