“Encryption in transit” is no longer a “nice-to-have” — it’s a mandatory requirement for PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and modern Zero-Trust architectures. But how do you prove to an auditor that every packet in your VPC is encrypted? You don’t do it with spreadsheets; you do it with VPC Flow Logs. By leveraging the new ${encryption-status} field and VPC Encryption Controls, you can audit, verify, and enforce hardware-level encryption across your entire infrastructure with a single click. VPC Encryption Controls is a security and compliance feature introduced by AWS to provide centralized visibility and authoritative control over the encryption of data moving within and between your Virtual Private Clouds. Historically, verifying that all “east-west” traffic (traffic between your internal instances, load balancers, and databases) was encrypted was a manual and complex task, often involving messy spreadsheets and custom auditing scripts.…