Reviewing Amazon EC2 best practices
How you use and configure EC2 is going depends on your use case. But some general EC2 best practices will ensure the security, reliability, durability, and availability of your applications and data. Let's delve into the recommended practices for handling security, storage, backup management, etc.
Access
Like with almost any AWS service, it's possible to manage the access and security of your EC2 instances, taking advantage of identity federation, policies, and IAM. You can create credential management policies and procedures to create, rotate, distribute, and revoke AWS access credentials.
You should assign the least privilege possible to all your users and roles like any other service. As they say in the military, your users should be on a need-to-know basis.
One advantage or disadvantage of using EC2 directly is that you are entirely in charge of managing the operating system changes. For that reason, ensure that you regularly maintain...