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AWS Certified Solutions Architect ??? Associate Guide

By : Gabriel Ramirez, Stuart Scott
Book Image

AWS Certified Solutions Architect ??? Associate Guide

By: Gabriel Ramirez, Stuart Scott

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently the leader in the public cloud market. With an increasing global interest in leveraging cloud infrastructure, the AWS Cloud from Amazon offers a cutting-edge platform for architecting, building, and deploying web-scale cloud applications. As more the rate of cloud platform adoption increases, so does the need for cloud certification. The AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate Guide is your one-stop solution to gaining certification. Once you have grasped what AWS and its prerequisites are, you will get insights into different types of AWS services such as Amazon S3, EC2, VPC, SNS, and more to get you prepared with core Amazon services. You will then move on to understanding how to design and deploy highly scalable applications. Finally, you will study security concepts along with the AWS best practices and mock papers to test your knowledge. By the end of this book, you will not only be fully prepared to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam but also capable of building secure and reliable applications.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
22
Mock Test 1
23
Mock Test 2

Web Application Security

Applying security within AWS requires a layered approach, one of those layers can be centered around your web application infrastructure. Ensuring you implement controls and safeguards against your web applications is essential. By their very nature, they are external facing to the open public and with that comes additional threats and risks. As soon as your services are made available to the public, it will not be long before someone, somewhere will be trying to access your data and application in a malicious and harmful way. This chapter will focus on some of the methods and techniques that can be used to help mitigate such threats and exposures.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • AWS web application firewall (WAF)
  • AWS Shield
  • AWS Firewall Manager