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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

By : Stuart Scott
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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

By: Stuart Scott

Overview of this book

AWS Certified Security – Specialty is a certification exam to validate your expertise in advanced cloud security. With an ever-increasing demand for AWS security skills in the cloud market, this certification can help you advance in your career. This book helps you prepare for the exam and gain certification by guiding you through building complex security solutions. From understanding the AWS shared responsibility model and identity and access management to implementing access management best practices, you'll gradually build on your skills. The book will also delve into securing instances and the principles of securing VPC infrastructure. Covering security threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks such as the DDoS attack, you'll discover how to mitigate these at different layers. You'll then cover compliance and learn how to use AWS to audit and govern infrastructure, as well as to focus on monitoring your environment by implementing logging mechanisms and tracking data. Later, you'll explore how to implement data encryption as you get hands-on with securing a live environment. Finally, you'll discover security best practices that will assist you in making critical decisions relating to cost, security,and deployment complexity. By the end of this AWS security book, you'll have the skills to pass the exam and design secure AWS solutions.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Exam and Preparation
3
Section 2: Security Responsibility and Access Management
8
Section 3: Security - a Layered Approach
15
Section 4: Monitoring, Logging, and Auditing
18
Section 5: Best Practices and Automation
21
Section 6: Encryption and Data Security

Red alert

Let me now take a look at the red alert from within the Service Limits category. To do so, select the alert from the main dashboard page:

The service check limit seen here is for VPC. As explained previously, the service limit checks for usage that is more than 80% of the service limit; in this case, it's the VPC limit. 

The alert criteria are either yellow (80% of the limit is reached), red (100% of the limit is reached), or blue (Trusted Advisor was unable to retrieve utilization or limits in one or more regions).

Based on this alert criteria, I can assume that I have five VPCs within a single region, and the recommended action to resolve this is to open a case in the Support Center to request a limit increase if I anticipate that I will require more than five VPCs in the affected region.

Looking at my list of VPCs, I can see that it is the eu-west-1 region that does indeed have five VPCs within it:

As we have seen, AWS Trusted Advisor is a great tool for...