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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By : Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
Book Image

Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By: Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

With this Learning Path, you’ll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud. You’ll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It’ll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia • AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan • Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Securing Workloads Using AWS WAF

In the previous chapter, we learned a lot about how to leverage Amazon Elastic Beanstalk as well as Amazon Elastic File System to build and deploy highly scalable and available applications with the utmost of ease! However, there is one critical aspect that we didn't talk too much about in the previous chapter, and that is, of course, security! "How do I safeguard my applications and workloads against malicious software and threats?" This is exactly the question we will try and answer through a combination of two simple, yet very powerful, AWS services, namely AWS Shield and AWS Web Application Firewall, or WAF.

Keeping this in mind, let's have a quick look at the various topics that we will be covering in this chapter:

  • Introducing AWS WAF and how it works
  • Securing our WordPress site by leveraging WAF and using web ACLs
  • Learning about additional WAF conditions for protection against cross-site scripting and SQL injections
  • Automated deployment and configuration...