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AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS

By : Albert Anthony
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AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS

By: Albert Anthony

Overview of this book

With organizations moving their workloads, applications, and infrastructure to the cloud at an unprecedented pace, security of all these resources has been a paradigm shift for all those who are responsible for security; experts, novices, and apprentices alike. This book focuses on using native AWS security features and managed AWS services to help you achieve continuous security. Starting with an introduction to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to secure your AWS VPC, you will quickly explore various components that make up VPC such as subnets, security groups, various gateways, and many more. You will also learn to protect data in the AWS platform for various AWS services by encrypting and decrypting data in AWS. You will also learn to secure web and mobile applications in AWS cloud. This book is ideal for all IT professionals, system administrators, security analysts, solution architects, and chief information security officers who are responsible for securing workloads in AWS for their organizations. This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. This book is repurposed for this specific learning experience from material from Packt's Mastering AWS Security, written by Albert Anthony.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Summary


The VPC is responsible for securing your network, including your infrastructure on the cloud, and that makes this AWS service extremely critical for mastering security in AWS. In this lesson, you learned the basics of VPC, including features, benefits, and most common use cases.

We went through the various components of VPC and you learned how to configure all of them to create a custom VPC. Alongside, we looked at components that make VPC secure, such as routing, security groups, and so on.

We also looked at multiple connectivity options, such as a private, shared, or dedicated connection provided by VPC. These connectivity options enable us to create a hybrid cloud environment, a large connected internal network for your organization, and many such secure, highly available environments to address many more scenarios.

Lastly, you learned about the limits of various VPC components and we looked at an exhaustive list of VPC best practices.

In the next lesson, we will look at ways to secure data in AWS: data security in AWS in a nutshell. You will learn about encrypting data in transit and at rest. We will also look at securing data using various AWS services.