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Mastering AWS Security

By : Albert Anthony
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Mastering AWS Security

By: Albert Anthony

Overview of this book

Mastering AWS Security starts with a deep dive into the fundamentals of the shared security responsibility model. This book tells you how you can enable continuous security, continuous auditing, and continuous compliance by automating your security in AWS with the tools, services, and features it provides. Moving on, you will learn about access control in AWS for all resources. You will also learn about the security of your network, servers, data and applications in the AWS cloud using native AWS security services. By the end of this book, you will understand the complete AWS Security landscape, covering all aspects of end - to -end software and hardware security along with logging, auditing, and compliance of your entire IT environment in the AWS cloud. Lastly, the book will wrap up with AWS best practices for security.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

VPC features and benefits

AWS VPC offers many features and benefits to secure your resources in your own virtual network on the cloud. You can scale your resources and select resources as per your requirement in VPC just like you do in AWS, with the same level of reliability and additional security. Let's look at these features and benefits.

Multiple connectivity options

Your AWS VPC can be connected to a variety of resources, such as the internet, your on-premise data center, other VPCs in your AWS account, or VPCs in other AWS accounts; once connected, you can make your resources accessible or inaccessible in your VPC from outside of your VPC based on your requirement.

You can allow your instances in your VPC to connect...