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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)

AWS Security Best Practices

Security at AWS is job zero. AWS is architected to be one of the most secure cloud environments with a host of built-in security features that allows it to eliminate most of the security overhead that is traditionally associated with IT infrastructure. Security is considered a shared responsibility between AWS and AWS customers where both of them work together to achieve their security objectives. We have looked at various services, tools, features, and third-party solutions provided by AWS to secure your assets on AWS. All customers share the following benefits of AWS security without any additional charges or resources:

  • Keeping your data safe
  • Meeting compliance requirements
  • Saving money with in-built AWS security features
  • Scaling quickly without compromising security

An enterprise running business-critical applications on AWS cannot afford to compromise...