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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)

Amazon Cognito


Amazon Cognito is a managed service that allows you to quickly add users for your mobile and web applications by providing in-built sign-in screens and authentication functionality. It handles security, authorization, and synchronization for your user management process across devices for all your users. You can use Cognito for authenticating your users through external identity providers including social identity providers, such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on. Cognito can also be used to authenticate identities for any solution that is compatible with SAML 2.0 standard. You can provide temporary security credentials with limited privileges to these authenticated users to securely access your AWS resources. The following figure illustrates three basic functionalities of Amazon Cognito: user management, authentication, and synchronization:

Figure 5: AWS Cognito overview

This service is primarily designed for developers to use in their web and mobile apps. It...