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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)

Chapter 5. 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 on the security of these applications or the AWS environment where these applications are running. As...