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Designing AWS Environments [Video]

By : Wayde Gilchrist
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Designing AWS Environments [Video]

By: Wayde Gilchrist

Overview of this book

<p>Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides trusted, cloud-based solutions to help you meet your business needs. Running your solutions in the AWS Cloud can help you get your applications up and running faster while providing the security to meet your compliance requirements.&nbsp;</p> <p>This course begins by familiarizing you with the key capabilities to architect and host applications, websites, and services on AWS. We’ll explain the available options for virtual instances and demonstrate launching and connecting to them. Using practical examples, you will be able design and deploy networking and hosting solutions for large deployments. Finally, the course focuses on security and important elements of scalability and high availability.</p> <h1>Style and Approach</h1> <p>This course follows a step-by-step practical approach that shows you how to design robust large infrastructures using AWS. You will be able to make trade-offs in your decision-making and keep the implications and intricacies of cloud design in mind. It follows a unique approach that also pushes your confidence to the next level.</p>
Table of Contents (5 chapters)
Chapter 5
Creating a VPC
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Section 4
Securing Your VPC
Relying solely on Security Groups for our firewall increases the likelihood that an accidental misconfiguration could leave our databases and other private resources exposed to hackers. Best security practice mandates that we should backup our security groups with an additional layer of security. - Network ACLS provide an additional security layer at the subnet boundary - Bastion Instances can be configured to allow SSH or RDP to private instances - Our NACLs and Security Groups can be configured to allow connections through a Bastion