EC2 is the most widely used of the compute services that AWS offers within its library. This is largely due to its vast variety of instance family types offering different performance and cost options. With this wide acceptance of EC2 by millions of customers, there is an inherent need to ensure that we are able to secure the resource when in operation to prevent it from being compromised by those with malicious intent.
In this chapter, we will be looking into a number of security points relating to EC2 and how they can be configured and implemented. We will be studying the following topics:
- Performing a vulnerability scan using Amazon Inspector
- Creating and securing EC2 key pairs
- Isolating instances for forensic investigation
- Using AWS Systems Manager to administer EC2 instances
