Summary

In this chapter, we laid the groundwork to enable you to understand how security is implemented in AWS. As we saw in the chapter, the shared responsibility model is a fundamental pillar. You saw how some components of security are the responsibility of AWS, and some parts are the customer's responsibility. You learned about six security pillars in which AWS security and compliance services are divided.

You then looked at the most basic and fundamental security service in IAM. You dive deep into AWS IAM and review concepts such as users, groups, permissions, roles, and policies and how they are connected to each other. Further, you briefly learned about security services in each security pillar with available resources to explore. Finally, in the last section of the chapter, you learned about security best practices and how to make your cloud environment even more secure.

Hopefully, after completing this chapter, you feel more confident about how AWS can be leveraged to write...