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AWS Networking Cookbook

You're reading from   AWS Networking Cookbook Powerful recipes to overcome the pain points of optimizing your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787123243
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Satyajit Das Satyajit Das
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Jhalak Modi Jhalak Modi
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Preface 1. Getting Started with AWS Networking Components 2. Building Your Own Custom VPC FREE CHAPTER 3. VPC Advanced Components 4. Configuring Global Scale Infrastructure 5. Working with Infrastructure Automation 6. Working with Route 53 7. Cloud Security and Network Compliance 8. Troubleshooting and VPC Limits 9. Pricing of VPC and Related Components

Managing a Security Group

Security Group (SG) works as a virtual firewall that controls incoming traffic to protect resources hosted in AWS, such as EC2 and RDS, from unwanted access. The same SGs should be associated with services/resources having the same functionality and security requirements such as a cluster of web servers. SGs can span across different subnets in a VPC. SGs are stateful firewalls where you can define rules for a valid source, protocol, and port for incoming and outgoing traffic. Stateful meaning--if the connection from source to destination is allowed, the return path is also allowed. At least one SG needs to be attached to the resource at the time of resource creation. More than one SG can also be attached to a resource. The rules of an SG can be modified at any time and they will take effect immediately. An SG can be detached from the resource at any...

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AWS Networking Cookbook
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