Auditing in AWS

I find it important to understand any environment that you are auditing, especially cloud platforms with unique product offerings. Knowledge of AWS is needed for conducting thorough security audits and ensuring you can accurately assess an AWS deployment’s compliance and security posture.

AWS’s global infrastructure is a complex orchestration of physical and logical components designed to provide a robust, scalable, and secure cloud environment. Here are some of the key elements you will likely find in an AWS deployment:

• Regions, Local Zones, and availability zones (AZs): AWS hosts its services across different geographical regions worldwide. Each region is a separate geographic area designed to be completely independent. Each region has multiple isolated locations known as AZs. Each AZ comprises one or more data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity to ensure fault tolerance and high availability. Understanding the interplay...