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Mastering AWS Security

You're reading from   Mastering AWS Security Create and maintain a secure cloud ecosystem

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293723
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Albert Anthony Albert Anthony
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Preface 1. Overview of Security in AWS 2. AWS Identity and Access Management FREE CHAPTER 3. AWS Virtual Private Cloud 4. Data Security in AWS 5. Securing Servers in AWS 6. Securing Applications in AWS 7. Monitoring in AWS 8. Logging and Auditing in AWS 9. AWS Security Best Practices

AWS Virtual Private Cloud

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud or VPC, as it is popularly known, is a logically separated, isolated, and secure virtual network on the cloud, where you provision your infrastructure, such as Amazon RDS instances and Amazon EC2 instances. It is a core component of networking services on AWS cloud.

A VPC is dedicated to your AWS account. You can have one or more VPCs in your AWS account to logically isolate your resources from each other. By default, any resource provisioned in a VPC is not accessible by the internet unless you allow it through AWS-provided firewalls. A VPC spans an AWS region.

VPC is essentially your secure private cloud within AWS public cloud. It is specifically designed for users who require an extra layer of security to protect their resources on the cloud. It segregates your resources with other resources within your AWS account. You...

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