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AWS Security Cookbook

You're reading from   AWS Security Cookbook Practical solutions for managing security policies, monitoring, auditing, and compliance with AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838826253
Length 440 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Managing AWS Accounts with IAM and Organizations 2. Securing Data on S3 with Policies and Techniques FREE CHAPTER 3. User Pools and Identity Pools with Cognito 4. Key Management with KMS and CloudHSM 5. Network Security with VPC 6. Working with EC2 Instances 7. Web Security Using ELBs, CloudFront, and WAF 8. Monitoring with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Config 9. Compliance with GuardDuty, Macie, and Inspector 10. Additional Services and Practices for AWS Security 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using KMS to encrypt data in EBS

In this recipe, we will use KMS keys to encrypt EBS volumes. EBS is a block storage service designed to be used as the storage system for EC2 instances.

Getting ready

We need a working AWS account to complete this recipe.

How to do it...

We can encrypt an EBS storage volume while creating an EC2 instance as follows:

  1. Go to the EC2 dashboard and click on Instances from the left sidebar. Click on the Launch Instance button at the top of the page, select Amazon Linux 2 AMI, set Type to t2.micro, and click Next: Configure Instance Details...
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