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Cloud Security Automation

You're reading from   Cloud Security Automation Get to grips with automating your cloud security on AWS and OpenStack

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788627863
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prashant Priyam Prashant Priyam
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Preface 1. Introduction to Cloud Security FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding the World of Cloud Automation 3. Identity and Access Management in the Cloud 4. Cloud Network Security 5. Cloud Storage and Data Security 6. Cloud Platform Security 7. Private Cloud Security 8. Automating Cloud Security 9. Cloud Compliance 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

AWS Redshift 


Amazon Redshift is a petabyte data warehousing solution, available as PaaS, where the complete underlying infrastructure is managed by AWS.

In AWS Redshift, we create a cluster that combines a set of nodes. Once you have a Redshift cluster, you can start running queries to get insight from your database. Redshift offers you very fast query performance for data analysis.

As with other services, AWS Redshift can be managed using console, SDK, and APIs.

Now, let's see how we can secure the Redshift cluster. As we know, in Redshift too, we have databases. First, let's see how to secure a database in Redshift and then how to configure security for a Redshift database.

Security in Redshift

In Redshift, you can enable encryption for a database to ensure the security of data-at-rest. When you enable encryption for Redshift cluster, it automatically encrypts data block, metadata of systems, and its snapshots as well.

Encryption is an optional setting for Redshift but you must be careful while...

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