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Learning AWS

You're reading from   Learning AWS Design, build, and deploy responsive applications using AWS cloud components

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784394639
Length 236 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Cloud 101 – Understanding the Basics 2. Designing Cloud Applications – An Architect's Perspective FREE CHAPTER 3. AWS Components, Cost Model, and Application Development Environments 4. Designing for and Implementing Scalability 5. Designing for and Implementing High Availability 6. Designing for and Implementing Security 7. Deploying to Production and Going Live Index

Setting up security


This section looks at securing AWS infrastructure and the application. As the AWS security model is a shared one where Amazon is responsible for the security of the infrastructure such as facilities, hardware, network and some software like virtualization, host operating systems, and so on, you, as the user, are responsible for the security of your software stack, application, updates, data at rest and in transit, data stores, configuration properties, policies, credentials and the security of the AWS services being used.

AWS IAM – Securing your Infrastructure

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that enables you to manage users, groups, and user permissions within the AWS infrastructure. This allows for central control of users, groups, user access, and security credentials. As there are a plethora of services being offered by AWS, there is a need of securely accessing these services by authorized users. IAM defines concepts, constructs, and services...

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