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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

Monitoring in AWS

Monitoring is an integral part of the information technology environment in all organizations. Monitoring refers to collecting, tracking, and analyzing metrics related to the health and performance of resources, such as infrastructure components and applications, to ensure all resources in an environment are providing services at an acceptable level, that is, that a threshold is set up by resource owners or system administrators. Monitoring these resources allows you to take proactive action in the event of the failure or degradation of a service due to any reason such as a security breach or a DDoS attack. Monitoring is a preventive security measure.

A monitoring service needs to have metrics to monitor, graphs to visualize these metrics and trends, alarms for metrics when thresholds are breached, features to notify and take actions when the state is alarm and...

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