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Effective DevOps with AWS

You're reading from   Effective DevOps with AWS Implement continuous delivery and integration in the AWS environment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789539974
Length 384 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Giuseppe Borgese Giuseppe Borgese
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Nathaniel Felsen Nathaniel Felsen
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Yogesh Raheja Yogesh Raheja
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Cloud and DevOps Revolution FREE CHAPTER 2. Deploying Your First Web Application 3. Treating Your Infrastructure as Code 4. Infrastructure as Code with Terraform 5. Adding Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 6. Scaling Your Infrastructure 7. Running Containers in AWS 8. Hardening the Security of Your AWS Environment 9. Assessment 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Hardening the Security of Your AWS Environment

In this chapter, we will focus on how to secure our AWS account and application. The cloud and security are two concepts that don't always go together. This is not because of the cloud's nature, but because of the idea that a server on the premises is more secure than a server on the cloud. This is because you know exactly where an on-premise server is, and how the connections to it reach there. The purpose of this chapter is to look at some practical tools and information to demonstrate that a well-managed AWS cloud can be more secure than an on-premise environment.
First we will look at how to secure access for our IAM users. Then, we will look at how to enable logging on for IAM usage with CloudTrail, and, at the network level, with VPC Flow Logs. Creating the right subnets is a crucial step to undertake before placing...

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