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Published in Apr 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837633982

Length 614 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Python

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AWS

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IT Certification

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Adam Book

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Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1:AWS Security Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: AWS Shared Responsibility Model FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Fundamental AWS Services

4. Chapter 3: Understanding Attacks on Cloud Environments

5. Section 2:Incident Response

6. Chapter 4: Incident Response

7. Chapter 5: Managing Your Environment with AWS Config

8. Chapter 6: Event Management with Security Hub and GuardDuty

9. Section 3:Logging and Monitoring

10. Chapter 7: Logs Generated by AWS Services

11. Chapter 8: CloudWatch and CloudWatch Metrics

12. Chapter 9: Parsing Logs and Events with AWS Native Tools

13. Section 4:Infrastructure Security

14. Chapter 10: Configuring Infrastructure Security

15. Chapter 11: Securing EC2 Instances

16. Chapter 12: Managing Key Infrastructure

17. Chapter 13: Access Management

18. Section 5:Identity and Access Management

19. Chapter 14: Working with Access Policies

20. Chapter 15: Federated and Mobile Access

21. Chapter 16: Using Active Directory Services to Manage Access

22. Section 6:Data Protection

23. Chapter 17: Protecting Data in Flight and at Rest

24. Chapter 18: Securely Connecting to Your AWS Environment

25. Chapter 19: Using Certificates and Certificate Services in AWS

26. Chapter 20: Managing Secrets Securely in AWS

27. Chapter 21: Accessing the Online Practice Resources

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Running Queries with Amazon Athena

With so much valuable data within CloudTrail and other logs, finding effective ways to query the data for specific entries is always a top priority. The Amazon Athena service makes running ad hoc queries on extensive datasets much more straightforward. When discussing storing logs on the S3 service earlier in the chapter, one of the feature’s shortcomings was the ability to query the logs. This gap in capabilities is filled by using the Amazon Athena service.

Amazon Athena is a serverless service that allows you to quickly analyze data stored within Amazon S3, such as your CloudTrail logs. Athena does this by using an interactive query service and letting you write your queries using standard Structured Query Language (SQL). As a result, it is an efficient service to help you scan massive datasets.

The following are some key facts to understand about Amazon Athena:

Athena separates storage from compute by utilizing Amazon S3 for...

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