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AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide. - Second Edition

You're reading from AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide. - Second Edition

Product type Book

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788478793

Pages 358 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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System Administration

Author (1):

Yohan Wadia

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. What's New in AWS?

2. Managing EC2 with Systems Manager

3. Introducing Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic File System

4. Securing Workloads Using AWS WAF

5. Governing Your Environments Using AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config

6. Access Control Using AWS IAM and AWS Organizations

7. Transforming Application Development Using the AWS Code Suite

8. Messaging in the Cloud Using Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS

9. Powering Analytics Using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift

10. Orchestrating Data using AWS Data Pipeline

11. Connecting the World with AWS IoT and AWS Greengrass

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Index

Getting started with WAF

In this section, we are going to look at a few simple and easy-to-follow steps for getting started with AWS WAF. For demonstration purposes, we will be leveraging the same environments and application that we deployed from our previous chapter here, so, if you haven't gone through the use case, this might be a good time for a quick revisit!

In the previous chapter, we leveraged Elastic Beanstalk as well as Elastic File System services to deploy a scalable and highly available WordPress application over the internet. In this section, we will leverage the same setup and secure it even further by introducing AWS WAF into it. Why use WAF for our WordPress application? Well, the simplest answer is to completely abstract the security checks from the underlying web server instance(s), and instead place the security checks at the point of entry of our application, as depicted in the following diagram:

To get started, you will first need to ensure that your WordPress application...

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Authors (1)

Yohan Wadia

Yohan Wadia is a client-focused evangelist and technologist with an experience of more than 8 years in the cloud industry. He focuses on helping customers succeed with cloud adoption. As a technical consultant, he guides customers with pragmatic solutions that leverage cloud computing through either Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and make practical and business sense.

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