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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

You're reading from  AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789534474
Pages 558 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Stuart Scott Stuart Scott
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Exam and Preparation
2. AWS Certified Security - Specialty Exam Coverage 3. Section 2: Security Responsibility and Access Management
4. AWS Shared Responsibility Model 5. Access Management 6. Working with Access Policies 7. Federated and Mobile Access 8. Section 3: Security - a Layered Approach
9. Securing EC2 Instances 10. Configuring Infrastructure Security 11. Implementing Application Security 12. DDoS Protection 13. Incident Response 14. Securing Connections to Your AWS Environment 15. Section 4: Monitoring, Logging, and Auditing
16. Implementing Logging Mechanisms 17. Auditing and Governance 18. Section 5: Best Practices and Automation
19. Automating Security Detection and Remediation 20. Discovering Security Best Practices 21. Section 6: Encryption and Data Security
22. Managing Key Infrastructure 23. Managing Data Security 24. Mock Tests 25. Assessments 26. Other Books You May Enjoy

CloudHSM clusters

When you deploy your CloudHSM, it is deployed as a cluster and, by default, this cluster size is 6 per account, per region. However, you can configure your cluster to have a single HSM all the way up to 28 HSMs. The more HSMs you have, the better the performance will be. To avoid complications with key synchronization, AWS CloudHSM manages that for you. If you add additional HSMs to your cluster after the original creation, AWS CloudHSM will take a backup of all of your users, policies, and, of course, your keys, and then deploy that backup onto the new HSM within your cluster.

For additional resiliency and high availability, you should place your HSMs within your cluster in different Availability Zones within your region. The cluster architecture of AWS CloudHSM can be summarized as shown here:

One important point to note is that when you configure your cluster and you specify your subnets/Availability Zones as locations, what in actual fact happens is an Elastic Network...

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