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AWS Administration ??? The  Definitive Guide

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782173755
Pages 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Toc

Table of Contents (17) Chapters close

AWS Administration – The Definitive Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introducing Amazon Web Services 2. Security and Access Management 3. Images and Instances 4. Security, Storage, Networking, and Lots More! 5. Building Your Own Private Clouds Using Amazon VPC 6. Monitoring Your AWS Infrastructure 7. Manage Your Applications with Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing 8. Database-as-a-Service Using Amazon RDS 9. Working with Simple Storage Service 10. Extended AWS Services for Your Applications Index

Security and clouds


Security is a core requirement for any application whether it is hosted on an on-premise data center or a cloud such as AWS. It is a fundamental service that protects your applications and data from a variety of cyber-attacks, security breaches, accidental or deliberate data deletions, theft, and much more.

Most modern cloud providers offer security in a very similar way to traditional on-premise data centers with the same amount of control and compliance. The only difference is that in a traditional data center, you would have to deal with the complexities and costs of securing the hardware, whereas on the cloud, this task is performed by the cloud provider itself. This difference not only saves on overhead costs that every organization has to bear, but also reduces the time and effort it takes to monitor and protect all those resources.

Is AWS really secure

So the obvious question lingering in your mind right now must be, ok, we signed up for AWS and now are going to run...

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