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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

You're reading from   AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide Build your cloud security knowledge and expertise as an AWS Certified Security Specialist (SCS-C01)

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789534474
Length 558 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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 FREE CHAPTER 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

Amazon CloudWatch

CloudWatch is probably the most common monitoring service provided by AWS. It collates and collects metrics across a variety of your resources running in your AWS account. This allows you to monitor your resources' performance over time and configure and respond to alerts that meet customized and defined thresholds.

On top of this metric monitoring, you can use CloudWatch along with a unified cloud agent to collect logs of your applications running on EC2 instances and a number of different AWS services. This log's data can be read from within CloudWatch, providing you with a real-time logstream of data. Using CloudWatch Logs in this way essentially allows you access to a central repository of real-time log data.

More on Amazon CloudWatch will be discussed in Chapter 12, Implementing Logging Mechanisms.

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