To gain the most from this chapter, you should have an understanding of the following services:
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
You would have already come across some of these point already in this book; however, in this chapter, I want to focus on the key best practices and why you should be implementing them. This chapter will not focus on how to configure those services, it will explain the reasoning behind the importance of maintaining the best practice.