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Mastering AWS Security

You're reading from   Mastering AWS Security Create and maintain a secure cloud ecosystem

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293723
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Albert Anthony Albert Anthony
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Overview of Security in AWS 2. AWS Identity and Access Management FREE CHAPTER 3. AWS Virtual Private Cloud 4. Data Security in AWS 5. Securing Servers in AWS 6. Securing Applications in AWS 7. Monitoring in AWS 8. Logging and Auditing in AWS 9. AWS Security Best Practices

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about various features and services available in AWS to secure your servers, most notably, EC2 instances. We went through best practices to follow for EC2 security.

Alongside, we dove deep into various measures to follow for all use cases for securing your EC2 instances. These measures range from using IAM roles for all applications running on EC2 instances to managing operating system access to building threat protection layers in your multi-layered architectures and testing security for your EC2 instances with prior permission from AWS support.

You learned about Amazon Inspector, an automated security assessment managed service that integrates security assessment, identification, and remediation with development. This results in faster deployment and better agility for your development process. You learned about the various components of...

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