Best Practices for AWS Security
While AWS provides a number of security services, it's essential to understand how to apply them to secure your application. The followings are some of the best security best practices:
- Use multiple AWS accounts to reduce the scope of impact - AWS accounts provide administrative isolation between workloads across different lines of business, regions, stages of production, and data classes. To minimize the security impact, you should use different AWS accounts for dev, test, and prod.
- Use limited roles and grant temporary security credentials - IAM roles and temporary security credentials mean you don't always have to manage long-term credentials and IAM users for each entity that requires access to a resource. You can use AWS IAM, IAM Role, and Secrete Manager to define granular access and store credentials.
- Federate to an existing identity service - Control access to AWS resources, and manage the authentication and authorization process without...
