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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788293723

Length 252 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Information Security

Author (1):

Albert Anthony

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Overview of Security in AWS FREE CHAPTER

2. AWS Identity and Access Management

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

Securing Servers in AWS

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) web service provides secure, elastic, scalable computing capacity in the form of virtual computing environments known as instances in the AWS cloud. EC2 is the backbone of AWS, in a way, so that it drives a majority of the revenue for AWS. This service enables users to run their web applications on a cloud by renting servers. EC2 is part of the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering from AWS, and it provides complete control over the instance provided to the user.

These servers or instances are used for a variety of use cases, such as running web applications, installing various software, running databases, and file storage. EC2 has various benefits that make it quite popular:

Secured service offering multiple options for securing servers
Elastic web scale computing; no need to guess the computing capacity
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Authors (1)

Albert Anthony

Albert Anthony is a seasoned IT professional with 18 years of experience working with various technologies and in multiple teams spread all across the globe. He believes that the primary purpose of information technology is to solve problems faced by businesses and organizations. He is an AWS certified solutions architect and a corporate trainer. He holds all three AWS associate-level certifications along with PMI-PMP and Certified Scrum Master certifications. He has been training since 2008 on project management, cost management, and people management, and on AWS since 2016. He has managed multiple projects on AWS that runs big data applications, hybrid mobile application development, DevOps, and infrastructure monitoring on AWS. He has successfully migrated multiple workloads to AWS from on-premise data centers and other hosting providers. He is responsible for securing workloads for all his customers, with hundreds of servers; processing TBs of data; and running multiple web, mobile, and batch applications.

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