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Mastering AWS Security

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 (16) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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

VPC best practices

In this section, we will go through an exhaustive list of best practices to be followed for AWS VPC. Most of these are recommended by AWS as well. Implementing these best practices will ensure that your resources, including your servers, data, and applications, are integrated with other AWS services and secured in AWS VPC. Remember that VPC is not a typical data center and it should not be treated as one.

Plan your VPC before you create it

Always start by planning and designing architecture for your VPC before you create it. A bad VPC design will have serious implications on the flexibility, scalability, availability, and security of your infrastructure. So, spend a good amount of time planning out your VPC before you actually start creating it.

Start with the objective of creating a VPC: is it for one application or for a business unit? Spec out all subnets you will need and figure out your availability and fault- tolerance requirements. Find out what all connectivity options...

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Authors (1)

Albert Anthony

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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