Learning AWS - Second Edition

Designing for and Implementing Security

In this chapter, we will introduce some key design principles and approaches to achieving security in your applications deployed on the AWS cloud. As an enterprise, or a start-up, you want to ensure your mission critical applications and data are secure while serving your customers. The approaches in this chapter will address security across the layers of your application architecture including security aspects of key infrastructural components. In order to address security requirements, we will use several AWS services, including IAM, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch. Additionally, we will explore AWS Edge services such as CloudFront, Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM), and AWS WAF from a security perspective.  ...