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An Introduction to AWS Security Amazon understands that a major concern for many organizations considering moving to public (or hybrid) clouds is security. As a result, it has taken great pains to ensure that incredible levels of security are available for your organization, including massive efforts around confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA). The CIA triad,…

AWS Responsibilities Remember that Amazon is considered responsible for security of the cloud. That is, AWS is responsible for protecting the infrastructure that runs the services chosen, including the hardware and software required to power the AWS service as well as the networking and facilities used. Specific Amazon responsibilities include the following: Cloud software, including…

Understanding the Shared Responsibility Model The AWS shared responsibility model divides the security responsibilities between two parties: the AWS customer (you) and Amazon (AWS). The fact that you are no longer responsible for a massive portion of the security required for scalable data centers is a huge advantage. You can leverage the massive budgets of…

Note If you are having issues making an SSH connection using the instructions in step 8, you can try connecting to your instance in a web browser. On the Connect to Instance page, choose the EC2 Instance Connect tab. Then click the Connect button in the lower-right corner, and you should connect to your Linux…

Building a Web Server with the Free Tier Now that you have your Free Tier account, it is time to have some fun and learn a lot in the process. In this section, you will build a fully functional web server in AWS by following some simple steps. You will use EC2 in this lab…

Lab: Creating Your Free Tier Account If you do not already have a Free Tier account with AWS, it is time for you to create one. Follow these steps: Step 1. Search online for AWS Free Tier. Select the link from Amazon for the Free Tier account. Step 2. Click the Create a Free Account…

These services are included with a Free Tier account and will remain free for you after the 1 year is up: Application Discovery Service: This service collects server-specific information for network connections and is available for 1,000 applications per account. Application Migration Service: This service seeks to simplify and expedite application migrations, and use of…

Creating Your Free Tier Account Let’s start by looking at the incredible resources you receive with the Free Tier for 1 year. We will follow this up with the components that remain free after the 1-year period. Note The exact terms of the Free Tier account could change at any time. Here are the “free…

Benefits of Managed Services To varying degrees, you can call upon managed services when you develop solutions in the AWS Cloud. For example, you can use EC2 to help with the automation and deployment of your virtual machines, and you can go even further and use a serverless compute service like Lambda in order to…

Other Benefits As you know, there are plenty of benefits when you move to the AWS Cloud, and these benefits certainly impact the economic benefits that we have discussed so far. Let’s now investigate the benefits of AWS automation and the benefits of using managed services inside of AWS. While these benefits may seem out…