What this book covers

Chapter 1, Overview of Security in AWS, introduces you to the shared security responsibility model, a fundamental concept to understand security in AWS. As well as this, it introduces you to the security landscape in AWS.

Chapter 2, AWS Identity and Access Management, walks you through the doorway of all things about security in AWS, access control, and user management. We learn about identities and authorizations for everything in AWS in great detail in this chapter.

Chapter 3, AWS Virtual Private Cloud, talks about creating and securing our own virtual network in the AWS cloud. This chapter also introduces you to the various connectivity options that AWS provides to create hybrid cloud, public cloud, and private cloud solutions.

Chapter 4, Data Security in AWS, talks about encryption in AWS to secure your data in rest and while working with AWS data storage services.

Chapter 5, Securing Servers in AWS, explains ways to secure your infrastructure in AWS by employing continuous threat assessment, agent-based security checks, virtual firewalls for your servers, and so on.

Chapter 6, Securing Applications in AWS, introduces you to ways to secure all your applications developed and deployed in the AWS environment. This chapter walks you through the web application firewall service, as well as securing a couple of AWS services used by developers for web and mobile application development.

Chapter 7, Monitoring in AWS, provides a deep dive into the monitoring of your resources in AWS, including AWS services, resources, and applications running on the AWS cloud. This chapter helps you to set up monitoring for your native AWS resources along with your custom applications and resources.

Chapter 8, Logging and Auditing in AWS, helps you to learn ways to stay compliant in the AWS cloud by logging and auditing all that is going on with your AWS resources. This chapter gives you a comprehensive, hands-on tour of logging and auditing all the services to achieve continuous compliance for your AWS environment.

Chapter 9, AWS Security Best Practices, walks you through best practices in a consolidated form for securing all your resources in AWS. Ensure that these best practices are followed for all your AWS environments!