chapter six

Chapter 6. Securing your system: IAM, security groups, and VPC

 

This chapter covers

  • Keeping your software up to date
  • Controlling access to your AWS account with users and roles
  • Keeping your traffic under control with security groups
  • Using CloudFormation to create a private network
  • Who is responsible for security?

If security is a wall, you’ll need a lot of bricks to build that wall. This chapter focuses on the four most important bricks to secure your systems on AWS:

6.1. Who’s responsible for security?

6.2. Keeping your software up to date

6.3. Securing your AWS account

6.4. Controlling network traffic to and from your virtual server

6.5. Creating a private network in the cloud: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

6.6. Summary