AWS Security Services

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AWS offers shared security model to its consumers. That means AWS controls few security aspects and some are controlled by you as consumers.

As a consumer you get to control identity and access management aspects of security.

Below are the most widely used AWS security services.

1. AWS IAM

• IAM stands for Identity and Access Management.
• It is a security web service Offered by AWS, to ensure that users get to access resources at appropriate level of permissions.
• It offers shared access, deals with user and group level accesses.
• It also controls centralized and granular level access.

2. AWS WAF

• WAF stands for Web Application Firewall.
• WAF protects the web application by filtering, monitoring, and blocking any malicious HTTP/s traffic that might penetrate the web application.
• A WAF acts as a shield between a web application and the internet.

3. AWS KMS

• KMS stands for Key Management Service.
• It is a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the cryptographic keys that are used to protect your data.
• With KMS you can safely encrypt data that moves over the AWS cloud platform network.
• Your keys are also kept safe by using hardware security modules.

4. AWS Shield

• It is a managed DDOS ( Distributed Denial of Service ) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS.
• It comes with two levels of protection.

(i) AWS Shield Standard

(ii) AWS Shield Advanced

5. AWS Trusted Advisor

• Trusted Advisor acts as an inspector in your AWS environment to make recommendations that helps in saving money, improvise system performance , or close security gaps.

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