You're reading from Mastering AWS Security Create and maintain a secure cloud ecosystem

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788293723

Length 252 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Information Security

Author (1):

Albert Anthony

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Overview of Security in AWS FREE CHAPTER

2. AWS Identity and Access Management

3. AWS Virtual Private Cloud

4. Data Security in AWS

5. Securing Servers in AWS

6. Securing Applications in AWS

7. Monitoring in AWS

8. Logging and Auditing in AWS

9. AWS Security Best Practices

Amazon API Gateway

As a developer, you have to work with APIs on a regular basis. Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed web service that helps to manage, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs for any workload running on EC2 instances, AWS Lambda, or any web application. You can use API Gateway to manage, authenticate, and secure hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls. Management of APIs includes access control, traffic management, monitoring, and API version management. All the APIs that are built using API Gateway support data over HTTP protocols. You can also run multiple versions of the same REST API by cloning the existing API. Let us look at the following benefits of using Amazon API Gateway:

Low cost and efficient: You pay for the requests that are made to your API, for example, $3.5 per million API calls, along with the cost of data transfer out, in gigabytes...

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Authors (1)

Albert Anthony

Albert Anthony is a seasoned IT professional with 18 years of experience working with various technologies and in multiple teams spread all across the globe. He believes that the primary purpose of information technology is to solve problems faced by businesses and organizations. He is an AWS certified solutions architect and a corporate trainer. He holds all three AWS associate-level certifications along with PMI-PMP and Certified Scrum Master certifications. He has been training since 2008 on project management, cost management, and people management, and on AWS since 2016. He has managed multiple projects on AWS that runs big data applications, hybrid mobile application development, DevOps, and infrastructure monitoring on AWS. He has successfully migrated multiple workloads to AWS from on-premise data centers and other hosting providers. He is responsible for securing workloads for all his customers, with hundreds of servers; processing TBs of data; and running multiple web, mobile, and batch applications.

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