Summary
Data security is one of the major requirements for most of the AWS users. The AWS platform provides multiple options to secure data in their data storage services for data at rest and data in transit. We learned about securing data for most popular storage services such as AWS S3, AWS RDS, and so on.
We learned the fundamentals of data encryption and how AWS KMS provides a fully managed solution for creating encryption keys, managing, controlling, and auditing usage of these encryption keys.
We also learned about AWS CloudHSM, a dedicated hardware appliance to store your encryption keys for corporate or regulatory compliance. We went through various features of CloudHSM and the most popular use cases for this service.
Lastly, we went through Amazon Macie, a newly launched data security service that uses machine learning for protecting your critical data by automatically detecting and classifying it.
The AWS EC2 service provides compute or servers in AWS for purposes such as web servers...
