Summary

Security threats to web application and infrastructure have and always will be a concern for the organization who provide public-facing services. Unfortunately, you have to prepare for those who are determined to breach your security defenses and take advantage of any weaknesses that may exist within your infrastructure. AWS has a number of Security services that help you to control and manage these inevitable attacks, in this chapter we discussed AWS WAF, AWS Shield, AWS Firewall Manager, and some of the CloudFront security features. Although some of these services come at an additional cost, this cost is negligible when it comes to comparing it against the cost of compromised data and resources within your business. Not just a financial cost, but reputational cost which can unintentionally adversely affect your business going forward.

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