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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

You're reading from   AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide Build your cloud security knowledge and expertise as an AWS Certified Security Specialist (SCS-C01)

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789534474
Length 558 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stuart Scott Stuart Scott
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Wilberto Palomar Wilberto Palomar
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Exam and Preparation
2. AWS Certified Security - Specialty Exam Coverage FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2: Security Responsibility and Access Management
4. AWS Shared Responsibility Model 5. Access Management 6. Working with Access Policies 7. Federated and Mobile Access 8. Section 3: Security - a Layered Approach
9. Securing EC2 Instances 10. Configuring Infrastructure Security 11. Implementing Application Security 12. DDoS Protection 13. Incident Response 14. Securing Connections to Your AWS Environment 15. Section 4: Monitoring, Logging, and Auditing
16. Implementing Logging Mechanisms 17. Auditing and Governance 18. Section 5: Best Practices and Automation
19. Automating Security Detection and Remediation 20. Discovering Security Best Practices 21. Section 6: Encryption and Data Security
22. Managing Key Infrastructure 23. Managing Data Security 24. Mock Tests 25. Assessments 26. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding a VPC

A VPC is a virtual private cloud, and you can think of this as your own private section of the AWS network. It allows you to create a virtual network infrastructure that you can segment into different networks. These networks can be made both public-facing and private and they use TCP/IP for addressing. They can essentially emulate a local area network that you would be running on-premises within your own data center:

During the creation of your VPC, you can configure multiple subnets to reside in different Availability Zones, helping you to architect for resilience from the get-go. When you have your VPC configured and up and running, you can then deploy other AWS resources within these subnets. For example, you could have a public-facing subnet hosting EC2 web servers accessible by the public, which can then pass traffic to your application servers within a private subnet. This in turn could talk to your database infrastructure, within another private subnet. This...

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