Improve cloud security within your organization by leveraging AWS's Shared Responsibility Model
Well-Architected Framework and the Cloud Adoption Framework. This book will show you to use
these tools to make the best decisions for securing your cloud environment. You'll start by
understanding why security is important in the cloud and then review the relevant services
offered to meet an organization's needs. You'll then move on to the finer points of building a
secure architecture and take a deep look into the differences of responsibility of managed
services and those that allow customers more control. With multiple AWS services available
organizations must weigh the tradeoffs between those that provide granular control (IaaS) a
managed service (PaaS) delivering applications remotely over the internet instead of locally
on machines (SaaS). This book will help you to identify the appropriate resources and show you
how to implement them to meet an organization's business technical and security perspective
in the Cloud Adoption Framework. Finally you'll see how organizations can launch a secure and
optimized cloud architecture and use monitoring tools to be proactive in security measures.
With Beginning AWS Security you'll understand frameworks models and the services needed to
build a secure architecture. You will: Review the similarities and differences between cloud
and traditional computing. See how security changes when using on-site hybrid and cloud
models Develop an understanding that security is not one and done Reinforce the need for
updates and monitoring as a continued part of AWS security Who This Book Is For Cloud computing
architects security professionals security engineers and software professionals interested
in Cloud security.
