AWS Essentials - Part 6 [ Security, Identity and Compliance ]

• AWS offers data center and network architecture built to meet the requirements of the most ***security-sensitive organizations***.
• The AWS cloud provides a platform to scale and innovate, while still maintaining a secure environment.
• Pay only for the services been used.

·         Security, Identity, and Compliance Products

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·         Amazon Inspector - automated security assessment service, that aids to enhance the compliance and security of applications deployed on AWS.

·         AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) - controls users' access to AWS services. Allows to create, manage users and groups, and deny or grant access.

·         AWS Artifact - the portal offers on-demand access to AWS compliance and security documents (audit artifacts).

·         Amazon Cloud Directory - set up flexible cloud-native directories to organize hierarchies of data along numerous dimensions.

·         AWS Certificate Manager - seamlessly manage, provision, and deploy Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates.

·         AWS CloudHSM - fulfill regulatory, contractual, and corporate compliance requirements for data security by utilizing a dedicated Hardware Security Module (HSM). AWS Directory Service - allows AWS resources and directory-aware workloads to utilize managed Active Directory in AWS Cloud for Microsoft Active Directory.

·         AWS WAF - web application firewall that aids in protecting web applications from web threats that could eat up excessive resources, or compromise security, hinder application availability.