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Security Services

AWS Shield​

  • Network protection service
  • Offer free DDOS protection
  • Protect against layer 3 and layer 4 attacks only
  • Protects all AWS customers on ELB, CloudFront and Route S3
  • Protects against:

SSM Parameter Store​

  • Secure storage for configuration and secrets
  • Optional Seamless Encryption using KMS
  • Serverless, scalable, durable, easy SDK
  • Version tracking of configuration / secrets
  • Security through IMA
  • Notification with Amazon EventBridge
  • Integration with CloudFormation

AWS Secret Manager​

  • Store securely application secrets, database credentials, API Keys, SSH Keys, passwords, etc
  • Rotation can be used
  • Automate generation of secrets on rotation
  • Integrated with Amazon RDS
  • Replicate Secrets across multiple AWS Regions
  • It keeps read replicas in sync with primary Secret

AWS Audit Manager​

  • Continually audit your AWS usage
  • Automated service that produces report to auditors for PCI, GDPR and more

GuardDuty​

  • A threat detection service that uses machine learning to continuously monitor for malicious behavior
  • Looks for
    • Unusual API calls, calls from a known malicious IP
    • Attempts to disable CloudTrail logging
    • Unauthorized deployments
    • Compromised instances
    • Reconnaissance by would-be attackers
    • Port scanning, failed logins
  • Log analyzed
    • CloudTrail logs
    • VPC Flow logs
    • DNS logs

Macie​

  • Uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover sensitive data stored in S3

Amazon Inspector​

  • Is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of application deployed on AWS
  • Inspects the network, EC2 instances, Amazon ECR and Lambda Functions
  • Two types of assessment
    • Network assessment
    • Host assessment

Cloud HSM​

  • KMS => AWS Manages software for encryption
  • CloudHSM => AWS provisions encryption hardware
  • Dedicated Hardware (HSM = Hardware Security Module)
  • You manage your own encryption keys entirely (not AWS)
  • The CloudHSM hardware device is tamper resistant
  • FIPS 140-2 Level 3 compliance
  • CloudHSM cluster are spread across multi AZ (HA)
  • Supports both symmetric and asymmetric encryption (SSL/TLS keys)
  • No free tier available
  • Must use the CloudHSM Client Software

Presigned URLS​

  • Generate an url which provides temporary access to an object to either upload or download object data
  • They are commonly used to provide access to private objects
  • You can use AWS CLI or AWS SDK to generate presigned urls
  • Used to share private buckets in S3

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)​

  • Allows to create, manage, and deploy public and private SSL certificates for use with other AWS services
  • No more paying for SSL certificates. You pay for the resources that utilize your certificates (such as ELB)
  • Renew and deployment can be automated
  • Easy to set up

AWS Artifact​

  • Single source you can visit to get the compliance-related information that matters to you, such as AWS security and compliance reports or select online agreements
  • Free service

Amazon Detective​

  • Analyze and investigate and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issue or suspicious activities

Firewall manager​

  • Is security management service in single pane of glass
  • This allows to centrally set up and manage firewall rules across multiple AWS accounts and applications in AWS Organizations
  • It is integrated with AWS Organizations so you can enable AWS WAF rules, AWS Shield Advanced protection, security groups, AWS Network Firewall rules, and Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall rules

Network firewall​

  • Managed service that makes it easy to deploy physical firewall protection across your VPCs

Security Hub​

  • A single place to view all your security alerts from services like Amazon GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie and AWS Firewall
  • Performs security best practice checks
  • Aggregates alerts
  • Enables automated remediation