AWS Security Best Practices

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1: AWS Security Overview

• Shared responsibility model
• Customer challenges
• Frameworks and standards
• Establishing best practices
• Compliance in AWS

Module 2: Securing the Network

• Flexible and secure
• Security inside the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
• Security services
• Third-party security solutions

Lab 1: Controlling the Network

• Create a three-security zone network infrastructure.
• Implement network segmentation using security groups, Network Access Control Lists (NACLs), and public and private subnets.
• Monitor network traffic to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances using VPC flow logs.

Module 3: Amazon EC2 Security

• Compute hardening
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) encryption
• Secure management and maintenance
• Detecting vulnerabilities
• Using AWS Marketplace

Lab 2: Securing the starting point (EC2)

• Create a custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI).
• Deploy a new EC2 instance from a custom AMI.
• Patch an EC2 instance using AWS Systems Manager.
• Encrypt an EBS volume.
• Understand how EBS encryption works and how it impacts other operations.
• Use security groups to limit traffic between EC2 instances to only that which is encrypted.

Module 4: Monitoring and Alerting

• Logging network traffic
• Logging user and Application Programming Interface (API) traffic
• Visibility with Amazon CloudWatch
• Enhancing monitoring and alerting
• Verifying your AWS environment

Lab 3: Security Monitoring

• Configure an Amazon Linux 2 instance to send log files to Amazon CloudWatch.
• Create Amazon CloudWatch alarms and notifications to monitor for failed login attempts.
• Create Amazon CloudWatch alarms to monitor network traffic through a Network Address Translation (NAT) gateway.