Unlock the Power of Your AWS Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Protecting Your Cloud Investments
Last Updated on January 7, 2025 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Rudraksh
Originally published on Towards AI.
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As businesses continue to migrate their workloads to the cloud, the importance of cloud security cannot beoverstated. With the rise of cyber threats and data breaches, it’s more crucial than ever to ensure that yourcloud infrastructure is secure and compliant with industry standards.
In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the top tools and best practices for securing your AWS cloudinvestments. From encryption at rest and in transit to identity and access management, monitoring, and incidentresponse, we’ll cover it all.
Encryption is the process of protecting data by converting it into a coded format that can only be deciphered withthe correct key. In the context of cloud security, encryption is essential for protecting sensitive data both intransit and at rest.
AWS provides a robust encryption solution through its Key Management Service (KMS). With KMS, you can create,distribute, and manage cryptographic keys to ensure that your data remains confidential.
When data is stored on an AWS resource, such as an S3 bucket or an RDS instance, it’s encrypted by default.However, if you need to store sensitive data outside of the default encryption settings, you can use KMS toencrypt and decrypt… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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