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AWS Cloud Security Products

AWS Security Hub cloud security posture management service that performs security best practice checks, aggregates alerts and enables automated remediation. collects security data from across AWS accounts, services, and supported third-party partner products and helps you analyze your security trends and identify the highest priority security issues. is...
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Using AWS Backup Audit Manager to Audit your backup RPOs

The new control in AWS Backup Audit Manager – Last Recovery Point Control. This allows customers to identify and report on the last available backup recovery point to ensure compliance with their organization’s recovery point (RPO) requirements. This new control extends the visibility, continuous compliance monitoring, and reporting...
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What is Egress and Ingress

In the area of networking, Egress refers to traffic that quits an entity or a network border, whereas Ingress refers to traffic that enters a network barrier. While this is quite obvious in service provider networks, it is significantly different in datacenter or cloud networks. In the cloud,...
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Recover the AWS EC2 SSH key lost or Corrupted

If the AWS EC2 instance and your SSH key no longer work or are Lost or Corrupted. How am I going to regain access to the instance? There is a pretty simple workaround if you have access to the AWS console and the region where the EC2 instance...
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AWS Transit Gateway

A transit gateway is a network transit hub that connects your virtual private clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks. Inter-Region peering links transit gateways utilizing the AWS Global Architecture as your cloud infrastructure extends internationally. Your information is automatically encrypted and is never sent over the public internet. The...
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Right Sizing EC2 instances and RDS DB instances

Right Size Using Performance Data Use performance data analysis to properly size EC2 instances. Determine the underutilized and idle instances. CPU and memory consumption are important metrics to monitor. Over a four-week period, find instances with a maximum CPU use and memory usage of under 40%. These are...
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AWS Backup quotas

The following quotas apply when working with AWS Backup. Many AWS Backup quotas are adjustable. 100 You can request an adjustment. Number of versions per backup plan 2,000 You can request an adjustment. Number of resource assignments per backup plan 100 You cannot request an adjustment. Number of...
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Technical Architecture Startup Company

Introduction   Currently the architecture for their social media applications uses a LAMP stack for the main web application and provide a RESTful API for mobile services, written in node.js. All of this is running on a VPS service, location unknown. The proposed architecture for running on AWS...
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Hosting a Static Website in AWS S3 Bucket

Static websites have fixed content with no backend processing. They can contain HTML pages, images, style sheets, and all of the files required to render the website, but there is no server-side scripting or database. If desired, the web pages can provide interactivity and run programming logic by...
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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a directory service designed to track users on your system and provide a way to keep track of information about authentication methods. IAM helps you track double credentials and permissions. For example, a business owner can create many...
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