Summary and Quiz
Explore the essential AWS security and compliance services covered in this chapter. Learn how AWS tools like KMS, WAF, Amazon Detective, and GuardDuty help protect and manage cloud resources effectively. Test your understanding with a quiz to reinforce your knowledge of securing AWS environments.
In this lesson, we’ll summarize what we’ve learned so far in this chapter and test our knowledge with a short quiz.
Summary
In this chapter, we learned about security services offered by AWS. Here’s a brief summary of the services we covered:
AWS KMS
KMS is used to manage encryption keys in AWS. There are two main types of KMS keys:
AWS-managed keys: These keys are generated and managed by AWS. They are generally related to an AWS service like S3, EBS.
Customer-managed keys: These keys are generated and managed by users. We have complete control over the configuration of these keys.
WAF
AWS WAF is a network firewall used to protect our applications from malicious access. We can configure related web ACLs to defend our resources from specific types of attacks, including XSS scripting, SQL injections, and Cross-site request forgery. WAF analyzes the request sent to the application and blocks any request that does not comply with the set ACL rules. ...