Security

AWS IAM Permissions Explained

Detecting Failed Sign In Attempts to AWS and Alerting

Using CloudTrail and CloudWatch Logs to detect sign in attempts to AWS IAM or IAM Identity Center that fail because of MFA, and generating an email alert

Using AWS WAF to Improve Application Security

Setting up AWS Web Application Firewall to protect from Cross-Site Scripting, OS command execution and SQL injections, without modifying the application code.

Using Client VPN to securely connect to an RDS instance

Step-by-step instructions to setup Client VPN, and a comparison with jump hosts and Session Manager

Detecting and Fixing Vulnerabilities with Amazon Inspector

Setting up Inspector to detect vulnerabilities, and a safer way to SSH into an EC2 instance

Authenticated Access to S3 with Amazon Cognito

Serving content from S3 only to authenticated users

Securing Microservices with AWS Cognito

Using Cognito for authentication and authorization to the Course Catalog microservice

7 Must-Do Security Best Practices for your AWS Account

Security is like a diet: you always say you're gonna start on Monday, and you never do. Today is the day you start.

Monitoring and Securing Serverless Endpoints with API Gateway

Exposing endpoints with AWS API Gateway and all the best practices that you need

Session Manager: SSH to EC2 Instances Securely

An easier and safer way to SSH into your EC2 instances