Security, Identity, and Compliance

AWS Security, Identity, and Compliance services help customers meet security and compliance requirements while managing their cloud resources. These services protect data, accounts, workloads, and infrastructure through integrated tools.\n\nKey services include:\n\nIAM (Identity and Access Management): Controls authentication and authorization to AWS resources through users, groups, roles, and permission policies.\n\nAWS Organizations: Centrally manages multiple AWS accounts, applying policies across them.\n\nAWS Cognito: Adds user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to web/mobile apps.\n\nAWS Shield: Provides DDoS protection for web applications.\n\nAWS WAF (Web Application Firewall): Protects web applications from common exploits.\n\nAmazon GuardDuty: Offers intelligent threat detection.\n\nAWS Config: Assesses, audits, and evaluates resource configurations.\n\nAWS Security Hub: Centralized security compliance dashboard.\n\nAmazon Inspector: Automated security assessment service.\n\nAWS Artifact: On-demand access to compliance reports.\n\nAWS CloudTrail: Tracks user activity and API usage.\n\nThe Shared Responsibility Model is fundamental to AWS security. AWS is responsible for security "of" the cloud (infrastructure, hardware, software), while customers are responsible for security "in" the cloud (data, access management, resource configuration).\n\nWhen building cloud solutions, security should be implemented from the beginning rather than added later. AWS provides tools for encryption at rest and in transit, key management, access controls, and compliance certifications for various industries and regions.\n\nAWS regularly undergoes third-party audits to ensure security controls meet global standards, helping customers meet requirements for HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and other regulations.

AWS Security, Identity, and Compliance services help customers meet security and compliance requirements while managing their cloud resources. These services protect data, accounts, workloads, and in…

Concepts covered: AWS Artifact, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS SSO), Amazon Inspector, Amazon Detective, AWS Security Hub, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS CloudHSM, AWS Network Firewall, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Cognito, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Audit Manager, AWS Directory Service, Amazon Macie, AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM), AWS Shield, AWS WAF