Best ways to Secure Your EC2 Instance
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When building out your Amazon EC2 Instance, you are responsible for configuring appropriate and effective access controls to protect your EC2 instances from unauthorized use. AWS provides four tools to…
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
How to Create a Virtual Private Cloud in AWS Securely
The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is a virtual network that contains EC2 (Elastic Compute) instances as well as network resources for other AWS services. By default, every VPC is securely…
AWS — Direct Connect Overview
Introduction to AWS Direct Connect AWS Direct Connect makes it easy to establish a dedicated connection from an on-premises network to Amazon VPC. Using AWS Direct Connect, you can establish…
Getting Started with Infrastructure as Code
What is IaC? When you are new to the cloud, your early interactions are via the web portals such portal.azure.com for Microsoft Azure or aws.amazon.com for Amazon Web Services. This…
AWS — Amazon RDS vs Amazon EC2 Relational Databases — Comparison
Difference between Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2 Relational Databases in AWS TL;DR: Amazon RDS enables you to run a fully featured relational database while offloading database administration. Whereas, for more…
AWS — VPC Peering Overview
Introduction to AWS VPC Peering TL;DR A VPC Peering connection is a networking connection between two VPCs that enables you to route traffic between them privately (using private IPv4 or…
AWS — VPC Egress-Only Internet Gateway Overview
Introduction to AWS VPC Egress-Only Internet Gateway TL;DR Egress-only Internet Gateway is VPC component that allows outbound only communication to the internet over IPv6, and prevents the Internet from initiating…
AWS — VPC Endpoints Overview
Introduction to AWS VPC Endpoints TL;DR VPC endpoint enables creation of a private connection between VPC to supported AWS services and VPC endpoint services powered by PrivateLink using its private…
AWS — VPC Route Table Overview
Introduction to AWS VPC Route Table TL;DR A route table contains a set of rules, called routes, that are used to determine where network traffic from your subnet or gateway…
AWS — Amazon Route 53 — Routing Policies Overview
Introduction to AWS Route 53 Routing Policy types When you create a record, you choose a routing policy, which determines how Amazon Route 53 responds to queries: Simple routing policy…