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IP Blocking: Use AWS WAF or NACL?

2023-08-14T02:45:24+00:00

What should you do if you identified a series of malicious attacks on your application coming from a specific IP address? Will you use AWS WAF to block that IP address or create a rule in your Network Access Control List to deny traffic from that IP? It is true that AWS WAF can filter web requests based on IP addresses, HTTP headers, HTTP body, or URI strings, to block common attack patterns, such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting. NACL, on the other hand, acts like a firewall for controlling traffic in and out of your subnets. If the [...]

IP Blocking: Use AWS WAF or NACL?2023-08-14T02:45:24+00:00

AWS Directory Service

2024-11-14T07:56:24+00:00

Bookmarks Concepts Active Directory Schema Features Security and Monitoring Pricing Active Directory Connector Simple AD Amazon Cloud Directory AWS Directory Service Cheat Sheet For Microsoft Active Directory Also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, the service enables your directory-aware workloads and AWS resources to use managed Active Directory in the AWS Cloud. The service is built on actual Microsoft Active Directory and powered by Windows Server 2012 R2. AWS Managed Microsoft AD is your best choice if you need actual Active Directory features to support AWS applications or Windows [...]

AWS Directory Service2024-11-14T07:56:24+00:00

Amazon Inspector

2024-11-14T07:47:10+00:00

Bookmarks Features Concepts Rules Packages and Rules Assessment Reports Pricing Amazon Inspector Cheat Sheet An automated security assessment service that helps you test the network accessibility of your EC2 instances and the security state of your applications running on the instances. Inspector uses IAM service-linked roles. Features Inspector provides an engine that analyzes system and resource configuration and monitors activity to determine what an assessment target looks like, how it behaves, and its dependent components. The combination of this telemetry provides a complete picture of the assessment target and its potential security [...]

Amazon Inspector2024-11-14T07:47:10+00:00

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

2024-11-14T08:03:33+00:00

Bookmarks Features Concepts Importing Keys Deleting Keys Pricing Validate Your Knowledge AWS KMS Cheat Sheet A managed service that enables you to easily encrypt your data. KMS provides a highly available key storage, management, and auditing solution for you to encrypt data within your own applications and control the encryption of stored data across AWS services. Features AWS KMS is integrated with CloudTrail, which provides you the ability to audit who used which keys, on which resources, and when. AWS KMS keys are used to control access to data encryption keys [...]

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)2024-11-14T08:03:33+00:00

AWS Organizations

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Bookmarks Features Administrative Actions in Organization Concepts Pricing Validate Your Knowledge AWS Organizations Cheat Sheet It offers policy-based management for multiple AWS accounts. Features With Organizations, you can create groups of accounts and then apply policies to those groups. Organizations provides you a policy framework for multiple AWS accounts. You can apply policies to a group of accounts or all the accounts in your organization. AWS Organizations enables you to set up a single payment method for all the AWS accounts in your organization through consolidated billing. With consolidated billing, you can [...]

AWS Organizations2024-11-14T08:06:43+00:00

AWS WAF

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AWS WAF Cheat Sheet A web application firewall that helps protect web applications from attacks by allowing you to configure rules that allow, block, or monitor (count) web requests based on conditions that you define. These conditions include: IP addresses HTTP headers HTTP body URI strings SQL injection cross-site scripting. Features WAF lets you create rules to filter web traffic based on conditions that include IP addresses, HTTP headers and body, or custom URIs. You can also create rules that block common web exploits like SQL injection and cross site scripting. For application layer attacks, you can use WAF to [...]

AWS WAF2024-11-14T08:14:46+00:00

AWS Shield

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AWS Shield Cheat Sheet A managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. Shield Tiers and Features Standard All AWS customers benefit from the automatic protections of Shield Standard. Shield Standard provides always-on network flow monitoring which inspects incoming traffic to AWS and detect malicious traffic in real-time. Uses several techniques like deterministic packet filtering, and priority based traffic shaping to automatically mitigate attacks without impact to your applications. When you use Shield Standard with CloudFront and Route 53, you receive comprehensive availability protection against all known infrastructure attacks. You can also view all [...]

AWS Shield2024-11-14T08:13:39+00:00

AWS Firewall Manager

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AWS Firewall Manager Cheat Sheet Simplifies your AWS WAF administration and maintenance tasks across multiple accounts and resources. You set up your firewall rules just once, and the service automatically applies your rules across your accounts and resources. Features Firewall Manager allows you to apply WAF rules, as well as Managed Rules for AWS WAF, on a group of resources. Firewall Manager is integrated with AWS Organizations, so you can apply protections to resources across accounts. Firewall Manager allows you can apply protection policies in a hierarchical manner, so you can delegate the creation of application-specific rules while retaining the [...]

AWS Firewall Manager2024-11-14T07:58:29+00:00

AWS Identity and Access Management ( IAM )

2024-11-14T08:00:46+00:00

Bookmarks Features Infrastructure Elements Users Policies AWS Security Token Service (STS) Assume Role Options STS Get Tokens IAM Access Analyzer IAM Identity Center Best Practices AWS IAM-related Cheat Sheets Validate Your Knowledge AWS Identity and Access Management Cheat Sheet Control who is authenticated (signed in) and authorized (has permissions) to use resources. AWS account root user is a single sign-in identity that has complete access to all AWS services and resources in the account. Features You can grant other people permission to administer and use [...]

AWS Identity and Access Management ( IAM )2024-11-14T08:00:46+00:00

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