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AWS Resource Access Manager A service that enables you to easily and securely share AWS resources with any AWS account or, if you are part of AWS Organizations, with Organizational Units (OUs) or your entire Organization. If you share resources with accounts that are outside of your Organization, then those accounts will receive an invitation to the Resource Share and can start using the shared resources upon accepting the invitation. Only the master account can enable sharing with AWS Organizations. The organization must be enabled for all features. RAM eliminates the need to create duplicate resources in multiple accounts. You [...]

AWS Certificate Manager A service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources. SSL/TLS certificates are used to secure network communications and establish the identity of websites over the Internet as well as resources on private networks. ACM is integrated with the following services: Elastic Load Balancing Amazon CloudFront - To use an ACM certificate with CloudFront, you must request or import the certificate in the US East (N. Virginia) region. AWS Elastic Beanstalk Amazon API Gateway AWS CloudFormation AWS Certificate Manager manages the renewal [...]

Using the Secure String Parameter in Systems Manager Parameter Store What is AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store helps you securely store and share key-value pairs across your AWS environment. It is one of the packages under AWS Systems Manager that helps you design a more robust and abstract infrastructure. With Parameter Store, you don’t have to hard code parameters nor save them in config files for application use. You can easily reference them in your applications and AWS resources using the unique parameter store key of those items.  Parameter Store supports a lot of use [...]

Amazon Cognito A user management and authentication service that can be integrated to your web or mobile applications. Amazon Cognito also enables you to authenticate users through an external identity provider and provides temporary security credentials to access your app’s backend resources in AWS or any service behind Amazon API Gateway. Amazon Cognito works with external identity providers that support SAML or OpenID Connect, social identity providers (Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google, Apple) and you can also integrate your own identity provider. An Amazon Cognito ID token is represented as a JSON Web Token (JWT). Amazon Cognito uses JSON Web Tokens [...]

Amazon Lightsail A cloud-based virtual private server (VPS) solution. Lightsail includes everything you need for your websites and web applications – a virtual machine (choose either Linux or Windows OS), SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP address. Features Lightsail Instances and Volumes Lightsail offers virtual servers (instances) where you can launch your website, web application, or project. Manage your instances from the Lightsail console or API. You can choose from a variety of hardware configurations to suit your workload. See pricing section below for details. Lightsail uses SSD for its virtual servers. Each attached disk can [...]

AWS DataSync An online data transfer service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates copying large amounts of data to and from AWS storage services over the internet or AWS Direct Connect.  DataSync can copy data between: Network File System (NFS) or Server Message Block (SMB) file servers,  Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets,  Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems,  Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems How It Works Deploy an agent - Deploy a DataSync agent and associate it to your AWS account via the Management Console or API. The agent will be used to access [...]