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AWS Security Hub

2025-12-28T16:10:04+00:00

Bookmarks Features How It Works Concepts Pricing AWS Security Hub Cheat Sheet AWS Security Hub provides a comprehensive view of your security posture across AWS accounts by aggregating, organizing, and prioritizing security findings from AWS services, AWS partner tools, and automated compliance checks. It helps evaluate compliance with industry standards and best practices. Features Centralized Security Findings Aggregates security alerts (findings) across AWS services such as: Amazon GuardDuty Amazon Inspector Amazon Macie AWS IAM Access Analyzer AWS Firewall Manager AWS Audit Manager Integrated AWS Partner security solutions Multi-Account Support via AWS Organizations Integrates [...]

AWS Security Hub2025-12-28T16:10:04+00:00

Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)

2025-11-26T13:48:35+00:00

Bookmarks Features Limitations Pricing Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) Cheat Sheet The Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that enables you to run applications that require high levels of inter-node communication at scale on AWS. It is designed to accelerate High Performance Computing (HPC) and machine learning applications by providing lower and more consistent latency and higher throughput than traditional TCP channels. How It Works: EFA integrates with  Libfabric (1.7.0+) and supports Open MPI (4.x+), Intel MPI, and Nvidia Collective Communications Library (NCCL) for machine learning applications. With an [...]

Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)2025-11-26T13:48:35+00:00

Amazon GuardDuty

2026-02-18T02:33:55+00:00

Bookmarks How It Works GuardDuty Findings Trusted IP Lists and Threat Lists Pricing Validate Your Knowledge Amazon GuardDuty Cheat Sheet Amazon GuardDuty is an intelligent threat detection service that analyzes billions of events across your AWS accounts from: AWS CloudTrail (user and API activity) Amazon VPC Flow Logs (network traffic) DNS Logs (name query patterns) Features UnauthorizedAccess: Detects API calls from external hosts using Lambda-created temporary credentials. Extended Threat Detection: Detects multi-stage attacks (EC2/ECS/EKS sequences). Runtime Monitoring Updates: Monitors latest agent versions for EC2, ECS, EKS-Fargate. Malware Protection for Backup: Scans EBS [...]

Amazon GuardDuty2026-02-18T02:33:55+00:00

Amazon FSx

2025-12-20T19:57:40+00:00

Bookmarks Common Use Cases Storage Migration Limits Security Pricing Amazon FSx Cheat Sheet Amazon FSx is a fully managed third-party file system solution. It uses SSD and HDD storage to provide fast performance with low latency. There are four available FSx solutions available in AWS: Amazon FSx for Windows File Server A fully managed native Microsoft Windows file system with full support for the SMB protocol, Windows NTFS, and Microsoft Active Directory (AD) integration. How It Works Common Use Cases  File systems that is accessible by multiple users, and can establish [...]

Amazon FSx2025-12-20T19:57:40+00:00

AWS Global Accelerator

2025-12-26T15:53:53+00:00

AWS Global Accelerator Cheat Sheet A service that uses the AWS Global Network to improve the availability and performance of your applications to your local and global users. It provides static IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to your application endpoints in a single or multiple AWS Regions, such as your Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers or Amazon EC2 instances. It supports Dual-Stack configurations, providing you with two static IPv4 addresses and, optionally, two static IPv6 addresses to serve both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. AWS Global Accelerator continually monitors the health of your application endpoints and [...]

AWS Global Accelerator2025-12-26T15:53:53+00:00

AWS Artifact

2025-12-26T19:06:37+00:00

AWS Artifact Cheat Sheet AWS Artifact is a legally binding, self-service portal that provides on-demand access to AWS’ compliance reports and select online agreements. It serves as your central repository for audit artifacts, allowing you to demonstrate to auditors or regulators that your AWS infrastructure meets specific security and compliance standards. Overview & Key Capabilities Central Compliance Repository: A single location to download audit artifacts and manage agreements. Audit Artifacts: Evidence (reports, certifications) that validates AWS security controls are effective and compliant. Legal Agreements: Review, accept, and manage contracts like the Business Associate Addendum (BAA) for HIPAA. Third-Party Visibility: Access [...]

AWS Artifact2025-12-26T19:06:37+00:00

Amazon Macie

2025-12-26T19:02:19+00:00

Bookmarks Concepts Pricing Amazon Macie Cheat Sheet Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in Amazon S3. Primary Focus: S3 Bucket security posture (Encryption/Public Access) and Sensitive Data Discovery (PII, PHI, Credentials). Legacy Note: Macie Classic features (CloudTrail anomaly detection, user behavior analytics) have been removed. Use Amazon GuardDuty for threat detection and AWS CloudTrail Insights for anomaly detection. Features Automated Sensitive Data Discovery Continuous sampling of S3 objects to detect sensitive data. Interactive heatmap showing [...]

Amazon Macie2025-12-26T19:02:19+00:00

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

Instrumenting your Application with AWS X-Ray

2023-08-14T02:52:58+00:00

Bookmarks Instrumenting your Node.js application Instrumenting your Java application Instrumenting your C# .Net application Instrumenting your Python application Instrumenting your Go application Instrumenting your Node.js application The AWS X-Ray SDK for Node.js provides middleware that you can use to instrument incoming HTTP requests. You need to add the SDK to your application’s dependencies, usually via package.json. Initialize the SDK client and add it to your application prior to declaring routes. var AWSXRay = require('aws-xray-sdk'); AWSXRay.setDaemonAddress('host:port'); app.use(AWSXRay.express.openSegment('MyApp'));       3. Lastly, use the SDK exceptions after declaring routes. app.get('/', function (req, res) [...]

Instrumenting your Application with AWS X-Ray2023-08-14T02:52:58+00:00

Kinesis Scaling, Resharding and Parallel Processing

2023-03-20T03:29:22+00:00

Kinesis Resharding enables you to increase or decrease the number of shards in a stream in order to adapt to changes in the rate of data flowing through the stream. Resharding is always pairwise. You cannot split into more than two shards in a single operation, and you cannot merge more than two shards in a single operation. The Kinesis Client Library (KCL) tracks the shards in the stream using an Amazon DynamoDB table, and adapts to changes in the number of shards that result from resharding. When new shards are created as a result of resharding, the KCL discovers [...]

Kinesis Scaling, Resharding and Parallel Processing2023-03-20T03:29:22+00:00

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