aws cheat sheets guide

Amazon Cognito

2024-01-18T07:29:47+00:00

Bookmarks How It Works User Pools Identity Pools Common Use Cases Pricing Validate Your Knowledge Amazon Cognito Cheat Sheet 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 [...]

Amazon Cognito2024-01-18T07:29:47+00:00

AWS DataSync

2024-01-18T07:23:36+00:00

Bookmarks How It Works Concepts Features Use Cases Pricing Limits AWS DataSync Cheat Sheet 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 [...]

AWS DataSync2024-01-18T07:23:36+00:00

AWS Secrets Manager

2024-02-19T07:18:28+00:00

Bookmarks Features How Secret Rotation Works Security Compliance Pricing Validate Your Knowledge AWS Secrets Manager Cheat Sheet A secret management service that enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle. Features AWS Secrets Manager encrypts secrets at rest using encryption keys that you own and store in AWS Key Management Service [customer managed keys]. When you retrieve a secret, Secrets Manager decrypts the secret and transmits it securely over TLS to your local environment. You can rotate secrets on a schedule [...]

AWS Secrets Manager2024-02-19T07:18:28+00:00

AWS CodeStar

2023-06-07T06:54:23+00:00

AWS CodeStar Cheat Sheet A cloud‑based software development service that provides the tools you need to quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS. CodeStar is commonly used along with CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline for a robust CI/CD toolchain. Features Each AWS CodeStar project comes with a project management dashboard, including an integrated issue tracking capability that uses Atlassian JIRA Software. With the project management dashboard, you have a unified user interface to monitor application activity, and track progress across all stages of your software development process, including code commits, builds, tests, and deployments. AWS CodeStar provides you a [...]

AWS CodeStar2023-06-07T06:54:23+00:00

AWS CodeCommit

2023-06-23T08:17:44+00:00

Bookmarks Concepts Repository Features File Features Pull Requests Commit and Branch Features Migration from Git repositories to CodeCommit High Availability Security Monitoring Pricing Limits AWS CodeCommit Cheat Sheet  A fully-managed source control service that hosts secure Git-based repositories, similar to Github. You can create your own code repository and use Git commands to interact with your own repository and other repositories. You can store and version any kind of file, including application assets such as images and libraries alongside your code. The AWS CodeCommit Console lets [...]

AWS CodeCommit2023-06-23T08:17:44+00:00

AWS Security Hub

2024-01-18T07:46:24+00:00

Bookmarks Features How It Works Concepts Pricing AWS Security Hub Cheat Sheet AWS Security Hub provides a comprehensive view of your security state within AWS and your compliance with security industry standards and best practices. Features You now have a single place that aggregates, organizes, and prioritizes your security alerts, or findings, across multiple accounts, AWS partner tools, and AWS services such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, Amazon Macie, AWS IAM Access Analyzer, AWS Firewall Manager, and AWS Audit Manager. AWS Security Hub works with AWS Organizations to simplify security posture management across [...]

AWS Security Hub2024-01-18T07:46:24+00:00

Amazon GuardDuty

2023-07-11T03:22:09+00:00

Bookmarks How It Works GuardDuty Findings Trusted IP Lists and Threat Lists Pricing Validate Your Knowledge Amazon GuardDuty Cheat Sheet An intelligent threat detection service. It analyzes billions of events across your AWS accounts from AWS CloudTrail (AWS user and API activity in your accounts), Amazon VPC Flow Logs (network traffic data), and DNS Logs (name query patterns). How It Works GuardDuty is a regional service. Threat detection categories Reconnaissance -- Activity suggesting reconnaissance by an attacker, such as unusual API activity, intra-VPC port scanning, unusual patterns of failed login requests, or [...]

Amazon GuardDuty2023-07-11T03:22:09+00:00

AWS Global Accelerator

2023-06-16T22:44:21+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. AWS Global Accelerator continually monitors the health of your application endpoints and will detect an unhealthy endpoint and redirect traffic to healthy endpoints in less than 1 minute. How It Works Concepts An accelerator is the [...]

AWS Global Accelerator2023-06-16T22:44:21+00:00

AWS Artifact

2024-01-18T07:32:20+00:00

AWS Artifact Cheat Sheet A self-service central repository of AWS’ security and compliance reports and select online agreements. An audit artifact is a piece of evidence that demonstrates that an organization is following a documented process or meeting a specific requirement (business compliant).  AWS Artifact Reports include the following: ISO, Service Organization Control (SOC) reports,  Payment Card Industry (PCI) reports,  and certifications that validate the implementation and operating effectiveness of AWS security controls. AWS Artifacts Agreements include  the Nondisclosure Agreement (NDA)  the Business Associate Addendum (BAA), which typically is required for companies that are subject to the HIPAA Act to [...]

AWS Artifact2024-01-18T07:32:20+00:00

Amazon Macie

2024-01-18T07:31:33+00:00

Bookmarks Concepts Pricing Amazon Macie Cheat Sheet A security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS. Macie recognizes sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) or intellectual property. Amazon Macie allows you to achieve the following: Identify and protect various data types, including PII, PHI, regulatory documents, API keys, and secret keys Verify compliance with automated logs that allow for instant auditing Identify changes to policies and access control lists Receive notifications when data and account credentials leave protected zones Detect when large quantities of business-critical [...]

Amazon Macie2024-01-18T07:31:33+00:00

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