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AWS Security Best Practices

Official docs outline

10 sections
  1. AWS Security Reference Architecture

    Multi-account guidance for organizing AWS security services.

  2. IAM Security Best Practices

    Temporary credentials, least privilege, MFA and root account protection.

  3. S3 Security Best Practices

    Block public access, encryption, versioning and access logging.

  4. VPC Security Best Practices

    Security groups, network ACLs and flow logs.

  5. CloudTrail Security Best Practices

    Multi-region trails, log integrity and encryption.

  6. GuardDuty

    Managed threat detection.

  7. Security Hub

    Aggregating findings and running security standards checks.

  8. AWS Config

    Resource configuration recording and compliance rules.

  9. Lambda Security

    Function execution roles, data protection and runtime security.

  10. Secrets Manager Best Practices

    Rotation, access control and replication of secrets.

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