AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty Exam Guide

Packet security

The requirements of modern applications sometimes go beyond the security that's provided by both the WAF, AWS Shield, or any port-based firewalls we implement. To achieve complete packet security, we would need a device that would be able to implement a deep packet inspection or packet pattern analysis inside the traffic being sent through the network.

This would be perfectly viable if all the traffic flowing to our applications was unencrypted. However, encryption is becoming a standard approach to application security and this is the point at which AWS draws a line of separation of responsibility. To make sure your environment is always secure from intrusion, the shared security model delegates all security of content to ...