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AWS Security Cookbook
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AWS Security Cookbook

by Heartin Kanikathottu
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
13h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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We can encrypt an EBS storage volume while creating an EC2 instance as follows:

  1. Go to the EC2 dashboard and click on Instances from the left sidebar. Click on the Launch Instance button at the top of the page, select Amazon Linux 2 AMI, set Type to t2.micro, and click Next: Configure Instance Details.
  2. Leave the default values as they are in the Configure Instance Details page and click Next: Add Storage.

Now, we should see the Add Storage page with the Root volume:

  1. Click on the drop-down menu for Encryption and select our customer master key (CMK). I will select the default AWS-managed KMS key for EBS:

Optionally, we can ...

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