6 Network access protection beyond the VPC
This chapter covers
- Connecting to AWS services via VPC endpoints
- Creating custom VPC endpoint services
- Writing custom firewall rules
- Understanding AWS Shield protections
- Integrating third-party firewalls
In the last chapter we examined the networking primitives available in AWS, including VPCs, subnets, and security groups. We saw how we can use these to limit the traffic we allow to our EC2 instances and other networked resources. In this chapter we’ll take that even further, looking at more advanced ways of securing networks.
One of the benefits of VPC peering, which we talked about in chapter 5, is that it allows you to route traffic between resources without going over the public internet. In this ...
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