Beginning PostgreSQL on the Cloud: Simplifying Database as a Service on Cloud Platforms

© Baji Shaik, Avinash Vallarapu 2018

Baji Shaik and Avinash VallarapuBeginning PostgreSQL on the Cloudhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3447-1_7

7. Security on the Cloud

Baji Shaik¹  and Avinash Vallarapu¹

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Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

 

This chapter discusses why anyone needs security and why anyone would want to secure their data in the current world. It also covers the security options that each cloud vendor provides and how to achieve maximum security using those options. There might differences in ways of securing data for each vendor, but the ultimate goal is the same—secured data.

Security on Amazon Cloud

In previous chapters, we discussed how to create an AWS account and create our first EC2 or RDS instance. As a database administrator, ...