Protecting against ransomware
Ransomware has gained popularity in recent years. The idea is that a hacker or a group of hackers will try to find and exploit a vulnerability in your infrastructure or services. If they manage to gain enough permissions to take over control of your AWS account, then it will provide them access not only to all your computing instances but also all the data present in your databases. Since your services are now managed using CloudFormation and Ansible, you will be able to redeploy your infrastructure quickly. The bigger issue is the data. In these kinds of hacking events, it is common for hackers to encrypt all your data and ask for a ransom in exchange for the decryption key.
If you are cautious about your data, ...
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