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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure
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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

by Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
690 pages
16h
English
Packt Publishing
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Tips and best practices

Here's a list of a few essential tips and best practices that you ought to keep in mind when working with AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, and security in general:

  • Analyze and audit security configurations periodically: Although AWS provides a variety of services for safeguarding your cloud environment, it is the organization's mandate to ensure that the security rules are enforced and periodically verified against any potential misconfigurations.
  • Complete audit trail for all users: Ensure that all resource creation, modifications, and terminations are tracked minutely for each user, including root, IAM, and federated users.
  • Enable CloudTrail globally: By enabling logging at a global level, CloudTrail can essentially capture ...
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