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Infrastructure Security – Keeping Your VPC secure

Welcome to the second chapter of our comprehensive journey into AWS security. This chapter focuses on the critical aspects of AWS infrastructure security, with a particular emphasis on creating and maintaining secure virtual private clouds (VPCs). First, we will guide you through the process of designing secure VPCs tailored to specific use cases. Next, we will navigate through the implementation of security groups, network access control lists (NACLs), and AWS Network Firewall, ensuring a robust defense mechanism is in place. Finally, we will examine advanced security offerings such as AWS Shield and AWS WAF to augment the protection of your VPC resources.

By the end of this chapter, you will ...

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