Security and Microservice Architecture on AWS

Preface

There is no denying that security is important and the lack of it can cause significant destruction of value in otherwise growing organizations. To that extent, embedding security into the fabric of an organization’s culture is important. However, the culture of security should not be a culture of no. In my professional opinion, security professionals have gained a notorious reputation in many businesses as being the point of friction in value-adding activities. Security professionals should help developers in adding value and not getting in the way of value-adding activities.

I came across microservice architecture a few years ago, and after studying and implementing microservices in various organizations, I realized you could leverage some of the principles to aid in securing your application.

Goals of This Book

This book assumes that you already have a basic knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS), microservice architecture, and security, and you would like to figure out how you can make all three of these work with one another in order to unlock the synergistic value of your application.

Through this book, I hope to spread the knowledge of how security professionals and developers can work together to increase the value of enterprise applications. This book tries its best to come up with innovative solutions to security problems where security can be implemented through efficient design and simple solutions, and by leveraging the tools that AWS provides us.

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