Summary and Quiz
Get a refresher of what you’ve learned about the security and compliance services provided by AWS in this chapter and take a quiz to validate your knowledge.
In this lesson, we’ll summarize what we’ve learned so far in this chapter and test our knowledge with a short quiz.
Summary
In this chapter, we learned about security services offered by AWS. Here’s a brief summary of the services we covered:
AWS KMS
KMS is used to manage encryption keys in AWS. There are two main types of KMS keys:
AWS-managed keys: These keys are generated and managed by AWS. They are generally related to an AWS service like S3, EBS.
Customer-managed keys: These keys are generated and managed by users. We have complete control over the configuration of these keys.
WAF
AWS WAF is a network firewall used to protect our applications from malicious access. We can configure related web ACLs to defend our resources from specific types of attacks, including XSS scripting, SQL injections, and Cross-site request forgery. WAF analyzes the request sent to the application and blocks any request that does not comply with the set ACL rules. ...