Summary

In this lesson, you learned about various features and services available in AWS to secure your servers, most notably, EC2 instances. We went through best practices to follow for EC2 security.

Alongside, we dove deep into various measures to follow for all use cases for securing your EC2 instances. These measures range from using IAM roles for all applications running on EC2 instances to managing operating system access to building threat protection layers in your multi-layered architectures and testing security for your EC2 instances with prior permission from AWS support.

You learned about Amazon Inspector, an automated security assessment managed service that integrates security assessment, identification, and remediation with development. This results in faster deployment and better agility for your development process. You learned about the various components of Amazon Inspector, such as agents, assessment template, findings, and so on, to help use this service for EC2 instances...