Additional Services and Practices for AWS Security

We have looked into many security-related concepts and services throughout this book. There are still more security services and practices that can help us make our AWS infrastructure secure. In this chapter, we will look into some of these additional services and practices that are worth paying attention to. Unlike other chapters, we will not go very deep into these services. You can refer to the links provided in the See also section for further learning. We will learn about some security-related managed services such as AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM), AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Trusted Advisor, and AWS Artifact. We will also see how we can use Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and security products from AWS Marketplace.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Setting up and using AWS RAM
• Storing sensitive data with the Systems Manager Parameter Store
• Using AWS...