Amazon Web Services is the lead Cloud Computing provider in the public cloud market. Organizations are rapidly moving their applications to AWS Cloud because of the cost, elasticity, easily accessible and on-demand provisioning and many more features that Amazon introduced step-by-step during the last years.
The computing resources are available from anywhere in the world with a single click on the console or APIs or SDKs. Because of this easy accessibility security becomes a challenge for the Cloud Providers and as well as the Consumers.
Recently, an unauthorized person had gained access to the Code Spaces AWS console and completely deleted their computing resources, data, volumes, snapshots and configurations. Because of this Code Spaces shutdown their operations completely and issued a public notice to all their customers saying that “Code Spaces will not be able to operate beyond this point,” citing the price of resolving the issue, as well as the expected cost of refunding paying customers. This attack put the Code Spaces in an irreversible position both financially and in terms of ongoing credibility.
So in Public Cloud, security becomes a key component to secure your resources. Organizations should employ known security consultants and follow best practices to manage their cloud workloads effectively.
In this article, I am putting some of the best practices that everyone should apply immediately to their organizations AWS account and resources.
We will cover more about the AWS security in future blog posts. Visit Cloud Academy’s Training Library on Cloud Security to keep your cloud environment secure and compliant.
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