Last week, Justin covered some of the high level issues around AMI development. This week, we’re going to take a look at how to protect the guest operating system running on your EC2 and VPC instances. AWS Recommendations AWS had published quite a few papers around their services. AWS Security Best Practices [PDF] and AWS Risk and…
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In last week’s post, Protecting your resources with AWS Identity and Access Management, Justin covered the basics of AWS Identity Access Management (IAM). This week, we’re going to take a look at password policies and multi-factor authentication using IAM. Password Policies The value of a strong passwords is well known. Most organizations already have a password…
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