This paper is intended for customers who want to improve resiliency of their applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The paper provides an overview of DDoS attacks, capabilities provided by AWS, mitigation techniques, and a DDoS-resilient reference architecture that can be used as a guide to help protect application availability.
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Introduction to AWS Security Processes
Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a scalable cloud computing platform with high availability and dependability, providing the tools that enable customers to run a wide range of applications. Helping to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our customers’ systems and data is of the utmost importance to AWS, as is maintaining customer trust and confidence. This document is intended […]
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Overview of AWS Security – Storage Services
Amazon Web Services provides low-cost data storage with high durability and availability. AWS offers storage choices for backup, archiving, and disaster recovery, as well as block and object storage.
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Overview of AWS Security – Database Services
Amazon Web Services provides a number of database solutions for developers and businesses— from managed relational and NoSQL database services, to in-memory caching as a service and petabyte-scale data-warehouse service.
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Overview of AWS Security – Compute Services
Not only is security built into every layer of the AWS infrastructure, but also into each of the services available on that infrastructure. AWS services are architected to work efficiently and securely with all AWS networks and platforms. Each service provides extensive security features to enable you to protect sensitive data and applications.
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Overview of AWS Security – Application Services
Amazon Web Services offers a variety of managed services to use with your applications, including services that provide application streaming, queueing, push notification, email delivery, search, and transcoding. [gra
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Overview of AWS Security – Analytics, Mobile and Application Services
Amazon Web Services provides cloud-based analytics services to help you process and analyze any volume of data, whether your need is for managed Hadoop clusters, real-time streaming data, petabyte scale data warehousing, or orchestration.
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