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AWS Security Speciality

AWS Security Speciality certification preparation notes

Services to study

AWS Trusted Advisor

  • Inspects our AWS environments and makes recommendations where it deems necessary.
  • Works at an account level and makes recommendations based on your entire account. Categories: cost, optimization, performance, security, service limits, and fault tolerance.

AWS Guard Duty

  • Threat detection system. It doesn't prevent, only detects.
  • Continious security monitoring service that process data from multiple data sources, like Amazon CloudTrail and DNS logs.
  • It uses threat intelligence feeds and machine learning to identify and alert on potential malicious and unwanted action patterns.

AWS Inspector

  • Automatically assess our apps for exposures, vulnerabilities, amd best-practice compliance.
  • It generates findings; findings are detailed reports produced and reported via lists. They are prioritised via security levels. You can suppress findings via suppressions rules.
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