From the course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Cert Prep: 2 Security and Compliance

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Study break: Reviewing security services

Study break: Reviewing security services

- [Instructor] We went over quite a few security services in this section. Let's quickly review them to refresh your minds. AWS Assistance Manager is an IT administration service that allows you to safely manage your AWS resources in the cloud, multi-cloud, or hybrid environments from one central service, automating processes like patching and resource changes, identifying issues quickly, and sometimes even remediating these issues before they affect users, and centralizing operational data for easier review. AWS web application firewall or AWS WAF is, as the name suggests, a firewall service for web applications running on AWS. It protects web applications from common web exploits, provides web traffic visibility and delivers increased security against web attacks. AWS Shield protects your web applications from distributed denial of service or DDOS attacks by providing detection and automatic mitigations of DDOS attacks, helping to minimize the damage to your system and wallet…

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