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Amazon Web Services

Securing the Endpoint

Amazon Web Services and Amazon via AWS Skill Builder

Overview

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In this lab, you create a custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that contains various configuration changes. You then deploy a new instance from the custom AMI and use user data scripts to the instance to add a new user specific to the function of the instance. You then learn how to use AWS Systems Manager to keep your instances patched. Finally, you use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) encryption and security group rules to protect company data at rest and in transit.


Level

Intermediate


Duration

1 Hours 15 Minutes


Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Create a custom AMI
  • Deploy a new EC2 instance from a custom AMI
  • Patch an EC2 instance using AWS Systems Manager
  • Encrypt an EBS volume
  • Understand how EBS encryption works and how it impacts other operations, such as snapshots
  • Use security groups to limit traffic between EC2 instances to only that which is encrypted


Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

  • DevOps Engineers
  • Security Engineers


Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

  • Familiar with basic navigation of the AWS Management Console
  • Comfortable running commands in a Linux command line interface (CLI)


Course Outline

  • Task 1: Create a custom AMI from an existing EC2 instance
  • Task 2: Deploy a new EC2 instance from a custom AMI
  • Task 3: Patch instances with AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager
  • Task 4: Protect data at rest

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