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Amazon EC2 network security

Amazon EC2 network security - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Amazon EC2 network security

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- [Instructor] Amazon EC2 provides a suite of services and features to secure data in transit or address. These security features allow you to set up a secure connection to your EC2 instance, control incoming and outgoing traffic to your servers, or provide permissions for your instance to access other AWS services. In this lecture, we'll talk about the two network security features in Amazon EC2. These are the security groups and network access control lists. Let's begin. A network access control list or network ACL for short is a security feature to protect the subnets of your VPC from unauthorized traffic. It acts as a firewall to control the traffic that is coming in or out of your subnets. One VPC can have one or more subnets and each subnet must be associated with at least one network ACL. This where your EC2 instances are launched. Each subnet resides entirely with one availability zone only. As we have discussed before, an availability zone is composed of two or more data…

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