AWS Security Best Practices

A checklist for Cloud Admins to live by

In today’s fast-paced digital world, securing cloud resources is a top priority for organizations. As more and more businesses adopt the cloud, they must level up their traditional IT strategy to face new attack surfaces on the cloud, protect sensitive data, maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of resources, and comply with regulatory requirements.

In this blog post, we’ll delve into the key security best practices that organizations can follow to secure their AWS cloud environment.

#1 — Secure Identity & Access Management (IAM)

AWS IAM Resources Breakdown (Image: msp360.com)

AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) is one of the most crucial services that contribute to the overall security of your AWS infrastructure. Here are some ways to enforce and increase security for AWS IAM accounts.

✅ Set a strong password policy: Enforce the use of strong and unique passwords for all IAM users, and rotate them regularly.

$ aws iam get-account-password-policy
{
    "PasswordPolicy": {
        "MinimumPasswordLength": 12,
        "RequireSymbols": true,
        "RequireNumbers": true,
        "RequireUppercaseCharacters": true,
        "RequireLowercaseCharacters": true,
        "AllowUsersToChangePassword"…