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Managing incident response

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Managing incident response

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- [Instructor] When it comes to managing a response to a security breach or incident, we also have to take a look at how Amazon architects their services to actually handle when they get under attack. Because of course when they get under attack, we get under attack. First up, a managed service, regardless of the managed service, is a massive server farm. That massive server farm is spread typically across a number of buildings within the region. The service is monitored. If it's under attack, it scales out. So it can scale on demand to get bigger. Particularly public facing services like the API gateway or load balancers or S3 storage. If anything gets under attack at AWS, it has to respond. So it has to scale bigger, and that's just what it does. So using an elastic load balancer to front your application can help mitigate attacks 'cause it's built to be under load, under unexpected load, and hopefully your application sitting behind it is built to scale up and down as well. If I'm…

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