From the course: Complete Guide to the AWS Well-Architected Framework

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Security pillar overview

Security pillar overview - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: Complete Guide to the AWS Well-Architected Framework

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Security pillar overview

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- [Instructor] We know that the Well-Architected Framework is trying to help us understand the pros and the cons of any design decisions that we're making when we're starting to build systems to host our applications on AWS. The security pillar, obviously, is a little more focused on security, so we're looking at best practices for architecting our systems as securely as possible at AWS. They follow the format in this manner. First of all, we've got to make it secure. Next, we've got to make it reliable. Then after we've got security and reliability figured out, let's make it as fast as we can, but it always starts with security. So looking at the best practices for architecting your secure system means you have to look at what the recommendations are and decide if you agree. It may not match up with what you're trying to do at AWS, but getting that education is kind of imperative for making the right decision. So we want to protect the information used by our application, that data…

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