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Encryption, authentication, and transmission

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Encryption, authentication, and transmission

- [Instructor] Data governance and compliance is an important aspect of cloud security is to understand if you handle credit card data, for example, or medical data. In a lot of things, data encryption end to end and data encryption at rest are basically a requirement. When talking about data encryption at rest, you can think right away of KMS and S3. Keep in mind that S3 has its own way of encrypting data, so even though you can use KMS keys to encrypt data on S3, remember that S3 has its own way of encrypting data. Now, switching to the in-transit side is very simple. Just think of the ACM, which is the AWS certificate manager where you can get an SSL certificate for your application. If you have an application that does not use HTTPS, it's an old legacy application, you can still provide encryption in transit by using a network load balancer. Keep that in mind. Switching gears a little bit to authentication.…

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