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Security concerns

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- [Instructor] I've been playing it fast and loose with security throughout this course, and while that's fine for creating small examples that are easy to absorb in the context of learning, it is something to be aware of, so I just want to take this opportunity to explicitly call it out. I used HTTP instead of HTTPS, because this is a course on deployment, not a course on HTTPS. I used overly broad AWS permissions to help the demos flow more quickly. And I left my ECS cluster open to the world while I was recording. Security measures should always be taken in proportion to what they're protecting. Though it's really important to pay attention as what they're protecting grows, and when that calculus tips the other way. A few common best practices, don't store credentials in code. This one is so important to me, I didn't even do that in this course, even to shorten the examples. I've been burned. In this course we used instance roles for everything in AWS. We didn't store credentials…

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