The “how” of security has dramatically changed with cloud computing, but the underlying strategies still remain very similar. There are many new opportunities to adopt the power and benefits of the cloud within our security strategies and programs and it has never been a better time to be a cybersecurity professional.

The underlying concepts are the same for all public cloud computing platforms, but the “how” of security varies based on each provider. Since AWS is still the dominant cloud service provider, I decided to share this example based on AWS today.

In the example in this article, we have a CloudWatch alarm monitoring EC2 instances and automatically recovering an instance via a Lambda function if a system’s status check fails due to loss of network connectivity. When an alarm is triggered and the recovery action is initiated, you will get an automated notification by Amazon SNS! Now that is pretty slick if you ask me.

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