AWS Security, Identity & Compliance

Amazon GuardDuty

Intelligent threat detection that monitors accounts and workloads for malicious activity.

What it is used for

  • Detecting compromised credentials
  • Spotting crypto-mining
  • Security alerts

Equivalent on Google Cloud

The closest Google Cloud service is Security Command Center: central security and risk management: misconfigurations, vulnerabilities and threats.

How DomainHostly helps with Amazon GuardDuty

  • Plan: choose the right setup, size and region for your workload and budget.
  • Set up securely: configure Amazon GuardDuty with least-privilege access, encryption and backups where they apply.
  • Migrate: move from shared hosting, your own servers or the other cloud with minimal downtime.
  • Run and optimise: monitoring, updates and regular cost reviews so you only pay for what you use.

Security, Identity & Compliance: Identity and access, encryption keys, secrets, firewalls, threat detection and compliance.

What to consider: Security, Identity & Compliance

  • Grant the least privilege needed and prefer roles or service accounts over long-lived keys.
  • Turn on multi-factor authentication for every administrator account.
  • Enable audit logs and threat detection from day one; they are hard to reconstruct after an incident.

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