Chapter 2: Securing Compute Services
Speaking about cloud services, specifically Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), the most common resource everyone talks about is compute – from the traditional virtual machines (VMs), through managed databases (run on VMs on the backend), to modern compute architecture such as containers and eventually serverless.
This chapter will cover all types of compute services and provide you with best practices on how to securely deploy and manage each of them.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Securing VMs (authentication, network access control, metadata, serial console access, patch management, and backups)
- Securing Managed Database Services (identity management, network access control, data ...
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