Comments on: System hardening guidelines for Amazon EC2

By: Security and moving your private data into the public Cloud | jamieschuts

Security and moving your private data into the public Cloud | jamieschuts — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:46:55 +0000

[...] You should also lock down your virtual environment as you would a node running on an unsecure DMZ http://www.cloudiquity.com/2009/04/system-hardening-guidelines-for-amazon-ec2/. Consider encrypting all of the data you store on the [...]

By: Pether Sorling

Pether Sorling — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:52:19 +0000

No mention of running instances in amazon vpc, plan to run backoffice and database instances in different subnets.

By: Nico

Nico — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:25:44 +0000

I agree the filesystem should be encryption. However I would like to see some pointers to info on how to properly manage the key/password for an encrypted filesystem on EC2. If you’re not supposed to store your password in the image (I agree) then how do you make sure your filesystems are mounted properly at boot time?

By: Cloud Computing Links April 24, 2009 at Cloud Curious

Cloud Computing Links April 24, 2009 at Cloud Curious — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:44:03 +0000

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