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A detailed article that describes what Multi-Factor Authentication systems are, how they increase the security of the system they protect and what it means in the context of the AWS cloud.

Encrypting data at rest is a security best practice. RDS instances must also be encrypted. If you have an existing unencrypted RDS instance, this article will guide you on how you can migrate it to an encrypted one.

Exposing AWS RDS database instances to the internet is generally a bad security practice since it contains data meant to be consumed by specific instances only. If that is the case for you as well, follow this article to see how you can restrict access to your RDS Instances.

Public AWS RDS database snapshots are accessible to any AWS user. If you have created a public RDS snapshot that may contain sensitive or private information and would like to change it to a private snapshot, follow this step-by-step guide.

For any managed service on AWS, the more you rely on IAM for authentication and authorization, the more you reduce your attack surface. In this article, we will see how we can create users of various permission levels in an AWS EKS cluster and map the user to an AWS IAM user.

EBS volumes are not encrypted by default. Encrypting these adds a layer of security to the data stored on it.