Cloud Security Monitoring on AWS

Cloud services adoption is growing massively year over year. In most cases, moving to the cloud decision is driven by cost optimization goals. Organizations usually start the cloud journey with the lift-and-shift approach, migrating the datacenter as-is, including the security services and controls, even the physical appliances, to the equivalent virtual appliances from the respective vendor. In some cases, the security controls used on- premises are not as effective with cloud services. Moreover, in some other cases, it can be expensive as well. This paper illustrates Amazon Web Services (AWS) security services a security professional can use to aid the cloud service's continuous security monitoring operations.