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Network security access control lists (ACLs) - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: CCSK Cert Prep: 2 Infrastructure Security for Cloud
Network security access control lists (ACLs)
- [Instructor] An important part of hardening or securing a host or a network is configuring firewall rules appropriately. We can do that with network security access control lists or ACLs in a variety of different cloud computing environments. A network ACL is a packet-filtering firewall rule that can be configured with rules that either allow or deny traffic. Now, the direction of the traffic could be inbound. It could be traffic coming into, for example, a virtual network in the cloud, or we can have a rule apply to control outbound traffic. Now we associate network access control lists with cloud resources such as a virtual NIC. This is a virtual network interface card that ultimately would be associated with a virtual machine in the cloud. And so it would control network traffic into and out of that network card for that virtual machine. We can also associate network access control lists with an entire virtual…
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