Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority. At AWS Cloud, you benefit from a data center and network architecture that is built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations. Deep Dive on Securing your k8s cluster in the cloud and utilization of managed cloud services for the security of the cloud.
Security in the cloud includes:
- The security configuration of the data plane, including the configuration of the security groups that allow traffic to pass from the Amazon EKS control plane into the customer VPC.
- The configuration of the nodes and the containers themselves
- The node's operating system (including updates and security patches)
- Setting up and managing network controls, such as firewall rules
- The sensitivity of your data, your company's requirements, and applicable laws and regulations
- Safeguarding from different attacks.