Amazon Web Service Microservice Security Analysis

Abstract

The increase in the use of information systems, of communications through the Internet in recent decades and the possibility of sharing data instantly have brought with them terms such as cybersecurity, since, from the beginning, there have been unscrupulous people who want to obtain confidential information, that is why new attack vectors are invented every year and with it new methods to persuade them, there is currently a growing boom on technologies based on microservices and cloud computing, this due to its high scalability, maintainability and facility to create infrastructure safely. Amazon web services offers various services that allow you to convert simple platforms into robust applications with different connections, using different technologies and databases, as well as allowing you to add security to both the applications and the data, this last concept is the main source of any system. This is why in this article an exploration of the encryption on databases and documents is made, using AWS services such as Key management server, Relational database service and S3, at the end it will be found that the encrypted files and databases will not be readable by malicious people, in case an attack materializes.