Securing a SaaS Application on AWS Cloud

Abstract

In the last few years, we have seen tremendous growth in cloud adoption and migration, especially the new emerging companies and startups in multiple domains who are embracing cloud technologies to avoid the on-premises costs of maintaining the servers. As organizations grow and invest in digital transformation every year, the cloud is becoming an ever more crucial part of the organization and getting integrated with multiple core services. It is highly recommended that they look at their cloud security components and make them secure and robust to avoid a cyber-attack. Year after year IT world has been witnessing a series of news headlines and data leaks that occurred because of cloud architecture misconfigurations. In this article, the authors demonstrated a few secured architectures on Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is one of the top cloud service providers in the world. This paper’s target is to educate and set up a guideline for a secured architecture baseline on AWS cloud adoption for new or existing customers to review their architecture and encourage them to deploy the security components on AWS. This paper provides a brief overview of the various architectures proposed and implemented that can act as a solution for handling the various issues related to cloud computing, especially cloud security.