SVS302: Architecting Secure Serverless Applications

Resources for SVS302: Architecting secure serverless applications

This session explores how to think about security from the front to the back of a typical serverless application. How do you configure AWS serverless services to provide least-privileged access while helping to ensure functionality? How should you think about managing IAM policies for your AWS Lambda functions? This session covers all of this and more, leaving you with concrete examples applicable to almost any workload.

Security overview of AWS Lambda

White paper

This free whitepaper approaches the AWS Lambda service through a security lens. It discusses cloud security best practices and provides a detailed look into the underpinnings of AWS Lambda for developers, security analysts, compliance teams, and other stakeholders.

Security overview of Amazon API Gateway

White paper

This free whitepaper approaches the Amazon API Gateway service through a security lens.

Serverless Security Workshop

Workshop

In this workshop, you will learn techniques to secure a serverless application built with AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway and RDS Aurora. We will cover AWS services and features you can leverage to improve the security of a serverless applications across five domains.

Securely retrieving secrets with AWS Lambda

Blog post

AWS Lambda functions often need to access secrets, such as certificates, API keys, or database passwords. This post describes approaches to managing and retrieving those secrets when working with AWS Lambda.

Permission boundaries example

Sample code

A sample IAM permissions boundary as a starting point for creating your own permissions boundary to meet the security needs of your organization.

AWS Lambda Powertools for Python

Adopt best practices

A suite of utilities for AWS Lambda functions to ease adopting best practices such as tracing, structured logging, custom metrics, idempotency, batching, and more.

Presented by:

Josh Kahn

Josh Kahn

Principal Solution Architect @ AWS.