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Infrastructure security in Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

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As a managed service, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is protected by AWS global network security. For information about AWS security services and how AWS protects infrastructure, see AWS Cloud Security. To design your AWS environment using the best practices for infrastructure security, see Infrastructure Protection in Security Pillar AWS Well‐Architected Framework.

You use AWS published API calls to access Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling through the network. Clients must support the following:

  • Transport Layer Security (TLS). We require TLS 1.2 and recommend TLS 1.3.

  • Cipher suites with perfect forward secrecy (PFS) such as DHE (Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman) or ECDHE (Elliptic Curve Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman). Most modern systems such as Java 7 and later support these modes.

Additionally, requests must be signed by using an access key ID and a secret access key that is associated with an IAM principal. Or you can use the AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) to generate temporary security credentials to sign requests.

You can also use a virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoint for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. Interface VPC endpoints enable your Amazon VPC resources to use their private IP addresses to access Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling with no exposure to the public internet. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and interface VPC endpoints

For information on features for isolating service traffic provided by Amazon EC2, see Infrastructure security in Amazon EC2 in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

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