- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Preface
- Getting started
- Installation prerequisites
- Deploying the Cyber Recovery solution
- Using Cyber Recovery on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Monitoring the Cyber Recovery deployment with Amazon CloudWatch
Review the general requirements for deploying Cyber Recovery to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Follow Amazon Web Services (AWS) best practices to ensure proper security.
To deploy Cyber Recovery to AWS, you must have an AWS account. To set up an account, go to Getting Started with AWS.
AWS recommends that you create an identity and access management (IAM) user or role for authenticating with AWS. Never use root credentials to deploy a CloudFormation template. The IAM user must be allowed to perform AWS CloudFormation actions.
The following links provide more information about AWS best practices:
Amazon recommends that you enable AWS CloudTrail logs to enable governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing of your AWS account. AWS CloudTrail enables you to do the following:
This event history helps to simplify security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting.
The following links provide more information:
The following links provide more information about AWS service limits and restrictions:
The following additional links provide more information about the AWS features that are used with a Cyber Recovery deployment: