Setting up a new AWS account with out-of-the-box settings is an excellent start for your cloud journey. This guide identifies best practices when setting up a new AWS account or applied to an existing account.
Use a distribution/group email address to register for the account.
The email used to create the AWS account has complete control of all AWS resources. Consider creating an account with a group/distribution email address with all the people who should have root access.
If you have already registered for an account with an individual email, you can update the root user name with a distribution list.
Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on Root Account
As a best practice, all root accounts should enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Configure using a virtual MFA device like Microsoft or Google Authenticator.
You can take a screenshot of the QR code and save it in a secure location or as an attachment in your password manager.
Create a password policy
Customize your password policy that aligns with your organizational password policies. Ensure that
– Increase the password length to at least 14 characters
– Require at least one upper case alphabet, number, and a symbol
– Disallow password reuse and set the password reuse to 24.
Create IAM Users with Console Login
Avoid using the root account for day-to-day operations. Create IAM users with admin access for all administrative privileges. Assign users to groups rather than assigning permissions directly to the users. Enable Multi-Factor authentication uses for all console users.
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Proper data security is always a concern, whether your data is on-premise or on the cloud.
Here are some of the best practices for securing your data on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
While this list is not comprehensive, this would be a good starting point for implementing basic security on the AWS platform.Security is a shared responsibility between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its customers operating a digital commerce business.
AWS is responsible for the security OF the cloud, and the customer is responsible for the security IN the cloud.
This model clearly defines who is responsible for securing the resources when using AWS.Protect your Root AccountEnable root account with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).Use root account to create IAM admin users, and AVOID using the root user account for actions that do not need the root account access.Console UsersUser AWS Single Sign-On or use your corporate identity solution to avoid creating multiple IAM user accounts.Implement Password policies to enforce users to have strong passwords by defining minimum requirements for the password.Enable MFA for all console users.Rotate keys older than 90 days for all IAM users.Enable AWS ConfigThe first step to securing your environment is to create an asset inventory.
Config enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate configurations of the AWS services deployed in the account.
To deliver patient-centeric care, organizations in the heavily-regulated healthcare industry—from providers and payers to healthtech—need to increase the pace of innovation and unlock the potential of data, while keeping health information secure and private.AWS offers a broad portfolio of cloud services and partner solutions engineered to help health organizations deliver better patient outcomes, while accelerating digitization and use of their data.For the past fifteen years AWS and a dedicated teams of healthcare professionals have collaborated with health organizations and industry experts to design and deploy solutions with a one central goal in mind: improving patient outcomes.I.
Using AWS solutions that collect, store, manage and share data across the continuum of care, healthcare organizations can save on costs, improve performances, and automate routine core processes, effectively removing burdens from clinicians and improving patient care.Electronic Health Records: Teleglobal works with healthcare providers to incorporate AWS EHR solutions to improve clinical, financial applications using next-gen tech like NLP, ML and Voice to reduce the burden on administration and improve the experience for both patient and clinician.Medical Imaging: Improving quality of medical images demands equally high capacity for storage and access to imaging data.
Teleglobal can help you address expanding storage needs by migrating images to the cloud.
Result: lower total cost and enhanced ability to derive insights that optimize patient careClinical GenomicsWith AWS and AWS Partner solutions you can unearth insights in genomics that can help diagnoses and treatment for patients.II.
Analytics & AI/MLData is a resourse and AWS and its Partner’s solutions provide analytics and ML tools to hep healthcare organizations glean insights from their data.
Leverage AWS’s services for vision, transcription, NLP, and ML platform to address a range of issues from controlling healthcare costs to mitigating staff burnout.Reporting on Key MetricsUtilize AWS analytic tools for transparent reporting on metrics that can help organizations monitor and manage quality of care, from reducing re-admissions to eliminating hospital-acquired complications to meeting regulation compliances.Optimizing OperationsOptimizing operations will help drive down healthcare waste and thus costs.
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