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SEC 6. How do you protect your compute resources?

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SEC 6. How do you protect your compute resources? - AWS Well-Architected Framework

Compute resources in your workload require multiple layers of defense to help protect from external and internal threats. Compute resources include EC2 instances, containers, AWS Lambda functions, database services, IoT devices, and more.

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