Q: 6
A company has deployed an application in a production VPC in a single AWS account. The application
is popular and is experiencing heavy usage. The company’s security team wants to add additional
security, such as AWS WAF, to the application deployment. However, the application's product
manager is concerned about cost and does not want to approve the change unless the security team
can prove that additional security is necessary.
The security team believes that some of the application's demand might come from users that have
IP addresses that are on a deny list. The security team provides the deny list to a DevOps engineer. If
any of the IP addresses on the deny list access the application, the security team wants to receive
automated notification in near real time so that the security team can document that the application
needs additional security. The DevOps engineer creates a VPC flow log for the production VPC.
Which set of additional steps should the DevOps engineer take to meet these requirements MOST
cost-effectively?
Options
Discussion
Option A. Similar practice questions point to CloudWatch Logs with a metric filter as the fastest and cheapest alerting option for this scenario.
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