Infrastructure security in Amazon Quick - Amazon Quick
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Infrastructure security in Amazon Quick

   Intended audience: Amazon Quick administrators 

Quick is delivered as a web application, hosted on dedicated Amazon EC2 hosts, separate from Amazon virtual private clouds (VPCs). Instead of deploying Amazon Quick on your own hosts, you access the Amazon Quick service through Regional public endpoints. Amazon Quick accesses data sources over a secured internet connection from Regional endpoints. To access data sources that are located inside a corporate network, configure the network to allow access from one of the Amazon Quick public IP address blocks. We recommend that you consider using a VPC (a virtual network dedicated to your Amazon account).

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As a managed service, Quick is protected by the Amazon global network security procedures that are described in the Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Processes paper.

If you use Amazon published API calls to access Amazon Quick through the network, clients must support Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 or later. Clients must also support cipher suites with perfect forward secrecy (PFS) such as Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (DHE) or Elliptic Curve Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (ECDHE). 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 Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) principal. Or you can use the Amazon Security Token Service (Amazon STS) to generate temporary security credentials to sign requests.

You can call these API operations from any network location, but Amazon Quick does support resource-based access policies, which can include restrictions based on the source IP address. You can also use Amazon Quick policies to control access from specific Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints or specific VPCs. Effectively, this isolates network access to a given Amazon Quick resource from only the specific VPC within the Amazon network. For more information on using Amazon Quick in a VPC, see Connecting to a Amazon VPC with Amazon Quick.