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AWS Certified Security – Specialty SCS-C03 · Domain 5: Data Protection

Encryption in transit: TLS certificates from ACM, ELB security policies, enforcing aws:SecureTransport and inter-node encryption

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Encryption in transit protects data as it moves between users, services and nodes, so it cannot be read or changed on the network. On AWS that mostly means Transport Layer Security (TLS), plus encryption features built into specific services.

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