From dbf1098938739f9795983564cc571869e24dc0c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: markofu Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:28:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Added section on EC2 --- draft/core/security.txt | 7 +++++++ draft/tutorial/configure-linux-iptables-firewall.txt | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/draft/core/security.txt b/draft/core/security.txt index d6b31252c90..13566fe605d 100644 --- a/draft/core/security.txt +++ b/draft/core/security.txt @@ -184,6 +184,13 @@ capabilities are important: - limiting incoming traffic from untrusted hosts. +For AWS instances, please refer to the following documentation: + +- :wiki:`Amazon+EC2` wiki 652 page." + +which covers using Security Groups and other security features +within EC2. + On Linux systems, the ``iptables`` interface provides access to the underlying ``netfilter`` firewall. On Windows systems ``netsh`` command line interface provides access to the underlying Windows diff --git a/draft/tutorial/configure-linux-iptables-firewall.txt b/draft/tutorial/configure-linux-iptables-firewall.txt index 0faca6efce1..caaf218660a 100644 --- a/draft/tutorial/configure-linux-iptables-firewall.txt +++ b/draft/tutorial/configure-linux-iptables-firewall.txt @@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ Configure Linux ``iptables`` Firewall for MongoDB ================================================= +Note: For AWS instances, please refer to the following documentation: + +- :wiki:`Amazon+EC2` wiki 652 page." + +which covers using Security Groups and other security features +within EC2." + The ``iptables`` program manages the firewall rules on Linux and typically comes built in with each Linux distribution. For this article we only need to worry about two ``iptables`` chains: