Using and Managing AWS - Part 3: AWS Security | Cloud Computing Info

Using and Managing AWS - Part 3: AWS Security Cloud Computing Info: "Only present web servers to the internet. You have the option of not having a public IP address on every instance. If you have amulti-tier application, you can choose to have a public IP address on your web server and have just an internal IP address on your database server. To access the database server, you would have to log into the web server and then ssh from there to the databaseserver.
Another option is to encrypt all of your stored data (or at least the sensitive portions of it). Amazon offers Linux, Windows and Sunvirtual machines and all of these operating systems offer very robust (at least via third party tools) encryption. A very good, freeoption on windows servers is TrueCrypt"