I was exploring Docker and accidentally enabled the 'Start Docker Offload' feature. It's meant to be secure, but after checking my firewall logs, I saw traffic being routed over port 80 to something related to 'amazoneaws'. Is this normal behavior for a secure connection?
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Seeing traffic to Amazon AWS is pretty common since many services and hosted runners operate there. Just because it's using port 80 doesn’t necessarily mean it’s insecure. The key is whether the data is being encrypted, like with HTTPS, rather than just relying on the port number itself.
Gotcha! So if it’s encrypted, I shouldn’t worry too much about port 80 then?