AWS Skills Centers: Becoming a Cloud Practitioner - Part 3 - Identities, Security, and Monitoring the AWS Cloud
Expands on networking and compute foundations to cover AWS security, governance, and application development. Students implement IAM, configure permissions, apply the shared responsibility model, and use AWS security and monitoring services following the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
What you'll learn
- Understand AWS shared responsibility model and securing in-the-cloud components
- Implement IAM identities, MFA, roles, and permissions
- Use CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, and CodeDeploy for application deployment
- Improve global availability and performance with CloudFront, Outposts, and scaling tools
- Apply AWS security services for threat detection, DDoS protection, and WAF
- Monitor and audit workloads using CloudTrail and CloudWatch following Well-Architected best practices
Skills you'll gain
- Understand the AWS shared responsibility model and how to secure in-the-cloud components
- Use AWS identity services such as IAM, MFA, and roles to manage access
- Leverage CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, and CodeDeploy for application development and deployment
- Improve global reliability and performance using CloudFront, Outposts, Auto Scaling, and load balancing
- Apply AWS security services for threat detection, DDoS protection, and web application firewalls
- Implement operational excellence practices including automation and monitoring with CloudTrail and CloudWatch
- Apply AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices for security, reliability, performance, and cost optimization
Prerequisites
- • Understanding basic computer and internet skills
- • Understanding networking and server concepts
- • Understanding of AWS Global Infrastructure and AWS networking services
- • Understanding of Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, and Amazon EFS
- • Completion of Computer Foundations Series Parts 1-4 (recommended)
- • Completion of Becoming a Cloud Practitioner Parts 1-2 (recommended)
Who this course is for
- → Individuals who are curious about AWS Cloud technologies
- → Individuals in both technical and non-technical roles
- → Individuals looking to reskill for the AWS Cloud
- → Business decision makers
Provider
AWS Training & Certification
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