Hello, and welcome to this course where I shall be looking at how AWS provides a variety of different means of authentication. My name is Stuart Scott and I'm the AWS Content Director here at Cloud Academy. Feel free to connect with me to ask any questions using the details shown on the screen. Alternatively, you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an email to support@cloudacademy.com, where one of our cloud experts will reply to your question. 

This course has been created for those who are AWS administrators, security engineers, security architects, and anyone who is looking to increase their knowledge of security and authentication within AWS. By the end of this course, you will have a greater understanding of the different methods of authentication that can be implemented when using AWS. The difference between username and password and multi-factor authentication. How to configure MFA authentication. 

The process in which programmatic authentication is managed. How IAM roles can be used to authenticate and authorize EC2 instances to access resources. How key pairs are used to authenticate you to newly created EC2 instances, and the different options available with regard to Federated authentication. As a prerequisite to this course, you should have a basic understanding of AWS IAM and what the service is used for. It would also be advantageous if you had some basic hands-on experience of Amazon EC2, but this is not essential. 

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