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Introduction
The course is part of these learning paths
Contents
Introduction
FaaS & IaaS
Summary
Description
Course Description
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, you will
- Understand and be able to distinguish between the pros and cons of serverless security
- Understand where to focus additional security controls in a FaaS solution
- Have a general overview of how security differs to that of a typical IaaS solution
Intended Audience
This content in this course would be beneficial to:
- Engineers who are focused on delivering secure serverless solutions within an enterprise environment
- Security architects looking to enhance their knowledge of FaaS solutions
- Developers deploying applications within a serverless environment
Prerequisites
As a prerequisite of this course you should have a basic knowledge and awareness of the following:
- A general understanding of what Serverless means
- Understand what FaaS and IaaS relates to
- A basic awareness of different attack vectors, such as DoS
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon Cognito
- Amazon API Gateway
- Security controls within IAM
This course includes
6 lectures
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About the Author
Stuart has been working within the IT industry for two decades covering a huge range of topic areas and technologies, from data centre and network infrastructure design, to cloud architecture and implementation.
To date Stuart has created over 40 courses relating to Cloud, most within the AWS category with a heavy focus on security and compliance
He is AWS certified and accredited in addition to being a published author covering topics across the AWS landscape.
In January 2016 Stuart was awarded ‘Expert of the Year Award 2015’ from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.
Stuart enjoys writing about cloud technologies and you will find many of his articles within our blog pages.