Hello and welcome to this course which will look at the different options available to you to enable you to authenticate to both your Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB Databases.

Before we start I’d like to introduce myself, my name is Stuart Scott, and I am the AWS content and security lead 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 e-mail to support@cloudacademy.com where one of our Cloud experts will reply to your question.

This course has been designed to assist those who are responsible for securing, designing, and operating AWS Database solutions, also it would be advantageous to anyone who is looking to take the AWS Certified Database - Specialty exam.

The objectives of this course are to:

• Define the differences between authentication and authorization  
• Highlight the key components of IAM used for access control and authentication
• Explain the authentication methods used to access RDS databases across different DB engines
• Explain the authentication controls of Amazon DynamoDB

As a prerequisite to this course, it would be beneficial to have a basic awareness of AWS database services, in addition to AWS Identity & Access Management. For more information on these services, please see our existing courses here:

AWS Database Fundamentals: https://cloudacademy.com/course/database-fundamentals-part-one-1064/course-introduction/

AWS: Overview of AWS Identity & Access Management: https://cloudacademy.com/course/overview-of-aws-identity-and-access-management-iam/

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