AWS Access & Key Management Security
Description
Overview
With Security being one of the hottest topics within the Cloud industry today, Access and Key Management is often highlighted, questioned and misunderstood.
This learning path on AWS Access & Key Management Security has been designed to help you understand how AWS implements and manages access to its resources from an Identity, key management, and best practice perspective.
It will focus on the Identity & Access Management Service (IAM) and all of its features and how they operate together to provide secure access management to your resources. You will also gain a deeper understanding of how these features operate from an authentication, authorization and access control stance.
Security best practices will be covered across a range of abstract and container services, plus how the Key Management Service (KMS) and CloudHSM service can be used to manage and control the use of encryption keys and the benefits and considerations when doing so.
Instructors for this learning path:
Stuart Scott
- AWS: Overview of Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- Understanding of AWS Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
- AWS Security Best Practices: Abstract and Container Services
Tom Lynch
- Amazon Web Services – Key Management Service (KMS)
- Amazon Web Services - CloudHSM
Updates:
- April 6, 2018 - Added Learning Path Exam
- September 21st 2018 - Added Course 'Understanding S3 Encryption Mechanisms to secure your data'
Certificate
Learning Path Steps
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Knowledge Check: Overview of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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Exam: Access & Key Management Security on AWS
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.