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COURSE
Intermediate
16m 37s
How AWS IAM is Used to Securely Manage Access
This lesson provides an overview of the AWS Identity & Access Management Service, commonly referred to as IAM, along with its core features.
COURSE
Intermediate
24m 55s
Managing User Identities with Long Term Credentials in AWS IAM
This lesson explains how to manage your user identities when using the AWS Identity and Access Management Service, commonly referred to as IAM.
COURSE
Intermediate
34m 38s
Managing Access using IAM User Groups & Roles
This lesson explores some of the security best practices when using user groups and roles and how these can help you secure access to your resources more effectively.
COURSE
Intermediate
36m 39s
Using IAM Policies to Define and Manage Permissions
This lesson covers how IAM Policies can be used to allow you to grant and restrict access to your resources within your AWS account, as well as the different types of policies and how to interpret a policy.
HANDS-ON LAB
Intermediate
Up to 1h 15m
Advanced Roles and Groups Management Using IAM
Learn how to manage our organization using IAM Users and Groups and IAM Roles 
EXAM
Up to 35m
Knowledge Check: Overview of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Knowledge Check: Overview of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
COURSE
Intermediate
9m 14s
The Difference Between Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control in AWS
This lesson explores the differences between authentication, authorization, and access control in order to control access to your cloud resources effectively and with the appropriate level of security.
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With Security being one of the hottest topics within the Cloud industry today, Access and Key Management is often highlighted, questioned, and misunderstood. 

This course 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.

If you have any feedback relating to this course, please contact us at support@cloudacademy.com. 

Learning Objectives

  • Understand what AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM) is and how to implement it
  • Learn how to manage our organization using IAM Users and Groups and IAM Roles
  • Learn about security mechanisms around AWS Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting using a variety of services
  • Understand the responsibility between AWS and the customer when architecting both abstract and container services
  • Learn the basics of KMS
  • Learn about the S3 encryption and decryption process for S3 Managed Keys, KMS Managed Keys, and Customer Provided Keys
  • Learn the fundamentals of CloudHSM

Intended Audience

This course has been designed for AWS administrators, security engineers, security architects, or anyone who is looking to increase their knowledge of access and key management security.

Prerequisites

To get the most from this course, you should already have some basic hands-on experience of AWS and its services, although it's not essential.

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Stuart has been working within the IT industry for two decades covering a huge range of topic areas and technologies, from data center and network infrastructure design, to cloud architecture and implementation.

To date, Stuart has created 250+ courses relating to cloud computing reaching over 1 million+ students.

Stuart is a member of the AWS Community Builders Program for his contributions towards AWS.

He is AWS certified and accredited in addition to being a published author covering topics across the AWS landscape.

Stuart enjoys writing about cloud technologies and you will find many of his articles within our blog pages.

Covered Topics

Encryption
Identity and Access Management
Management
Security
Amazon Web Services
Security for AWS
Management for AWS
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
AWS Key Management Service (KMS)