Maintaining governance and compliance within the cloud is just as important as maintaining it on-premise. Almost all organizations are required to meet specific regulations and specifications from both an internal and external perspective, which affect their IT solutions which must be monitored and implemented effectively. 

This compliance may include certification and regulations such as ISO, HIPPA, or PCI DSS which often involve controls against security and data protection.

AWS provides a number of tools and services to help you implement, govern and control your environment to ensure you are able to confidently apply the relevant deployments, policies, and procedures to adhere to any requirements needed.  

This AWS Governance & Compliance learning path has been designed to give you an understanding and an overview of Cloud governance and compliance within AWS and the Cloud. It will look at governance, risk, and compliance allowing you to understand what those three elements are defined as, before looking deeper into the different AWS services and how these can be utilized to help you maintain your AWS infrastructure based on those elements.

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Learning Objectives

• Understand how to plan for the security of your application on a cloud provider
• Learn how to monitor your cloud infrastructure
• Understand how AWS Config allows you to have visibility of your entire AWS infrastructure from a configuration perspective
• Get an understanding of AWS CloudTrail
• Use Amazon Macie to ensure compliance and security in your cloud environments

Intended Audience

This learning path is designed for cloud security architects, compliance managers, cloud administrators, or anyone who wants to learn how to introduce governance and compliance practices in their cloud environments.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this learning path, you should have a basic understanding of AWS and its essential services.