AWS: Identity and Access Management

Overview

AWS: Identity and Access Management Course is the third course of Exam Prep SCS-C02: AWS Certified Security – Specialty Specialization. This course focuses on designing, implementing, and troubleshooting authentication and authorization for AWS resources. The course is divided into two modules and each module is further segmented by Lessons and Video Lectures. This course facilitates learners with approximately 2:00-2:30 Hours of Video lectures that provide both Theory and Hands-On knowledge. Also, Graded and Ungraded Quizzes are provided with every module in order to test the ability of learners. Module 1: Authorization in AWS Module 2: Authentication in AWS Module 3: Storage Security in AWS Two years of experience in troubleshooting issues involving AWS IAM and Amazon S3. Candidates being certified with AWS Solutions Architect Associate can prepare for this course and appear for the Security specialty exam. By the end of this course, a learner will be able to: - Explore policy evaluation and best practices by using AWS IAM. - Evaluate methods for managing identities and credentials in AWS - Troubleshoot authentication and authorization issues in AWS. - Design resource policies to restrict access to authorized users' using S3 bucket policies.

Syllabus

Authorization in AWS

Welcome to Week 1 of the AWS: Identity and Access Management Course. This week, we’ll learn IAM concepts like IAM Users, Roles, Policies and Groups. We'll also explore ways to secure multiple user accounts by evaluating IAM Policies. By the end of the week, we should have a good understanding of how to provide account security.

Authentication in AWS

Welcome to Week 2 of the AWS: Identity and Access Management Course. This week, we’ll learn to implement identity store to your web and mobile applications in AWS. We'll also explore methods to manage web identies using federation, identity providers, and Amazon Cognito. By the end of the week, we should have a good understanding of how to create and manage identities, along with implement, and troubleshoot authentication for AWS resources.

Storage Security in AWS

Welcome to Week 3 of the AWS: Identity and Access Management Course. This week, we’ll focus on the object storage and how to manage its access using access control lists and bucket policies. We will also explore techniques for encrypting S3 buckets and objects.