Build Up AWS Security Skills

About

AWS Jam is a gamified experiential learning platform that helps you develop your AWS cloud skills through simulated real-world cases. During this Jam Journey, you are going to challenge your AWS Security skills by solving various scenarios created by AWS experts. The course is available for a three-month period to give you time to complete all the challenges at your own pace and schedule.

Level: Intermediate

Intended Audience  

This Jam Journey is intended for anyone interested in building their AWS Security skills through real-world challenges. 

Learning Objectives

In this Jam Journey, you will learn to:

• Perform a security posture evaluation
• Restore a previous version of a static website
• Evaluate an AWS Lambda function
• Encrypt an existing Amazon RDS database with a customer-managed AWS KMS key
• Use AWS KMS keys to secure environment variables in AWS Lambda functions
• Use AWS Secrets Manager to store the password of an AWS Directory Services Admin account and rotate it at a specified frequency
• Understand how to lock down AWS Lambda function's resource policy to specific entities
• Find any unnecessary permissions and harden the AWS IAM policy attached to the AWS Lambda Execution Role
• Work through a security incident of compromised AWS IAM credentials by following a trail of activity within AWS CloudTrail

Services Used in the ChallengesAmazon EC2  Amazon S3AWS IAM AWS Secrets ManagerAmazon Key Management Service (KMS)Amazon VPC AWS Lambda AWS CloudTrail Amazon RDS Amazon CloudWatch AWS Directory Service Amazon CloudFormation

 

Prerequisites

We recommend that learners of this Jam Journey have basic knowledge of common data center architectures and components (servers, networking, databases, applications, and so on) plus experience using the AWS administrative console.