AWS Security Fundamentals: A Practical Guide to AWS IAM

Beginner

20 Lessons

1h 30min

Certificate of Completion

How to Write Policies, Control Access, and Secure an AWS Account

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This course includes

24 Quizzes
60 Code Snippets
63 Illustrations

This course includes

24 Quizzes
60 Code Snippets
63 Illustrations

Course Overview

This course is about how AWS IAM works and how to write policies to control access in an AWS account. In this course, you will learn how AWS APIs work, explore different parts of the requests made to the APIs and elaborates on how access is determined. Additionally, you will dive into how to configure access inside AWS by describing the policy structure and the 5 policy types AWS supports. Further, you will become familiar with how the elements in the request and the policies fit together. You will also de...Show More

What You'll Learn

Learn how to write policies to control access in an AWS account.

Learn about AWS APIs and how to configure access by understanding the policy structure of AWS.

Understand how IAM evaluates access with some realistic examples.

Learn how to secure an AWS account using best practices and potential pitfalls.

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