This course is designed for large, or scaling organizations. It focuses on automating cloud governance to enhance security. This includes retiring manual processes in account management, budget enforcement, and security operations and compliance. These areas allow for governance without inhibiting agility, speed, or innovation. They also allow for decision makers with the visibility, control, and governance necessary to protect sensitive data and systems.
This course is designed for large, or scaling organizations. It focuses on automating cloud governance to enhance security. This includes retiring manual processes in account management, budget enforcement, and security operations and compliance. These areas allow for governance without inhibiting agility, speed, or innovation. They also allow for decision makers with the visibility, control, and governance necessary to protect sensitive data and systems.
What's included
1 reading3 plugins
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1 reading•Total 1 minute
Navigating this course•1 minute
3 plugins•Total 45 minutes
Course Welcome•15 minutes
Pre-Assessment•15 minutes
Overview of Governance at Scale Basics•15 minutes
Governance at Scale Management
Module 2•15 minutes to complete
Module details
This module covers the governance at scale focal points.
What's included
1 plugin
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1 plugin•Total 15 minutes
Governance at Scale Management•15 minutes
Governance Automation
Module 3•1 hour to complete
Module details
This module explores multi-account strategy, guidance, and architectures. It covers how to implement governance with AWS Control Tower and use cases for a governance at scale solutions.
What's included
1 plugin
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1 plugin•Total 60 minutes
Governance Automation•60 minutes
Preventive Controls
Module 4•2 hours to complete
Module details
This module explains how goals must be met while also enforcing the security and compliance requirements of an organization.
What's included
1 app item1 plugin
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1 app item•Total 60 minutes
Lab 1: Deploy Cloud Resources from AWS Service Catalog•60 minutes
1 plugin•Total 60 minutes
Preventive Controls•60 minutes
Detective Controls
Module 5•3 hours to complete
Module details
This module focuses on the operations aspect of governance at scale. In the previous module you learned learned about preventive controls, but how do you ensure that those resources stay properly configured, secured, and compliant? Can you identify and detect undesired changes on their configuration and compliance status? Once detected, what can you do about it?
What's included
2 app items1 plugin
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2 app items•Total 120 minutes
Lab 2: Taking Action with AWS Systems Manager•60 minutes
Lab 3: Compliance and Security Automation with AWS Config•60 minutes
1 plugin•Total 30 minutes
Detective Controls•30 minutes
Course Wrap Up
Module 6•1 hour to complete
Module details
In this course, you explored balancing control and agility in your environment, and ensuring compliance, including operational capabilities and cost management in AWS. Next, take the Post-Assessment which is designed to measure your knowledge of the topics learned throughout this course.
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Is financial aid available?
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