Amazon Web Services

AWS Security Engineer Advanced Professional Certificate

Amazon Web Services

AWS Security Engineer Advanced Professional Certificate

For a Security Engineer Role Using the AWS Cloud.

Prepare for AWS Certified Security - Specialty certification.

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Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
Intermediate level
Some related experience required
4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
Intermediate level
Some related experience required
4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Explain the fundamental concepts of security governance, compliance strategies, and centralized account management through AWS Organizations.

  • Implement IAM policies, network security, edge security measures, and encryption to protect applications in the AWS Cloud.

  • Evaluate detection and response services to develop and execute an incident response plan in the AWS cloud environment.

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September 2026

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Professional Certificate - 18 course series

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Security Controls
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Security Engineering
Category: Public Cloud
Category: Security Awareness
Category: Security Management
Category: Infrastructure Security
Category: Security Architecture Review
Category: Cloud Engineering
Category: Cloud Computing Architecture
Category: IT Security Architecture
Category: Security Strategy
Category: Amazon Web Services

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Compliance Management
Category: Security Strategy
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Cloud Management
Category: Auditing
Category: Security Management
Category: Compliance Auditing
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Enterprise Security
Category: Compliance Reporting
Category: Governance Risk Management and Compliance
Category: Resource Management
Category: Cloud Computing Architecture
Category: Security Architecture Review
Category: External Auditing
Category: Cyber Governance
Category: Governance

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cloud Management
Category: Cloud Infrastructure
Category: System Monitoring
Category: Managed Services
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Amazon Web Services

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Category: Multi-Tenant Cloud Environments
Category: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Category: User Accounts
Category: Cyber Security Policies
Category: Security Management
Category: Security Controls
Category: Cloud Management
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: User Provisioning
Category: Incident Management

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Category: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Category: Solution Design
Category: User Provisioning
Category: User Accounts
Category: Multi-Factor Authentication
Category: Authentications
Category: Single Sign-On (SSO)
Category: Authorization (Computing)
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: Amazon Web Services
Lab - Troubleshooting - IAM Access Issues

Lab - Troubleshooting - IAM Access Issues

Course 6, 1 hour

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: Authorization (Computing)
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Category: Authentications

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Zero Trust Network Access
Category: Hybrid Cloud Computing
Category: Network Architecture
Category: Network Security
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Network Planning And Design
Category: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Category: Enterprise Architecture
Category: IT Security Architecture
Category: Network Infrastructure
Category: Multi-Cloud
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Cloud Computing Architecture
Category: Virtual Networking
Category: Security Controls
Category: Infrastructure Security

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Firewall
Category: Virtual Networking
Category: Cloud Computing Architecture
Category: Security Controls
Category: Event Monitoring
Category: System Configuration
Category: Network Security
Category: Network Architecture
Category: Network Model
Category: Network Monitoring
Category: Public Cloud
Category: Network Planning And Design

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cyber Operations
Category: Threat Detection
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: System Configuration
Category: Firewall
Category: Event Monitoring
Category: Security Controls
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Cyber Threat Hunting
Category: Cloud Deployment
Category: Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Category: Network Monitoring
Category: Network Security

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Category: Web Applications
Category: Firewall
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Security Controls
Category: Infrastructure Security
AWS Security Eng. - Edge Security

AWS Security Eng. - Edge Security

Course 11, 1 hour

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cloud Security
Category: Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks
Category: Threat Management
Category: Infrastructure Security
Category: IT Security Architecture
Category: Firewall
Category: Cloud Computing Architecture
Category: Application Programming Interface (API)
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Security Engineering
Category: Security Controls
AWS Security Eng. - Application and Compute Security

AWS Security Eng. - Application and Compute Security

Course 12, 1 hour

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Application Security
Category: Hardening
Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Category: Infrastructure Security
Category: Vulnerability Scanning
Category: Systems Administration
Category: Security Controls
Category: Containerization
Category: Authorization (Computing)
Category: Remote Access Systems
Category: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: DevSecOps
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: Secure Coding
AWS Security Eng. - Protecting and Encrypting Data

AWS Security Eng. - Protecting and Encrypting Data

Course 13, 1 hour

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Encryption
Category: Key Management
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Security Controls
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Cryptographic Protocols
Category: Endpoint Security
Category: Data Migration
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Cryptography
Category: Public Key Infrastructure
Category: Data Storage Technologies
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: Data Security
Lab - Using Data Encryption in AWS

Lab - Using Data Encryption in AWS

Course 14, 2 hours

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Key Management
Category: Data Security
Category: Authorization (Computing)
Category: Encryption
Category: Security Controls
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Category: System Configuration
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Amazon S3
AWS Security Eng. - Detection and Response Services

AWS Security Eng. - Detection and Response Services

Course 15, 1 hour

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Security Engineering
Category: Threat Detection
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Data Lakes
Category: System Configuration
Category: System Implementation
Category: Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Category: System Monitoring
Category: Event Monitoring
Category: IT Security Architecture
Category: Threat Management
Category: Threat Modeling
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Incident Response
Lab - Security Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

Lab - Security Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

Course 16, 1 hour

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Amazon CloudWatch
Category: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Category: Linux Administration
Category: System Monitoring
Category: Event Monitoring
Category: Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Threat Detection
Category: Brute-force attacks
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Cloud Management

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Computer Security Incident Management
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Incident Response
Category: Scenario Testing
Category: IT Automation
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Security Controls
Category: Threat Management
Category: Incident Management
Category: Threat Detection
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Digital Forensics
Lab - AWS Security Incident Response in Practice

Lab - AWS Security Incident Response in Practice

Course 18, 1 hour

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Incident Response
Category: Cloud Management
Category: Digital Forensics
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Security Controls
Category: Data Persistence
Category: Computer Security Incident Management
Category: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Incident Management

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