AWS Security Fundamentals: A Practical Guide to AWS IAM

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

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

This course includes

24 Quizzes

60 Code Snippets

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.

What You'll Learn

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

Course Content

Introduction

Get familiar with AWS IAM, access control policies, and security best practices.

AWS IAM

Access Control Basics

Unpack the core of IAM access control concepts, elements, and CloudTrail logging in AWS.

Where IAM controls access Access elements: Principal Access elements: Resource, Action, and Metadata CloudTrail logging

User Management using IAM

Cloud Lab

IAM Policies

Break apart IAM policy elements, types, conditions, and explore the IAM policy editor.

Filters: Principal, Resource, and Action Filters: Condition AWS IAM Policy types: identity-based and resource-based AWS IAM Policy types: SCP, SP, and PB AWS IAM policy editor

Request Evaluation Flow and Examples

Grasp the fundamentals of AWS IAM's request evaluation flow and access control mechanisms.

Evaluation flow Allow access Deny access Using conditions Restricted resources

Role Management Using Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Cloud Lab

How to Secure an AWS Account

Solve problems in securing AWS accounts by managing IAM settings, RBAC, and automating security checks.

How to Secure an AWS Account Security as an AWS administrator Security as a developer

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Focus on IAM’s critical role in securing AWS accounts through precise access control.

Appendix

1 Lesson

Build on essential AWS security and IAM concepts through the glossary.

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