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Auditing AWS Environments for Security and Best Practices

AWS is the most popular cloud hosting infrastructure in the world. This course will cover security and best practices for the most commonly used services, including IAM, VPC, EC2, EBS, and S3.

Chad Smith - Pluralsight course - Auditing AWS Environments for Security and Best Practices
by Chad Smith

What you'll learn

Taking ownership of an Amazon Web Services account can be a daunting task. In this course, Auditing AWS for Security and Best Practices, you'll learn how to audit your AWS services, including command-line tools and scripts to help automate your effort. First, you will learn how to look for security vulnerabilities. Next, you'll learn how to take an inventory of your resources. Finally, you'll learn about best practices for these services and how to apply them. When you're finished with this course, you will have learned the basics needed to implement security and architectural best practices in five of the most popular AWS offerings: IAM, VPC, EC2, EBS, and S3. Software required: AWS CLI

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Chad Smith - Pluralsight course - Auditing AWS Environments for Security and Best Practices
Chad Smith

Chad is an AWS Architect and certified AWS trainer. He has 20+ years background with Unix, networking, and corporate IT from small business to enterprise environments.

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