AWS Cloud Security Fundamentals

AWS Cloud Security Fundamentals is a self-paced, beginner-level course on securing AWS environments, with a focus on identity management and secure development pipelines. Learners work with core IAM concepts, including users, groups, roles, RBAC and ABAC, along with secrets and encryption key management, logging, and auditing. The course is hands-on: each topic starts with foundational theory, then learners build a secure-by-default cloud environment using Terraform and secure CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Gitleaks for leaked-credential detection and Trivy for container and dependency scanning.

• Who This Course is For
  • Beginners building cloud security skills from the ground up
  • Basic command line and general cloud familiarity helps but is not required
  • Learners who want theory paired with hands-on practice
• What to Expect
  • Self-paced format with theory introduced before each hands-on topic
  • Hands-on work with IAM users, groups, roles, RBAC and ABAC
  • Securing CI/CD pipelines with Gitleaks and Trivy, and deploying infrastructure with Terraform
• What You'll Achieve
  • Design fine-grained IAM policies following the principle of least privilege
  • Manage secrets and encryption keys, and configure logging and auditing
  • Integrate automated security scanning into CI/CD and deploy secure-by-default architecture