COD 253 – Creating Secure AWS Cloud Applications

Course Overview

This course examines the security vulnerabilities, threats, and mitigations for AWS cloud computing services and provides best practices for securing Web applications by leveraging AWS platform security features.

Topics include:

• AWS security features: Key Management Service (KMS), Hardware Security Module (HSM), Identity and Access Management (IAM), and CloudWatch
• How to leverage security features built into Common Amazon Cloud services such as Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Glacier, Relational Database Service (RDS), DynamoDB, Elastic MapReduce (EMR), and Amazon Machine Images (AMI)