AWS Certified Security: Specialty overview

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AWS Certified Security: Specialty

Overview

The AWS Certified Security: Specialty is geared towards individuals who focus primarily on security within AWS. I found that as a solutions architect, it is extremely important to have security at the forefront of my mind while building. Building an environment secure initially reduces the risk of failing compliance and potential exploitation at production launch.

Exam components

I found that an exam-taker should focus heavily on the following resources:

Exam components (AWS Documentation)

AWS KMS

AWS Key Management Service

AWS IAM

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Amazon EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

AWS Cloudtrail

AWS Cloudtrail

Amazon CloudWatch Events

Amazon CloudWatch Events

Amazon Inspector

Amazon Inspector

AWS WAF

AWS Web Application Firewall

AWS Shield

AWS Shield

AWS Config

AWS Config

AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations

Training Resources

The following training resources helped prepare for the above components:

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