AWS Certified Security: Specialty overview
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:
AWS KMS
AWS IAM
Amazon EC2
AWS Cloudtrail
Amazon CloudWatch Events
AWS Inspector
AWS WAF
AWS Shield & Shield Advanced
AWS Config
AWS Organizations
Exam components (AWS Documentation)
AWS KMS
AWS Key Management Service
- Product documentation
- Development documentation
- Security documentation
- Quotas (Limits)
- Pricing
- SLA
- FAQ
AWS IAM
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
- Product documentation
- Development documentation
- Security documentation
- Quotas (Limits)
- Pricing
- SLA
- FAQ
AWS Cloudtrail
AWS Cloudtrail
- Product documentation
- Development documentation
- Security documentation
- Quotas (Limits)
- Pricing
- SLA
- FAQ
Amazon CloudWatch Events
Amazon CloudWatch Events
Amazon Inspector
Amazon Inspector
- Product documentation
- Development documentation
- Security documentation
- Quotas (Limits)
- Pricing
- SLA
- FAQ
AWS WAF
AWS Web Application Firewall
- Product documentation
- Development documentation
- Security documentation
- Quotas (Limits)
- Pricing
- SLA
- FAQ
AWS Shield
AWS Shield
- Product documentation
- Development documentation
- Security documentation
- Quotas (Limits)
- Pricing
- SLA
- FAQ
AWS Config
AWS Config
- Product documentation
- Development documentation
- Security documentation
- Quotas (Limits)
- Pricing
- SLA
- FAQ
AWS Organizations
AWS Organizations
Training Resources
The following training resources helped prepare for the above components: