Who this course is for:

• Project managers involved in planning application deployments.
• AWS solution architects who want to ensure they have covered all important aspects.
• Application developers and administrators responsible for maintaining infrastructure health.
• Individuals who want to gain a safe introduction to core AWS tools, specifically Amazon EC2.

What you’ll learn: 

• Recognize the threat categories that Amazon EC2 instances face and understand the potential consequences of an attack.
• Utilize a range of security tools provided by AWS to safeguard Amazon EC2 instances.
• Configure instance security groups, IAM roles, and VPC designs to achieve optimal protection.
• Integrate general server security best practices and the AWS Shared Responsibility Model into your infrastructure design.

Requirements: 

• Basic familiarity with using Amazon EC2 instances is required; no additional prerequisite knowledge is needed for this course.
• Comfort with the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) will be beneficial, and familiarity with Linux is advantageous.

Feeling concerned that you lack the knowledge to adequately protect your workloads running on Amazon EC2? Confused by the numerous components involved in ensuring comprehensive security, such as security groups, ACLs, IAM roles and policies, and VPC configurations? It is crucial to ensure that you do not overlook any important details, but rest assured that you can handle it!

The ability to provision and launch fully functional cloud servers within minutes, without upfront costs, is a remarkable advancement that would have seemed unimaginable just a decade ago. However, this convenience does not absolve administrators of their primary responsibility: safeguarding infrastructure from attacks. As Amazon EC2 makes it easier to deploy more applications, we become increasingly exposed to a multitude of hostile and daunting threats.

Whether you are accountable for Amazon EC2 instance workloads or simply contemplating the possibility, it is vital to comprehend the defensive skills and tools available to you and how to utilize them effectively. This Securing Amazon EC2 Instances: AWS Elastic Compute Cloud course will provide an overview of the current threat landscape and general best practices for server security. I will introduce you to the significant security measures that AWS has implemented on our behalf and guide you on making the most of their security groups, IAM roles, and VPC design architectures. Additionally, we will explore AWS networking tools, including VPNs and instance connectivity, that help us combat malicious actors.

To ensure you can follow along with the practical demonstrations, I have included all the necessary resources for your own laptop or workstation. By successfully completing the videos, reading the content, engaging in test-yourself quizzes, and practicing the demos, you will develop a strong understanding of the actions you can and should take to protect your application instances.

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Our Promise to You

By the end of this course, you will have learned securing Amazon EC2 Instances.

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