This course focuses on understanding and implementing Amazon Web Services (AWS) security best practices for monitoring and alerting and provides information on logging network, user, and API traffic, as well as log analytics and auditing your AWS environment.

• Course level: Intermediate
• Duration: 2 hours

Activities

This course includes text, interactive activities, and knowledge checks.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Configure service and application logging
• Analyze logs, findings, and metrics centrally
• Automate response to events as much as possible

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Individuals responsible for professional services implementation and delivery at APN consulting partner organizations
• Security Architects, Security Engineers, and Systems Operators
• IT consultants designing, architecting, and maintaining applications and solutions to run securely in the AWS cloud

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, participants should have completed the following:

• AWS Security Fundamentals
• AWS Security Essentials
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification or a strong background in information security concepts, techniques, and paradigms in the areas of networking, operating systems, data encryption, and operational controls

Course outline

Module 1: Monitoring and Alerting

• Introduction to Monitoring and Alerting
• Logging Network Traffic
• Log Analytics
• Visibility with Amazon CloudWatch
• Enhanced Monitoring and Alerting
• Auditing your AWS Environment