This course is designed for large, or scaling organizations. It focuses on automating cloud governance to enhance security. This includes retiring manual processes in account management, budget enforcement, and security operations and compliance. These areas allow for governance without inhibiting agility, speed, or innovation. They also allow for decision makers with the visibility, control, and governance necessary to protect sensitive data and systems.
AWS Security Governance at Scale
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level
Some related experience required
7 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
What you'll learn
Configure AWS Organizations to create a multi-account environment
Federate access using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Identity Center
Centralize logging using AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config
Skills you'll gain
- Configuration Management
- Continuous Monitoring
- Security Controls
- Budget Management
- Governance
- Cloud Management
- Cloud Security
- Governance Risk Management and Compliance
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Automation
- Cyber Governance
- Compliance Management
- Risk Control
- Data Governance
- Identity and Access Management
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Threat Detection
- Account Management
- Amazon Web Services
- Multi-Tenant Cloud Environments
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October 2025
Assessments
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Taught in English
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There are 6 modules in this course
This course is designed for large, or scaling organizations. It focuses on automating cloud governance to enhance security. This includes retiring manual processes in account management, budget enforcement, and security operations and compliance. These areas allow for governance without inhibiting agility, speed, or innovation. They also allow for decision makers with the visibility, control, and governance necessary to protect sensitive data and systems.
What's included
1 reading3 plugins
This module covers the governance at scale focal points.
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This module explores multi-account strategy, guidance, and architectures. It covers how to implement governance with AWS Control Tower and use cases for a governance at scale solutions.
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1 plugin
This module explains how goals must be met while also enforcing the security and compliance requirements of an organization.
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This module focuses on the operations aspect of governance at scale. In the previous module you learned learned about preventive controls, but how do you ensure that those resources stay properly configured, secured, and compliant? Can you identify and detect undesired changes on their configuration and compliance status? Once detected, what can you do about it?
What's included
2 app items1 plugin
In this course, you explored balancing control and agility in your environment, and ensuring compliance, including operational capabilities and cost management in AWS. Next, take the Post-Assessment which is designed to measure your knowledge of the topics learned throughout this course.
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