Amazon Web Services
AWS Security Governance at Scale
Amazon Web Services

AWS Security Governance at Scale

Alex G.

Instructor: Alex G.

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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
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

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October 2025

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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.

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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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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?

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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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1 assignment2 plugins

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Alex G.
Amazon Web Services
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