Build Cloud Operations Skills Using the New Getting Started with AWS Config Training

Are you responsible for your company’s compliance? Do you want to make sure that your AWS resources are aligned to your company’s desired configurations? And make sure how to automate the remediations of noncompliant resources? Do you see an opportunity for your organization to automate its continuous compliance at scale? If you need to understand how to implement your controls and control objectives in your AWS cloud environment, then understanding how to get started using AWS Config is a great place to start.

AWS Config continually monitors and records your AWS resource configurations. This can help you automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations. AWS Config lets you examine detailed resource configuration histories and determine your overall compliance against the configurations specified in your internal guidelines. These capabilities can help with compliance auditing, security analysis, resource changing tracking, and troubleshooting. AWS Config integrates easily with other native AWS compliance and auditing services to help you build a compliance solution that fits your organizational requirements.

AWS Training and Certification along with the Cloud Operations Technical Field Community is proud to announce the launch of Getting Started with AWS Config.

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About the course

Getting Started with AWS Config is a foundational course designed for compliance and security professionals who are operating in the AWS Cloud and IT workers who want to increase their Cloud Operations knowledge. This course is ideal for anyone who wants to learn how to maintain compliance in their day-to-day AWS operations.

In this course, you’ll learn the technical concepts of AWS Config, as well as gain an understanding of how to implement AWS Config in a real-world scenario using best practices. The course includes 1.5 hours of material designed to help you build your knowledge to what is needed to get started by implementing AWS Config using best practices.

Through a mixture of presentations, graphics, and interactive activities curated by AWS Cloud Operations subject matter experts, you’ll learn about topics such as compliance, configuration history, multi-account/multi-region data aggregation, and more. Whether you follow along during the virtual demos, or just sit back and relax, you’ll gain an understanding of how to get started with AWS Config.

After completing this course, you’ll be able to:

• Understand AWS Config’s use cases.
  Leverage AWS Config’s features and capabilities.
• Use AWS Config in a real-world scenario.
• Understand AWS Config’s cost structure.
• Recognize the benefits of AWS Config.
• Interact with AWS Config via the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line  Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS SDK.
• Implement Industry compliance frameworks.
• Understand how AWS Config integrates with other AWS services.
• Remediate noncompliant resources.
• Differentiate between AWS Config rules and conformance packs.

Improve your Cloud Operations skills on AWS

This course can help you build the necessary skills to be successful in the governance, security, and compliance of your AWS resources. AWS Config has a foundational role in establishing effective Cloud Operations on AWS, and helping your organization maintain compliance and control of your resources. Find further training to help improve your AWS skills in the AWS Skill Builder course catalog.

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