AWS Discovery Day: Securing Your AWS Cloud

Overview

About the Discovery Day

AWS Discovery Day: Securing Your AWS Cloud introduces participants to the foundational principles of securing workloads in the AWS Cloud. The session explores how security works within AWS, including what AWS secures on your behalf and what remains your responsibility.

Through focused learning and live console demonstrations, participants will explore essential AWS security practices, from protecting the root user and managing identities to securing data, networks, and cloud resources.

The session also introduces logging, monitoring, incident response, and security automation, helping participants understand how to build secure and compliant workloads from the beginning and identify practical next steps to strengthen their security posture.

What you will learn/Key takeaways

• Understand AWS Cloud fundamentals and account structure
• Learn best practices for protecting the AWS root user
• Understand the AWS Shared Responsibility Model
• Build a strong identity foundation using IAM
• Apply least-privilege access principles
• Understand encryption using KMS and ACM
• Explore security using VPC, security groups, NACLs, and AWS WAF
• Learn how automation can reduce manual access to data