AWS Security Essentials: Foundational Skills to Secure Cloud Workloads and Protect AWS Environments.

  • Why get trained: Learn core AWS security concepts including identity and access management, data protection, encryption and network security based on the AWS Shared Responsibility Model.
  • Why it matters: Cloud security skills help teams protect data, control access and maintain secure AWS environments while meeting compliance and operational requirements.
  • Who should attend: IT professionals, security practitioners and cloud users who need to understand and apply security best practices within AWS environments.

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Overview

Learn about the fundamental AWS Cloud security concepts, including AWS access control, data encryption methods, and how network access to your AWS infrastructure can be secured.

This AWS-SE: AWS Security Essentials course covers fundamental AWS cloud security concepts, including AWS access control, data encryption methods, and how network access to your AWS infrastructure can be secured. We will address your security responsibilities in the AWS cloud and provide a brief introduction to the different security-oriented AWS services available.

Trainocate is an AWS Authorized Training Partner as well as the AWS Global Training Partner of the Year 2022-2025 is trusted by AWS to offer, deliver, and/or incorporate official AWS Training, including classroom and digital offerings.

Whether your team prefers to learn from live instructors, on-demand courses, or both, ATPs offer a breadth of AWS Training options for learners of all levels.

 

Skills Covered

  • Assimilate Identify security benefits and responsibilities of using the AWS Cloud
  • Describe the access control and management features of AWS
  • Explain the available methods to encrypting data at rest and in transit
  • Describe how to secure network access to your AWS resources
  • Determine which AWS services can be used for monitoring and incident response

Prerequisites

  • Working knowledge of IT security practices and infrastructure concepts
  • Familiarity with cloud computing concepts

Target Audience

  • Security IT business-level professionals interested in cloud security practices
  • Security professionals with minimal to no working knowledge of AWS

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Security on AWS

  • Security design principles in the AWS Cloud
  • AWS Shared Responsibility Model

Module 2: Security of the Cloud

  • AWS Global Infrastructure
  • Data Center Security
  • Compliance and Governance

Module 3: Security IN the Cloud – Part 1

  • Identity and Access Management
  • Data Protection
  • Lab 01 – Introduction to Security Policies

Module 4: Security IN the Cloud – Part 2

  • Securing your infrastructure
  • Monitoring and detective controls
  • Lab 02 – Securing VPC Resources with Security Groups

Module 5: Security IN the Cloud – Part 3

  • DDoS mitigation
  • Incident response essentials
  • Lab 03 – Automating Incident Response with AWS Config and AWS Lambda

Module 6: Course Wrap Up

  • AWS Well-Architected tool overview

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July 13, 2026 - July 13, 2026

Location: Kuala Lumpur
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RM 1800

July 13, 2026 - July 13, 2026

Location: Online
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October 19, 2026 - October 19, 2026

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October 19, 2026 - October 19, 2026

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Exam & Certification

There is no exam directly associated with this course. However, AWS offers an extensive portfolio of industry-recognized certifications that can help you stand out as a tech professional in 2026 and beyond. Achieving AWS credentials is one of the most effective ways to validate your skills and accelerate your career.

With our expert-led training, you’ll be prepared to:

  • Master in-demand capabilities across Cloud, Data & AI, and Cybersecurity — areas driving global digital transformation.
  • Prove your expertise with a globally respected credential recognized by employers worldwide.
  • Advance your career by enhancing your credibility, increasing your earning potential, and opening doors to new opportunities.

Explore our top AWS Certifications for 2026 and start building the skills that matter today.

 

Training & Certification Guide

Validate your technical skills and expertise with an industry-recognized credential and grow your career.

The AWS Certified Security – Specialty is intended for individuals who perform a security role with at least two years of hands-on experience securing AWS workloads.

  • An understanding of specialized data classifications and AWS data protection mechanisms
  • An understanding of data encryption methods and AWS mechanisms to implement them
  • An understanding of secure Internet protocols and AWS mechanisms to implement them
  • A working knowledge of AWS security services and features of services to provide a secure production environment
  • Competency gained from two or more years of production deployment experience using AWS security services and features
  • Ability to make tradeoff decisions with regard to cost, security, and deployment complexity given a set of application requirements
  • An understanding of security operations and risk

  • At least two years of hands-on experience securing AWS workloads
  • Security controls for workloads on AWS
  • A minimum of five years of IT security experience designing and implementing security solutions

65 questions; either multiple choice or multiple response.

170 minutes to complete the exam.

300 USD (Practice exam: 40 USD)

Frequently Asked Questions

AWS Certified Security – Specialty is intended for individuals who perform a security role and have at least two years of hands-on experience securing AWS workloads. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:

  • Five years of IT security experience in designing and implementing security solutions and at least two years of hands-on experience in securing AWS workloads
  • Working knowledge of AWS security services and features of services to provide a secure production environment and an understanding of security operations and risks
  • Knowledge of the AWS shared responsibility model and its application; security controls for workloads on AWS; logging and monitoring strategies; cloud security threat models; patch management and security automation; ways to enhance AWS security services with third-party tools and services; and disaster recovery controls, including BCP and backups, encryption, access control, and data retention
  • Understanding of specialized data classifications and AWS data protection mechanisms, data-encryption methods and AWS mechanisms to implement them, and secure internet protocols and AWS mechanisms to implement them
  • Ability to make tradeoff decisions with regard to cost, security, and deployment complexity to meet a set of application requirements

To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam (SCS-C01). The exam features a combination of two question formats: multiple choice and multiple response. Additional information, such as the exam content outline and passing score, is in the exam guide.

AWS Training and Certification helps you build and validate your cloud skills so you can get more out of the cloud. We offer both digital and classroom training—delivered virtually and in person—so you can choose to learn online at your own pace or learn best practices from an instructor. AWS Training and Certification offers prescriptive learning paths to get you started quickly. Progress along the path from foundational to intermediate training, and then dive deeper with advanced training to continue your learning.

Trainocate Malaysia offers technical role-based learning paths for architects, developers, and operations staff. We also offer a Cloud Practitioner learning path for business decision makers who want to learn AWS Cloud fundamentals. Additional solutions-based learning paths focus on topics like machine learning, storage, data analytics, and security.

You will learn directly from AWS experts who have domain experience and access to the latest AWS Cloud products, services, and teaching methods. This training will increase your credibility as someone who uses and makes decisions about cloud services. Building clouds skills through high-quality digital training can also support the credibility of your entire organization. When your technologists and strategists are well trained in cloud skills, they can more easily project confidence about your cloud strategy.

AWS Certification helps learners build credibility and confidence by validating their cloud expertise with an industry-recognized credential and organizations identify skilled professionals to lead cloud initiatives using AWS. Just like learning music theory enables you to jam, a strong grounding in cloud principles empowers you to creatively explore cloud options.
Having the skills and insight to act upon your creativity and inspiration is essential to discovering new business opportunities in the cloud and helping your organization innovate. You’ll be able to experiment with AWS Cloud services, quickly testing products and implementing strategies to determine what best delivers your organizational goals.

You don’t need to be a technologist to benefit from learning cloud basics. By learning the AWS Cloud, you’ll gain first-hand knowledge of how the cloud can support greater efficiency, flexibility, and opportunity for both you and your organization.

You’ll also gain confidence in your ability to consider cloud options, so you’re better informed when making business and management decisions involving the cloud. By investing in training, organizations can accelerate cloud adoption, achieve business objectives sooner, and overcome concerns related to cloud adoption. Also, comprehensively trained organizations are nearly three times more likely to use the cloud to jump-start innovation. They’re also nearly four times more likely to meet cloud ROI requirements, and over four times more likely to overcome operational and performance concerns.

Learn about each AWS Certification in our AWS Training and Certification blog post. To answer that question, you’ll need to consider your role and honestly evaluate your existing level of experience and knowledge across various areas of technical and cloud expertise. AWS offers four categories of certifications, three of which correspond to the amount of experience you have with the AWS Cloud. For Specialty certifications, the amount of recommended experience varies by certification.

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