Secure your workloads and applications in the AWS cloud.

Build your organization’s security skills with AWS Training and Certification. Give your teams the confidence as they pursue transformative innovations and move more of their daily workloads.

  • Learn how to efficiently use AWS security services to stay secure in the AWS Cloud.
  • Gain expertise required for incident response, logging and monitoring, infrastructure security, identity and access management as well as data protection strategies.
  • Enable your team with the skills to improve your security operations in 2026.

With a wide range of training options for every learning style and experience level, AWS provides everything you need to create and implement a comprehensive training program, bridge your skills gap, and help keep your data and applications safe along the way.

Overview

Learn how to efficiently use AWS security services to stay secure in the AWS cloud.

This AWS-SEC: Security Engineering on AWS course:

  • demonstrates how to efficiently use AWS security services to stay secure in the AWS Cloud
  • focuses on the security practices that AWS recommends for enhancing the security of your data and systems in the cloud
  • prepares learners for the AWS Certified Security – Specialty certification course
  • highlights the security features of AWS key services including compute, storage, networking, and database services.

Attendees will also learn how to leverage AWS services and tools for automation, continuous monitoring and logging, and responding to security incidents.

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.

Skills Covered

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Assimilate and leverage the AWS shared security responsibility model
  • Architect and build AWS application infrastructures that are protected against the most common security threats
  • Protect data at rest and in transit with encryption
  • Apply security checks and analyses in an automated and reproducible manner
  • Configure authentication for resources and applications in the AWS Cloud
  • Gain insight into events by capturing, monitoring, processing, and analyzing logs
  • Identify and mitigate incoming threats against applications and data
  • Perform security assessments to ensure that common vulnerabilities are patched and security best practices are applied

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

Target Audience

This course is designed for security engineers, security architects, cloud architects, and cloud operators working across all global segments who would like to learn more about how to use AWS security services including AWS Control Tower, AWS Secrets Manager, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon GuardDuty, and more, to take their security operations to the next level and to stay secure in the AWS Cloud.

Job roles:

  • Security engineers
  • Security architects
  • Information security

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Security on AWS

  • Security in the AWS cloud
  • AWS Shared Responsibility Model
  • Incident response overview
  • DevOps with Security Engineering

Module 2: Identifying Entry Points on AWS

  • Identify the different ways to access the AWS platform
  • Understanding IAM policies
  • IAM Permissions Boundary
  • IAM Access Analyzer
  • Multi-factor authentication
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • Lab 01: Cross-account access

Module 3: Security Considerations: Web Application Environments

  • Threats in a three-tier architecture
  • Common threats: user access
  • Common threats: data access
  • AWS Trusted Advisor

Module 4: Application Security

  • Amazon Machine Images
  • Amazon Inspector
  • AWS Systems Manager
  • Lab 02: Using AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Inspector

Module 5: Data Security

  • Data protection strategies
  • Encryption on AWS
  • Protecting data at rest with Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB
  • Protecting archived data with Amazon S3 Glacier
  • Amazon S3 Access Analyzer
  • Amazon S3 Access Points

Module 6: Securing Network Communications

  • Amazon VPC security considerations
  • Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring
  • Responding to compromised instances
  • Elastic Load Balancing
  • AWS Certificate Manager

Module 7: Monitoring and Collecting Logs on AWS

  • Amazon CloudWatch and CloudWatch Logs
  • AWS Config
  • Amazon Macie
  • Amazon VPC Flow Logs
  • Amazon S3 Server Access Logs
  • ELB Access Logs
  • Lab 03: Monitor and Respond with AWS Config

Module 8: Processing Logs on AWS

  • Amazon Kinesis
  • Amazon Athena
  • Lab 04: Web Server Log Analysis

Module 9: Security Considerations: Hybrid Environments

  • AWS Site-to-Site and Client VPN connections
  • AWS Direct Connect
  • AWS Transit Gateway

Module 10: Out-Of-Region Protection

  • Amazon Route 53
  • AWS WAF
  • Amazon CloudFront
  • AWS Shield
  • AWS Firewall Manager
  • DDoS mitigation on AWS

Module 11: Security Considerations: Serverless Environments

  • Amazon Cognito
  • Amazon API Gateway
  • AWS Lambda

Module 12: Threat Detection and Investigation

  • Amazon GuardDuty
  • AWS Security Hub
  • Amazon Detective

Module 13: Secrets Management on AWS

  • AWS KMS
  • AWS CloudHSM
  • AWS Secrets Manager
  • Lab 05: Using AWS KMS

Module 14: Automation and Security by Design

  • AWS CloudFormation
  • AWS Service Catalog
  • Lab 06: Security automation on AWS with AWS Service Catalog

Module 15: Account Management and Provisioning on AWS

  • AWS Organizations
  • AWS Control Tower
  • AWS SSO
  • AWS Directory Service
  • Lab 07: Federated Access with ADFS

Dates & Locations

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July 14, 2026 - July 16, 2026

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July 14, 2026 - July 16, 2026

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October 20, 2026 - October 22, 2026

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October 20, 2026 - October 22, 2026

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Trainocate exam and cert

Exam & Certification

AWS Certified Security – Specialty  (SCS-C03)

Validate your knowledge and advanced technical skills in securing workloads and architectures on AWS.

This credential helps organizations identify and develop talent with critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives. Earning the AWS Certified Security – Specialty certification validates expertise in securing data and workloads in the AWS Cloud.

Training & Certification Guide

The exam has the following content domains and weightings:

  • Content Domain 1: Detection (16% of scored content)
  • Content Domain 2: Incident Response (14% of scored content)
  • Content Domain 3: Infrastructure Security (18% of scored content)
  • Content Domain 4: Identity and Access Management (20% of scored content)
  • Content Domain 5: Data Protection (18% of scored content)
  • Content Domain 6: Security Foundations and Governance (14% of scored content)

The AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam is intended for individuals who have a responsibility to secure cloud solutions. The exam validates a candidate’s ability to effectively demonstrate knowledge about securing AWS products and services.

The exam also validates a candidate’s ability to complete the following tasks:

  • Apply specialized data classifications and AWS data protection mechanisms.
  • Implement data-encryption methods and AWS encryption mechanisms.
  • Implement AWS mechanisms to follow secure internet protocols.
  • Use AWS security services and features to ensure secure production environments.
  • Make decisions that account for tradeoffs between cost, security, and deployment complexity to meet a set of application requirements.
  • Understand security operations and risks.

The target candidate should have the following AWS knowledge:

  • The AWS shared responsibility model and its application
  • Managing identity at scale
  • Multi-account governance
  • Managing software supply chain risks
  • Security incident prevention and response strategies
  • Vulnerability management in the cloud
  • Developing firewall rules at scale for layers 3–7
  • Incident root cause analysis
  • Experience responding to an audit
  • Logging and monitoring strategies
  • Data encryption methodologies, both at-rest and in-transit

65 questions; either multiple choice or multiple response

AWS-ADVARC: Advanced Architecting on AWS

In this AWS-ADVARC: Advanced Architecting on AWS training course, each module presents a scenario with an architectural challenge to be solved. You will examine available AWS services and features as solutions to the problem. You will gain insights by participating in problem-based discussions and learning about the AWS services that you could apply to meet the challenges.

AWS-AWABP: Advanced AWS Well-Architected Best Practices

This interactive AWS-AWABP: Advanced AWS Well-Architected Best Practices course provides a deep dive into Amazon Web Services (AWS) best practices to help you perform effective and efficient AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews. The course covers the phases of a review, including how to prepare, run, and get guidance after a review has been performed. Attendees should have familiarity with the AWS concepts, terminology, services, and tools that are covered in the intermediate, 200-levelAWS Well-Architected Best Practices.

AWS-DEVOPS: DevOps Engineering on AWS

The AWS-DEVOPS: DevOps Engineering on AWS training course teaches you how to use the combination of DevOps cultural philosophies, practices, and tools to increase your organization’s ability to develop, deliver, and maintain applications and services at high velocity on AWS. This course covers Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), infrastructure as code, microservices, monitoring and logging, and communication and collaboration.

AWS-COA: Cloud Operations on AWS

This AWS-COA: Cloud Operations on AWS course teaches systems operators and anyone performing cloud operations functions how to manage and operate automatable and repeatable deployments of networks and systems on AWS. You will learn about cloud operations functions, such as installing, configuring, automating, monitoring, securing, maintaining, and troubleshooting these services, networks, and systems.

Validate Your Skills with AWS Certification

Certification is the one of the best ways to validate your cloud skills. And AWS Certifications are industry-recognized credentials. And AWS Certifications, in particular, are industry-recognized credentials that showcase your expertise in the AWS Cloud. This e-book provides an overview of what you need to know to earn an AWS Certification, acting as your guide throughout the process. It will help you determine which AWS Certifications are right for you and show you how to prepare for and obtain them.

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Organizations are struggling to find data scientists and developers with machine learning experience. Learn how you can become the machine learning problem-solver others look to. In this eBook, we’ll review the promise of machine learning and how innovations in training and certification give developers and data scientists an advantage by equipping them with the skills to help their organizations achieve success.

Innovate Securely and Confidently with AWS Training and Certification

Across nearly every industry, organizations are discovering a greater need to empower every employee with cloud security skills. This e-book will guide you on how AWS Training and Certification can help your organization innovate securely and confidently by offering flexible in-demand digital training that can help your teams build security skills quickly and comprehensively.

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It’s time to push the limits of innovation by building your database of skills. The power of data has grown at an exponential rate over the last several years. It has created a new universe of possibilities for applications, services and beyond. In this e-book, we’ll introduce you to effective methods of building your database skills. We’ll help you start your journey and propel you into this new universe of data empowering you to explore and innovate throughout the ever-growing expanse of purpose-built database possibilities.

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Develop skills in designing, building and managing modern applications. As companies look to become more agile so they can innovate and respond to change faster and innovate rapidly, this inadvertently requires a different kind of application than what was common years ago. This e-book gives you insights on the importance of training and skilling to accelerate your company’s digital transformation.

Accelerate Migration with Comprehensive Cloud Skills Enablement

As benefits of the cloud like speed, scale and modernization have become more widely understood, the conversation at many organizations has shifted from “why cloud?” to “which cloud?” Thousands of companies, including GE, The Coca-Cola Company, BP, Enel, Samsung, News Corp, and 21st Century Fox, have found their answer with AWS.

AWS also helps provide the answer to another critical questions in your cloud journey: “How to get to the cloud in the fastest, most efficient way possible?” A transformative migration is now within your reach. Now you can learn how you can migrate with your confidence by building your team’s cloud skills with AWS Training and certification by downloading this e-book.

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It does not matter you’re new to AWS Cloud services, seeking to update your cloud skills, or exploring a cloud-first strategy for your organization it’s time to make a plan. Download this free E-Book and learn how AWS Training can help you better understand how the AWS Cloud works and how you can troubleshoot with confidence and skill

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Frequently Asked Questions

Build credibility

  • Skills validation – Earning AWS Certified Security – Specialty shows your expertise in incident response, logging and monitoring, infrastructure security, identity and access management, and data protection on the AWS platform.
  • Confidence – Feel confident you can design and implement cloud security solutions on AWS. The AWS Certified Security – Specialty certification validates that you meet the bar set by experts in AWS security solutions.
  • Best practices – Showcase your expertise in best practices for securing your data and workloads in the AWS Cloud.

Discover more opportunities

  • Recognition – With a digital badge that verifies your achievement, AWS Certified Security – Specialty indicates expertise in securing data and workloads in the AWS Cloud.
  • Differentiate your skill set – Differentiate your AWS security expertise with a credential that represents your ability to understand security risks, secure your production environment, and detect and automate responses to security alerts.

AWS Classroom Training is developed by the experts at AWS to empower learners at all levels. AWS Authorized Instructors lead
immersive, hands-on classes that equip your teams with skills to innovate confidently and deliver results for your organization.*

Choose official AWS Training

Your teams will receive official AWS Training, learning fromcurriculum designed by the experts at AWS. Our courses are based on real-world customer scenarios and our teams’ firsthand knowledge of how and where customers need help building in the AWS Cloud. AWS Classroom Training is the only training authored by AWS and delivered by expert AWS Authorized Instructors.

Come with questions

leave with answers Instructors with deep technical knowledge will help your teams break down complex topics, address specific areas of concern, and provide constructive feedback in real time.

Get hands-on

Your teams will practice new skills in a real AWS environment. They’ll learn AWS on AWS, with opportunities to complete hands-on labs while using AWS services via the AWS Management Console and AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).

Improve bottom-line results

Cloud skills training can lead to faster time to market, increased profitability, lower business risk, and higher employee engagement.3 AWS Classroom Training helps you achieve these benefits and more—quickly and comprehensively—by enabling your teams to develop essential, in-demand cloud skills in a supportive and interactive environment. As your teams develop cloud fluency, AWS Classroom Training can also lead to more effective collaboration and faster innovation through a shared understanding.

Attract, develop, and retain top talent

The cost of reskilling an existing employee is estimated to be 23% cheaper than hiring a new employee.4 It can help you retain your employees by investing in their professional growth with training that can propel their careers. And it empowers your staff to leverage the foundational skills and knowledge they already have as they transition to cloud roles.

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-C03). 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.

The AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam validates technical skills and experience in securing and hardening workloads and architectures on the AWS platform.

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.

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