Configuration, Compliance, and Auditing with AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail

This curriculum is designed to help you learn more about some of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) core platforms to help address compliance at scale. In this course, you will be introduced to AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail. You will see how the AWS Config service can help you assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. You will also review how you can use AWS Config rules to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations to establish compliance controls. In addition, you will learn how CloudTrail enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account. With CloudTrail, you can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure. Additional modules will expand this curriculum in the future, with deep dives into other AWS Config and CloudTrail features.      • Course level: Intermediate      • Duration: 20 minutes

Activities

This course includes videos.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:      • Understand AWS Config features and capabilities      • Understand AWS Config use cases and best strategies for implementation      • Understand how to implement AWS Config Rules      • Understand CloudTrail features and capabilities      • Identify best practices for CloudTrail

Intended audience

This course is intended for:      • DevOps and SysOps professionals      • Compliance and regulatory experts      • Security professionals      • Solutions architects

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:      • An understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts

Course outline

     • Module 1: Introduction to AWS Config – Video      • Module 2 : Introduction to AWS CloudTrail – Video