📋 Tip and Summary Table

🗝️ Key Takeaway

To protect data at rest in AWS, use KMS with Customer-Managed Keys (CMKs) for full control over encryption, access policies, and audit logging. For the exam, focus on how CMKs integrate with AWS services, how IAM and key policies work together, and the implications of enabling encryption during resource creation.

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Hands-On Learning for Real-World Identity and Access Management and Customer In

Course Purpose

This course equips Cloud Security Architects with the practical knowledge and hands-on skills needed to design, implement, and govern both workforce (IAM) and customer (CIAM) identity solutions within a modern cloud-native architecture.

You’ll explore IAM and CIAM through a live AWS environment that powers a production-grade e-commerce application. The environment includes federation with Okta, integration with Amazon Cognito, and service-to-service access management across multiple AWS services.

Why This Matters

In modern cloud infrastructure, identity is the first control point—the gateway to everything. Mismanaged identities are a top cloud security risk, and strong IAM/CIAM strategies are essential to implementing Zero Trust, least privilege, and secure customer experiences.

As AI agents, generative tools, and distributed services become core to the cloud operating model, Cloud Security Architects must govern human, service, and AI identities while also leveraging AI to enhance identity visibility, automation, and incident response.

What You'll Explore

You’ll gain deep, hands-on experience with:

How You'll Learn

This course is exploration-driven: you’ll work directly in a live AWS environment powering an e-commerce application, integrating IAM concepts into real architectural components such as:

You’ll validate how policies behave in practice, explore real-world IAM events in CloudTrail, and test federation and customer login flows end to end.

Who This Is For

This course is for:

You should already be familiar with core AWS services and cloud networking. No prior experience with Cognito or Okta is required—those will be introduced in context.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will:

Delve into an AWS Powered E-commerce application's architecture, design, service configurations, and best practices. A precursor to the advanced observable access to the live AWS environment powering the application, offering a sneak peek into the deeper exploration ahead.

This guide introduces the architectural principles, design strategies, and essential components needed to create a robust e-commerce application on AWS, offering insights into building, deploying, and managing production-grade applications.

Who Does It Help?

This content is designed to help beginners in cloud and AWS, cloud engineers, cloud security architects, solution architects, DevOps engineers, developers, and IT professionals who want to learn about designing, deploying, and managing production-grade applications on AWS. Using an e-commerce application as a reference, the guide provides a practical context for understanding the principles and tools needed for robust application development.

Lesson Learning Paths

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