About this course (please watch)

Hi, I’m Christophe Limpalair, Founder & Trainer at Cybr. This course is going to be a collection of 9+ years’ worth of AWS experience, as well as my research, notes, cheat sheets, labs, and everything else I could muster up to help you pass your exam.

Huge thanks to Sonrai Security for sponsoring this course!

I was able to make this entire course free thanks to our sponsor, Sonrai Security. They’re supporting free, high-quality cloud security education, and they made it possible for me to publish all of these lessons openly.

I’ll share more about their Cloud Permissions Firewall and Just-In-Time access throughout the course, but in the meantime you can check them out here!

What’s free and what’s not

This course has:

• Video & text lessons (with full transcripts) (this is all free thanks to Sonrai)
• Hands-On Labs (a few are free but most are premium)
• Quizzes (a few are free but most are premium)
• Practice exams (premium)
• Study tips and tricks (free)
• Cheat sheets (free)

The video and text lessons are available for free. The labs, quizzes, and practice exams are available to Cybr Premium Members. There are a few exceptions since we have a few free labs and quizzes sprinkled throughout the syllabus, but most will require a membership (either monthly or yearly) to access.

FAQs

Some frequently asked questions:

• Do I need a premium membership to pass my exam? Nope! We designed as much free content as possible to help you pass the exam without having to have a Cybr Premium membership. With that said, you might still want to consider a membership to access our premium version of this course. This Premium Edition is designed for professionals who want to learn AWS security in practice, not just theory. It will also give you a lot more practice with quizzes and practice exams.
• Why can’t I mark a lesson as complete? Lessons that have videos require that you watch the video in order to be able to mark them as complete. If the “Mark Complete” button is missing, that’s why!
• What prerequisites do I need? We highly recommend having at least 1 year of experience working in AWS. This is not an entry level certification, and that’s important to keep in mind. If you’re not already at least a little bit familiar with the AWS CLI, what a VPC is, what an AWS Organization is, etc…then we do not recommend enrolling in this course right now. Instead, go for the AWS Cloud Practitioner or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate first, and then come back to this. Our Intro to AWS Security course is also a great starting point.

Let’s get started!

If you know anyone else studying for this cert or interested in passing it, don’t forget to share with them!

Otherwise, let’s get AWS Security Specialty Certified! See you in the course.