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.

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• 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.