AWS Audit Manager helps you continuously audit your AWS usage and simplify risk and compliance assessment against regulations, internal control frameworks, and industry standards. Audit Manager automates evidence collection to reduce the manual effort of several cross-functional teams that audit activities often require. It can also help you to scale your auditing capabilities in the cloud as your business grows.
In this course, you will learn the benefits, typical use cases, and technical concepts of Audit Manager. You will have an opportunity to try the service through demonstrations on the AWS Management Console.
• Course level: Fundamental
• Duration: 1.5 hours
Activities
This course includes presentations, graphics, and interactive activities.
Course objectives
In this course, you will learn to:
• Understand how Audit Manager works.
• Familiarize yourself with the technical concepts of Audit Manager.
• List typical use cases for Audit Manager.
• Specify what it would take to implement Audit Manager in a real-world scenario.
• Recognize the benefits of Audit Manager.
• Explain the cost structure of Audit Manager.
• Show how to use Audit Manager from the AWS Management Console and using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).
Intended audience
This course is intended for:
• IT auditors
• IT risk and compliance professionals
• Security engineers supporting audit requests
• Control/business owners of AWS Cloud workloads
• DevOps administrators
• Cloud administrators
Prerequisites
None
Course outline
• Introduction to Audit Manager
• Architecture and Use Cases
• How Do I Set Up Audit Manager?
• How Do I Create an Assessment?
• How Do I Review Assessment Findings with Audit Manager?
• How Do I Use AWS CLI with Audit Manager?
• How Do I Use AWS CloudFormation with Audit Manager?
• How Do I Use Audit Manager with a Programming Language?
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