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Learning how to secure AWS
Notes on cloud security controls, identity management, and protecting AWS workloads.
May 2026
My journey learning AWS
After using AWS every single day in my job in a SOC I believed I was ready to take the AWS incident response exam, it's completely free and only takes 1 hour 30 mins, so I figured why not!
I used my skills I attained working in my current cloud SOC role to get a perfect score on the exam, it involved really interesting activities such as; cloud forensics, malicious IAM roles and using NACLS to block malicious IP ranges. I genuinely had fun doing this exam and think its definitely worth doing.