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Proactive Security in Your AWS CI/CD Pipeline
2 Courses
4 Labs
2 Hours
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Learn how to build proactive, automated security controls directly into your AWS delivery pipelines. This path is for engineers who want to detect risky changes before deployment and apply scalable governance patterns without slowing down delivery.
Content in this path
Evolution
Build the mindset and patterns needed to bring proactive security into your AWS delivery workflows. This section guides you from the core concepts behind automated governance to practical, repeatable controls you can apply in real CI/CD pipelines. You'll learn how simple validation stages, lightweight checks, and clear feedback loops can prevent risky changes long before deployment, giving you the confidence to scale securely without slowing down delivery.
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What You'll Learn
- 1. How to design and insert governance validation stages into AWS CI/CD pipelines
- 2. How to use automated tools like cfn-lint and IAM policy validation to detect risky configurations
- 3. How governance patterns scale across teams and can be extended to new control types
Prerequisites
- You should be comfortable navigating AWS, understand basic CI/CD concepts, and have working familiarity with IAM, CloudFormation, and the AWS CLI. This path assumes you can read cloud resource definitions and follow a simple pipeline workflow, but it does not require advanced security engineering experience.
Related topics
- Cloud Governance
- AWS CI/CD (CodePipeline
- CodeBuild)
- Infrastructure as Code Validation (IAM policies
- CloudFormation linting)
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