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Cloud Security Analyst Path

People moving into cloud security and compliance, bringing security or IT awareness into AWS and Azure environments. A practical route that pairs cloud fundamentals with security and governance.

5 stepsHands-on labsCapstone + portfolioA named role
$1,199or 3 payments of $439, by arrangement how payment worksStart this path Not sure? Talk to us

Assessed work, a capstone and a verified credential

What the path adds

Membership covers foundation reading. A path is where the work is assessed and the credential is earned.

Marked work
Your written submissions are assessed against a rubric, not ticked off.
Cumulative assessment
One exam across the whole path, not a quiz per course.
Capstone
A final piece of real work, reviewed.
Portfolio artefact
Something you can put in front of a hiring manager.
Verified credential
A Professional Path Credential with a public verification page.
By the end, you can

What this path makes you able to do.

  • Explain cloud architecture and the shared-responsibility model across AWS and Azure
  • Configure identity, posture (CSPM), encryption and logging to secure a cloud environment
  • Map NIST, CMMC, FedRAMP and ISO 27001 controls onto AWS and Azure
A guided journey, not a pile of courses

The 5-step path.

  1. 1

    Cloud Computing Foundations

    How the cloud works, vendor-neutral

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  2. 2

    AWS Cloud Practitioner Prep

    Core AWS, the entry credential

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  3. 3

    Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Prep

    Core Azure (AZ-900)

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  4. 4

    Cloud Security & Governance

    Secure and govern the cloud

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  5. Capstone: secure a cloud environment

    Posture review, IAM, control mapping, evidence pack

Practice, not just reading

Hands-on lab work.

Every step above is backed by real practice in Atlas, our simulated workbench. You do the work an employer would hand you, and you keep the artifacts as portfolio evidence.

Cloud Security

Cloud Security Review: Vantage Retail

Cloud breaches are overwhelmingly misconfiguration, not exotic attacks: public storage, over-broad permissions, forgotten test environments. This lab is the review that finds those before someone else does, and the guardrails that stop them recurring.

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Every path is backed by

Hands-on labs. A final exam & capstone. A real role.

You finish with a portfolio you can show, a cumulative exam, and the skills to land the Cloud Security Analyst role.

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