| Day | Task | Start Date | Completion Date | Reference Material |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | - Review basic IAM concepts - Learn advanced IAM Policy (JSON structure, Effect, Action, Resource, Condition) - Create custom policies and attach to user/group | 13/10/2025 | 13/10/2025 | AWS Journey |
| 3 | - Introduce AWS Key Management Service (KMS) - Create a Customer Managed Key (CMK) and test file encryption/decryption - Apply KMS to encrypt S3 buckets or EBS volumes | 14/10/2025 | 14/10/2025 | AWS Journey |
| 4 | - Get familiar with AWS Secrets Manager - Create a secret to store database credentials - Write a small Lambda script to read secrets from Secrets Manager | 15/10/2025 | 15/10/2025 | AWS Journey |
| 5 | - Explore the AWS Billing Dashboard and Cost Explorer - View costs by service, region and time - Configure Cost Anomaly Detection | 16/10/2025 | 16/10/2025 | AWS Journey |
| 6 | - Create AWS Budgets and configure email alerts - Write a weekly cost summary and propose optimizations (stop unused EC2, cleanup EBS, reduce log retention, etc.) - Week 6 summary | 17/10/2025 | 17/10/2025 | AWS Journey |
Mastered creating and applying advanced IAM Policies to control resource access.
Understood KMS encryption mechanisms and applied them to S3 and EBS.
Deployed Secrets Manager to protect sensitive information, accessible from Lambda.
Monitored costs and configured alerts with Cost Explorer and Budgets.
Learned how to analyze costs, recommend optimizations, and maintain security in parallel.