This course is part of the AWS AI Practitioner - Foundational Professional Certificate
Security, Compliance and Governance for AI Solutions
Learn how to keep AI solutions secure, responsible, compliant, and well governed across the full development lifecycle.

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Security, Compliance and Governance for AI Solutions
Strengthen AI solutions with responsible governance
AI systems need more than strong technical performance.
They also need clear controls around security, privacy, fairness, transparency, and accountability. On this course, you’ll explore the principles and AWS practices that help organisations use artificial intelligence responsibly and with greater confidence.
You’ll examine how security, compliance, and governance fit across the AI lifecycle, from the data used to train models through to deployment and ongoing monitoring.
Protect data and AI systems
Explore the security considerations involved in AI and machine learning solutions, including data privacy, access controls, and the protection of sensitive information.
You’ll consider how AWS tools and security practices can help reduce risk across AI workloads.
Navigate responsible and explainable AI
Examine fairness, bias, transparency, explainability, and human-centred design. You’ll consider why these principles matter when AI influences decisions and how responsible AI practices can support more trustworthy outcomes.
Apply compliance and governance principles
Explore how governance frameworks, policies, monitoring, and oversight help organisations manage AI responsibly.
You’ll consider how compliance requirements can influence the way models and AI-powered services are designed, deployed, and maintained.
By the end, you’ll have a stronger understanding of the controls and practices that support secure, compliant, and responsible AI solutions on AWS, preparing you to consolidate your learning through AWS AI Practitioner exam preparation.
Syllabus
Week 1
Security, Compliance, Governance for AI Solutions and Essentials of Prompt Engineering
Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a comprehensive set of tools, services, and partner solutions to build and secure artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
Securing AI Systems
In the context of AI and generative AI, there are a number of security tasks, such as threat detection, vulnerability management, infrastructure protection, prompt injection, and data encryption.
Essentials of Prompt Engineering
In this topic, you will be introduced to the fundamentals of crafting effective prompts. You will gain an understanding of how to refine and optimise prompts for a range of use cases.
Prompt Misuses and Risks
This activity will provide you with an understanding of how FMs handle prompt misuses or risks.
Introduction to the Amazon Bedrock Console
In this activity, you will use Amazon Bedrock to enable model access, test prompts in text and image playgrounds, adjust inference parameters, and explore foundation model documentation.
Weekly Wrap up
Consolidate your learning through a knowledge check, discussion, and additional resources. Review key concepts, engage in reflection, explore further learning materials, and access support when needed.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Explain core responsible AI concepts, including fairness, bias, transparency, and explainability.
- Identify key security considerations, data privacy risks, and access controls within AI workloads.
- Describe AWS tools and security practices used to protect sensitive data and AI systems.
- Summarise governance frameworks, policies, and compliance requirements across the AI lifecycle.
- Discuss the role of human-centered design, oversight, and continuous monitoring in maintaining trustworthy AI.
Who is the course for?
This course is for learners with foundational AI and AWS knowledge who want to understand security, privacy, responsible AI, compliance, and governance. It is suitable for technical, data, risk, and business professionals working with AI solutions.
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