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      • Topics
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        • Tutorial: Building an intelligent search solution
    • Amazon Lex
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      • Topics
        • How It Works
        • Using Lambda Functions
        • Deploying Bots
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        • Bot Examples
    • Amazon Lookout for Vision
      • Common
      • Topics
        • Setting up Amazon Lookout for Vision
        • Creating your model
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        • Using your model on an edge device
        • Managing your resources
        • Example code and datasets
    • AWS Panorama
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      • Topics
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    • Amazon Personalize
      • Common
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        • Filtering results
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        • Voices in Amazon Polly
        • Neural TTS
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        • Amazon Polly for Windows (SAPI)
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        • Configuring AS2
        • Security
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        • What is IAM?
        • Tutorials
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      • Topics
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        • Amazon Cognito user pools
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        • Workforce identities
        • Multi-account permissions
        • Application assignments
        • Resiliency design and Regional behavior
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        • Working with shared resources
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        • Create and manage secrets
        • Retrieve secrets
        • Rotate secrets
        • Security in Secrets Manager
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  • Cryptography & PKI
    • AWS Cryptographic Services Overview
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        • AWS cryptographic services and tools
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        • Managing clusters
        • Managing backups
        • Integrating third-party applications
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        • AWS Key Management Service
        • Managing keys
        • Authentication and access control
        • Special-purpose keys
        • Quotas
        • How AWS services use AWS KMS
        • Programming the AWS KMS API
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        • What is AWS Private CA?
        • Security
      • Topics
        • Planning a private CA
        • CA administration
        • Certificate administration
        • Using the API (Java examples)
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        • Understanding permissions
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        • Automate tasks
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        • Aggregating AWS Health events
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        • Resource groups
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        • What is AWS Direct Connect?
      • Topics
        • Using the AWS Direct Connect Resiliency Toolkit to get started
        • Connections
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        • Working with Direct Connect gateways
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        • What is Route 53 Resolver?
        • Monitoring
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      • Topics
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        • Routing internet traffic to your AWS resources
        • Creating health checks and configuring DNS failover
  • Application Integration
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        • Working with other services
        • Troubleshooting
      • Topics
        • How Step Functions works
        • Workflow Studio
        • Developer tools
        • Best practices
        • Sample projects for Step Functions
        • Logging and monitoring
  • Developer Tools
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        • Security
      • Topics
        • Setting up
        • Working with environments
        • Working with the IDE
        • Working with other AWS services
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        • AWS Toolkit
        • Tutorials and samples
        • Advanced topics
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        • Security
      • Topics
        • Working with repositories
        • Working with upstream repositories
        • Working with packages
        • Working with domains
        • Using npm
        • Using Python
        • Using Maven
        • Using NuGet
        • Using CodeArtifact with CodeBuild
        • Working with VPC endpoints
    • AWS CodeDeploy
      • Common
        • What is CodeDeploy?
        • Getting started
        • Tutorials
        • Security
        • Troubleshooting
      • Topics
        • Product and service integrations
        • Working with instances
        • Working with application revisions
        • Working with deployments
        • Reference
    • AWS CodeStar
      • Common
      • Topics
        • Getting Started with AWS CodeStar
        • Working with Projects
        • Working with Teams
        • Working with Your AWS CodeStar User Profile
    • Porting Assistant for .NET
      • Common
      • Topics
        • Get Started
        • Porting Assistant for .NET Visual Studio IDE extension
    • AWS X-Ray
      • Common
        • Security
      • Topics
        • X-Ray console
        • X-Ray API
        • Sample application
        • X-Ray daemon
        • Integrating with AWS services
        • Working with Go
        • Working with Node.js
        • Working with Python
        • Working with .NET
  • Media Services
    • Amazon Elastic Transcoder
      • Common
      • Topics
        • Working with Pipelines
        • Working with Jobs
        • Working with Presets
        • Securing Your Content
        • API Reference
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
    • AWS IoT Device Defender
      • Common
        • Security
        • Monitoring AWS IoT
        • Troubleshooting
      • Topics
        • Getting started with AWS IoT Core
        • Connecting to AWS IoT Core
        • Managing devices with AWS IoT
        • Tagging your AWS IoT resources
        • Rules
        • Device Shadow service
        • Jobs
        • AWS IoT secure tunneling
        • Device provisioning
        • Fleet indexing
        • MQTT-based file delivery
        • AWS IoT Device Defender
        • Device Advisor
        • Event messages
        • AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN
        • Event notifications for AWS IoT Wireless
    • AWS IoT Device Management
      • Common
        • Security
        • Monitoring AWS IoT
        • Troubleshooting
      • Topics
        • Getting started with AWS IoT Core
        • Connecting to AWS IoT Core
        • Managing devices with AWS IoT
        • Tagging your AWS IoT resources
        • Rules
        • Device Shadow service
        • Jobs
        • AWS IoT secure tunneling
        • Device provisioning
        • Fleet indexing
        • MQTT-based file delivery
        • AWS IoT Device Defender
        • Device Advisor
        • Event messages
        • AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN
        • Event notifications for AWS IoT Wireless
    • AWS IoT Events
      • Common
        • Tutorials
        • Monitoring with alarms
        • Troubleshooting
      • Topics
        • Supported actions
        • Expressions
    • AWS IoT Greengrass
      • Common
        • What is AWS IoT Greengrass?
        • Tutorials
        • Security
      • Topics
        • Setting up Greengrass core devices
        • Components
        • Logging and monitoring
        • Run Lambda functions
        • Communicate with the Greengrass nucleus, other components, and AWS IoT Core
        • Interact with local IoT devices
        • Interact with device shadows
        • Manage data streams
        • Perform machine learning inference
        • Manage core devices with AWS Systems Manager
        • Using AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass V2
    • AWS IoT SiteWise
      • Common
        • Getting started
        • Tutorials
        • Monitoring data with alarms
        • Monitoring data with web portals
        • Security
        • Troubleshooting
      • Topics
        • Ingesting data to AWS IoT SiteWise
        • Using AWS IoT SiteWise gateways
        • Modeling industrial assets
        • Managing data ingestion
        • Interacting with other services
        • Logging and monitoring
        • Endpoints and quotas
  • Business Applications
    • Amazon Chime SDK
      • Common
      • Topics
        • Using the Amazon Chime SDK
        • Using Amazon Chime SDK meetings
        • Using Amazon Chime SDK messaging
  • Analytics
    • Amazon CloudSearch
      • Common
        • Getting Started
      • Topics
        • What Is Amazon CloudSearch?
        • Creating and Managing Search Domains
        • Controlling How Data is Indexed
        • Uploading and Indexing Data
        • Searching Your Data
        • Querying For More Information
        • Controlling Search Results
        • Amazon CloudSearch API Reference
    • AWS Data Exchange
      • Common
        • Security
      • Topics
        • Subscribing to data products
        • Providing data products
        • AWS Marketplace Catalog API
    • AWS Data Pipeline
      • Common
        • Troubleshooting
      • Topics
        • AWS Data Pipeline Concepts
        • Working with Pipelines
        • Pipeline Expressions and Functions
        • Pipeline Object Reference
        • Working with Task Runner
    • Amazon OpenSearch Service
      • Common
        • Getting started
        • Monitoring domains
        • Security
        • Monitoring data
        • Tutorials
      • Topics
        • Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
        • Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion
        • Creating and managing domains
        • Sample code
        • Indexing data
        • Searching data
        • Managing indexes
        • Best practices
        • General reference
    • AWS Glue
      • Common
        • Getting started
      • Topics
        • How it works
        • Data Catalog and crawlers
        • Job development (interactive sessions)
        • ETL jobs
        • Orchestration
        • AWS Glue API
        • Troubleshooting AWS Glue
    • Amazon MSK
      • Common
        • Getting started
        • Security
        • Monitoring a cluster
      • Topics
        • How it works
        • Configuration
        • MSK Connect
        • Connecting to an MSK cluster
        • Apache Kafka versions
  • Robotics
    • AWS RoboMaker
      • Common
        • Security
      • Topics
  • Blockchain
    • Amazon Managed Blockchain
      • Common
        • Getting Started
      • Topics
        • Work with Hyperledger Fabric
  • Game Development
    • Amazon GameLift
      • Common
      • Topics
        • Setting up
        • Preparing games for Amazon GameLift
        • Managing hosting resources
        • Viewing game data
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  2. AWS Cryptographic Services Overview
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AWS cryptographic services and tools

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  • Note Cryptography relies extensively on mathematics. This includes basic function theory, permutations, probability, information theory, complexity theory, number theory, and more. The math underlying cryptography is beyond the scope of this documentation, but printed and online sources are readily available.

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