SC-500 is free on Kindle this weekend (23–25 October)

The Kindle edition of Ultra Transcenders SC-500: Implementing End-to-End Security Controls for Cloud and AI Workloads is free on Amazon this weekend, from Friday 23 October to Sunday 25 October 2026.

Amazon runs free promotions from midnight to midnight Pacific time, so in the UK it’s free from about 8am on Friday until 7am on Monday 26 October (the UK clocks go back an hour on Sunday). Use the buttons below to get it from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com. Once you’ve downloaded it, it’s yours to keep.

What’s in the book

SC-500 is the exam for the Microsoft Certified: Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate certification. It replaces AZ-500 and adds securing AI workloads. Like its predecessor, it rewards knowing which control enforces a requirement, and why, rather than where a setting sits in the portal. The book is built around that:

• Sixteen chapters by technology: Entra ID (PIM, Conditional Access and authentication), application and managed identities, Key Vault, governance, storage, databases, network security, private and hybrid access, Azure Firewall, servers, containers, App Service and API Management, AI workloads and agents, Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel and Security Copilot.
• 102 common-trap callouts that name the answers that look right but aren’t.
• 12 diagrams, including the Key Vault control and data planes, Virtual Network Manager admin rule order and the layers of AI workload security.
• A glossary of 800+ terms, each linked to Microsoft Learn, with the same terms explained free online.

Try a section first

If you’d like to see the style before downloading, several sections are free to read on this site:

• Privileged Identity Management: eligible vs active assignments and role settings
• Key Vault access: control plane vs data plane, RBAC vs access policies
• Choosing a storage authorisation method: keys, SAS types and Microsoft Entra ID
• Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rules and NSGs

Coming from AZ-500?

SC-500 replaces AZ-500, so if you started preparing for the old exam, the identity, network, compute and data security chapters will feel familiar. Securing AI workloads and agents is new, and the book gives it a full chapter.

If the book helps, a short review on Amazon makes a real difference to an independent series. Thank you, and good luck with the exam.

Tony Rough