Analytics for the Internet of Things (IoT)

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

This is where users are defined (IAM user), access key pairs created, and security roles defined (IAM role). IAM roles are a key concept, as they allow a simple and secure way for your instances and other AWS services to communicate. You will assign these on creation of a resource, and it will then natively have permissions to the services defined in the role. This happens without storing any access keys on the server instance. This means that even if the server is compromised, the villains will not have the keys to the kingdom.