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AWS Administration Cookbook
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AWS Administration Cookbook

by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
394 pages
10h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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This pretty much covers the basics of how to create IAM groups and users and assign policies to them. Here are some of the IAM tips and gotchas we've run into over the years:

  • Users can exist in more than one group. Use this to your advantage.
  • Groups, however, cannot exist within other groups.
  • Users can have more than one set of API keys. This is necessary when they need to perform key rotation.
  • You can (and should) define a strong password policy for your IAM users.
  • The PowerUserAccess policy is good but does not allow IAM access. At first this might not seem to be a problem; however, if you are bound by this policy you will encounter issues when running CloudFormation stacks that create IAM roles for EC2 instances, for example. ...
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ISBN: 9781787127630