AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) Cert Guide

Chapter 7. AWS Access Management Capabilities

This chapter covers the following subjects:

• Identity and Access Management: Where would your AWS architecture be without the ability to secure it? It would be in a very, very bad place. IAM is a key ingredient for AWS security, and this section of the chapter ensures you understand the components of IAM in AWS and how the parts work together to help secure your environment.

• Best Practices with IAM: While AWS makes IAM pretty simple, you should always follow the generally accepted best practices. This part of the chapter provides these best practices to you.

You need your users and your fellow engineers to be able to authenticate against AWS and then have their access strictly defined. AWS Identity ...