CHAPTER 5
Identity and Access Management and Security on AWS
In this chapter, you will
• Be introduced to IAM
• Learn about different types of security credentials
• Understand users, groups, and roles
• Learn some IAM best practices
• Take a look at AWS platform compliance
• Understand the shared security model
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) allows you to control individual (users) and group access to all the AWS resources in a secured way. Using IAM, you can define what each user can access in the AWS cloud. For example, you can specify which users have administrator access, which users have read-only access, which users can access certain AWS services, and so on. Using the IAM service, you can choose the services ...
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