Skip to Content
AWS Security Cookbook
book

AWS Security Cookbook

by Heartin Kanikathottu
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
13h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from AWS Security Cookbook

How it works...

IAM is the AWS service that helps us manage the identity of users within AWS in order to verify their identity (authentication) and their permissions to AWS services (authorization).

IAM has four core concepts:

  • Users: A user can be created in IAM and given the necessary permissions to access AWS resources.
  • Groups: Users can be added to groups. Permissions can now be given to groups instead of individual users. This is a recommended best practice.
  • Policies: Policies are JSON documents that define the permissions for users or groups.
  • Roles: Roles are generally used for giving users temporary permissions to access an AWS service. For example, we can attach a role with S3 permissions to an EC2 service.

The IAM dashboard provides ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

AWS Cloud Security

AWS Cloud Security

Michael Shannon
AWS Security

AWS Security

Dylan Shields
AWS Cookbook

AWS Cookbook

John Culkin, Mike Zazon

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781838826253