Chapter 7Designing for Security and Legal Compliance

Identity and Access Management and Related Access Control Services

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) service is designed to allow you to specify what operations specific users can perform on particular resources. This is also described as specifying “who gets to do what on which resources.” IAM is the recommended way to control access in most cases. In some limited cases, such as in a development environment, the older basic roles system may be used. More on that to follow.

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