Skip to Content
Implementing Identity Management on AWS
book

Implementing Identity Management on AWS

by Jon Lehtinen
October 2021
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
10h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Implementing Identity Management on AWS

Chapter 4: Access Management, Policies, and Permissions

The Access Management model of AWS is based on policies. At a high level, we can use these policies to determine what an AWS identity object or resource can do to or with a resource or service within an AWS account. Of course, this quickly becomes very complicated once we must apply and manage policies across the multiple places where they may have been applied. We may also need to customize the existing access policies within an AWS account, or even create new policies from scratch to accommodate our own use cases. This chapter does not represent a complete compendium of knowledge regarding the complexities of access management in AWS, but it will introduce you to the foundational concepts ...

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 for System Administrators

AWS for System Administrators

Prashant Lakhera
AWS Security Cookbook

AWS Security Cookbook

Heartin Kanikathottu

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781800562288