Chapter 8Identity and Access Management
WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER
- Introduction to the basic concepts of Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Creating users, groups, and roles
- Securing the root account with multifactor authentication
- Setting up a password rotation policy
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that allows you to securely manage users, configure security credentials, set up password rotation policies, configure multifactor authentication, and control which AWS resources users can access. Using IAM, you can control who can access your AWS resources, what resources they can access, and what they can do with those resources.
IAM is commonly accessed using the AWS management console, or the AWS command-line tools. In ...
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