Learning AWS Day by Day — Day 30 — IAM

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Day 30:

IAM (Identity Access Management)

IAM is a AWS resource that helps in managing the access to AWS resources. It helps in creating and controlling the access to specified users and limiting the access to a defined people. IAM also helps in managing users, groups, permissions, policies, roles and access keys.

Benefits:

Set permissions and have fine grained access control

Manage workloads and work force identities

Use temporary credentials to access resources as required

Least privilege …

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