How to Write Policies, Control Access, and Secure an AWS Account

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This course is about how AWS IAM works and how to write policies to control access in an AWS account. In this course, you will learn how AWS APIs work, explore different parts of the requests made to the APIs and elaborates on how access is determined. Additionally, you will dive into how to configure access inside AWS by describing the policy structure and the 5 policy types AWS supports.

Further, you will become familiar with how the elements in the request and the policies fit together. You will also determine whether the operation is allowed or denied by demonstrating through several step-by-step realistic examples that show exactly how IAM evaluates access, thus providing templates for how to apply these protections to AWS environments.

Lastly, this course offers you some practical tips on how to secure an account both as an administrator and as a developer. It explains the best practices and the usual pitfalls of AWS security.

AWS Security Fundamentals: A Practical Guide to AWS IAM

AWS provides a surprisingly useful visual editor to write policies. We have the option to use it when using the IAM console to add or edit policies. It provides a form to specify each element in the policy and gives only the list of elements that make sense in the given context. 

First, we need to select the service:

Learn about the visual editor AWS provides to write policies.

Introduction

Access Control Basics

User Management using IAM

IAM Policies

Request Evaluation Flow and Examples

Role Management Using Identity and Access Management (IAM)

How to Secure an AWS Account

Conclusion

Appendix

AWS IAM policy editor