Introduction
Get an overview of what we'll learn in the Identity and Access Management section.
As more and more infrastructure transitions to the cloud, ensuring robust access security becomes increasingly important. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) provides a comprehensive solution for controlling access to AWS services and resources securely. It allows organizations to grant entities access to AWS accounts and ensure that the access is limited to only the required resources and services. This not only minimizes the risk of unauthorized access and potential security breaches but also allows us to be compliant with the required security standards.
In this section, we'll discuss the IAM services that we can use to implement the required secure access in our account. We'll also discuss some other services that assist us in managing the AWS accounts.
We’ll start off by discussing the most important component of IAM, IAM policy. After discussing the IAM policy in detail, we’ll move on to discussing the IAM entities that are used to provide the requesting entities access to the AWS account. We’ll then discuss the functionality of a service that is not directly part of AWS IAM but is used for identity and access management for federated users, Amazon Cognito. After that, we'll cycle back to AWS IAM and learn about another one of its tools, Access Analyzer. After that, we'll discuss advanced policies that are used to implement fine-grained access controls and security policies in AWS IAM. We'll end this section by learning about the services that we can use to manage multiple AWS accounts. These services include both IAM tools and additional services.
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