IAM Flashcards
Control Access to your AWS services and resources
Identity Access Management - IAM
Secures your cloud resources by defining who has access, what they can do
IAM
Root users, Individual users, Groups, Roles are considered
Identities
Controls resources with policies and permissions boundaries
Access
Presenting identity to provide verification
Authentication
Determines which services and resources the authenticated identity has access to
Authorization
Entities that represent the person or application needing to access your AWS resources
Users
Created when you first open your AWS account
Root User
Created and used for everyday tasks, applications can be these
Individual users
Giving the user the minimum access required to get the job done
principle of least privilege
Helps apply common access controls to all group members
Groups
Create administrative tasks such as creating new users
Administrators
Use compute and database services to build applications
Developers
Run budget and usage reports
Analysts